McLaren might have the chance to pincer with different strategies to get at least one car ahead, but lets hope they don't get caught up in some indecision or self-created fairness conundrum that ends up causing a snafu.
ack, don't want to have to quote myself.. but why McLaren, why???
Unpopular opinion but F1 has outgrown Suzuka, from a racing perspective and from a safety perspective. The racing is never been particularly good, but it seemingly gets a pass because of it standing in the history of the sport, and it's really lagging from a safety aspect.
Minimal run off in multiple fast parts of the track, and only tyres, no Techpro anywhere.
Nah, they cars need adjusting so that they can follow more closely, probably have a higher tyre degradation. Potentially review the sporting regulations and have minimum of 2 stop races to add more variety of strategy.
Why did they give Oscar the undercut on Lando?
I think it was to protect his own position from cars behind, interesting is confusion with the question when asked after the race.
Norris sometimes makes some daft decisions. What was the point in aiming for the grass? He cannot possibly think he can blame Verstappen for that.
Only thing I have on this point, I didn't like Ted saying that Max couldn't have been any further over - is there some British Tall-poppy syndrome for commentators against Lando, or do they just really love Max at the moment?
On the forward replay Max was not in the 'fast lane' in the pit, but straddling the centre of the lane, I'm not sure if when running the the lane drivers are meant to move to the fast lane if it is free?
Still Norris should have backed off and left the pits right behind Max instead of giving away a bunch of time....
Norris shouldn't have pitted with Max, he had a faster car and should have tried for an overcut, why didn't the team see that undercut wasn't especially powerful... at the very least if they left him out pushing a couple of laps it would have forced Max to push hard on his fresh tyres which can be bad for the tyres later.. Pitting and staying behind game Max all the advantage to manage the pace.
Pirelli should have brought softer tires for a more interesting race imo.
This 100%, another thing they should try would be the same as Monaco try forcing 2 pitstops. Use all three compounds in the race, or just have a rule to make 2 stops. It would cost nothing to try.... I just can't believe the amount of 1 stop races for the last decade... so boring 99% of the time.. 2 stop doesn't guarantee a more interesting race, but more often than not it is and it means there is more happening in the race.
