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Yes, in the end the 3 stop strategy clearly was the better one for most cars since the tyres just did not hold on enough and it’s not as easy to keep cars behind with older tyres as we have seen in past years. […]

Yeah, that is a fair point @thegianthogweed

And it shows. He seems to have to do a lot of work driving the car while Leclerc seems far more comfortable with it.

I agree with the others here that while they certainly are a lot of work (I tried transcribing some in the past for the site in the early days) it’s great to read them back @keithcollantine, they give a unique […]

Yes, Lando did indeed get his laptime deleted because of track limits (by a cm or so) @webtel, which meat he did not get into Q3.

But the reality is that while he remains faster than Ricciardo more or less all […]

Not sure why Albon got only a 3 – he was faster than his teammate, but suffered that damage and that probably meant he did a 4 stopper. Schumacher also a bit of a question mark for me, since he did a solid job in […]

It would be dependent on Mercedes now being able to quickly improve another 3 tenths to half a second to be able to get on the pace of the top 2 teams though @macleod. Not sure I see that happening earlier than in […]

The article mentions “documents” @bernasaurus, so I presume it’s exactly stuff like his passport/ID card and drivers licences that would have been in the bag.

Wow. At least the track action was good in this weekend full of setbacks then Claire!

Glad to read Magnussen has changed his views on what happened after watching it from the outside. Yes, in the heat of the moment people say stuff, partly defensive talk to hope the stewards look into it too, but […]

I think what happened with the closing early there might well be due to the default safety thinking with DRS – if it fails it is build so as to close automatically @bernasaurus, @keithedin, @petebaldwin.

But I […]

Isn’t it the nature of in race penalties that there is only limited time to take them and that they cannot be overturned after the race though anon?

Good point about Bottas @geemac, to me Bottas and Russel were the most standout drives. Both having great qualifying and showing what was in their cars in the race. Bottas strategy proved not to have been the […]

You’re probably joking there, right @j4k3? Russel beat Hamilton in qualifying, and his defensive drive was one of the highlights of this race.

Sure, it will probably have cost him time (while Hamilton at the […]

Also, we’ve seen the Mercedes cars this year tend to be relatively better in qualifying compared to some others when the weather is hot, since it helps them actually get heat in the tyres, so it remains to be seen […]

I guess AM will have some work to do to get on top of the right setup for their car. It does look like it drives a lot better. But others have also improved – just look at how close the grid still is.

They were also used on parts of Zandvoort with the new layout @proesterchen. So yeah, it’s clear that F1 uses them where they make sense / are needed.

So why not here, right.

I do think it might be less refined, since first of all they had less time to think this up at AM, but also, they had to (largely) work with the internals they already had, which clearly limits exactly what you can do.

At least they didn’t replace a great track with Paul Ricard @queki, I doubt it will be any worse than the Sochi races (at least no jumping the first or second corner stuff here).