2021 Turkish Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

5 comments on “2021 Turkish Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres”

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   Jonathan (@jvg312)
   10th October 2021, 21:05

   Very helpful – can see pretty clearly Lewis was starting to lose his tires and if he got what he wanted and stayed out he would lose what Ocon and Ricciardo did at the end – he would have been behind Norris and maybe even Sainz.

   In hindsight where MB got it wrong was they needed to be even earlier; it really looks like the ideal strategy was to stop when Lando did on lap 34, he would have come out w clear track especially as Perez was holding him up – likely would have been 2 MBs rather than RBs on the podium.
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      I have an opinion
      10th October 2021, 22:29

      The “slicktermediate” as it has been described elsewhere really is a fascinating tyre. It took 20-25 laps to reach peak performance in the first stint when the track was wetter / cooler, and about 15 in the second stint for drivers pushing. Additionally, the performance was transiently worse initially in the second stint (for about 8 laps) while the tyres were losing tread. Bottas managed his tyres really well in the second stint, while Hamilton may not have had that luxury in chasing Max. Clearly, pitting on lap 37 for mediums was not the way to go, but could Hamilton have done better with a late stop on softs?
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   Nell (@imabouttogoham)
   11th October 2021, 3:10

   I doubt Hamilton would have been able to hold off Perez, Leclerc, Gasly, maybe Norris and even Sainz if he didn’t pit. The mistake wasn’t pitting, it was pitting too late, and that’s on Hamilton.

   My guess is he would’ve been losing at least 3.5 seconds to that quintet in the final 5 laps or so.
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   Esploratore (@esploratore1)
   11th October 2021, 20:18

   https://en.mclarenf-1.com/2021/gp/s8118/lap_times/821-482/

   Here’s the lap times, this is a verstappen-hamilton comparison I made, before stopping he was losing 8, 4, 9, 5 tenths, then 1,6 sec, then he pitted, he lost around 17 sec out of that (which is not a lot), he could’ve continued losing 2 sec per lap, so more or less same result as he had, with the difference he could’ve defended.

   I don’t see how you can assume tyres would start dropping off, drivers manage tyres differently and his times were a lot better than leclerc’s and ocon’s.
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      rodewulf (@rodewulf)
      14th October 2021, 0:22

      @esploratore1
      What really matters here is the clearly worsening trend on his lap times, similar to Ocon’s. And the Alpine driver who followed a non-stop strategy was actually in the verge of a tyre failure.

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