Matt Larkin <
matthew.larkin@gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 25 October 2021 at 11:36:05 UTC+1, geoff wrote:
... not quite paying off. Again.
geoff
Not sure there was much they could have done differently.
Hamilton's mediums weren't giving him any pace, so Max could
stick with him and then the undercut was always going to be
strong. Not sure why the mediums were so bad on Lewis' car
and yet OK enough for Max to follow closely on the RB.
It looked to me like LH stuffed it up about 2 laps from home
when he suddenly lost 0.6s or so in the middle of the lap and the
lap delta went up from about 1.1s to 1.7s in a couple of corners.
Though that might have been Max deploying the energy better at
that point too I suppose.
It should have been less close, IMHO, as Max seemed to be messed about
by the black and white flag minstrel show near the back, and unfairly
lost probably 1.4s and 1.0s on those two laps relative to Lewis.
Numbers from memory, I think it was about a 1.8s and 1.4s change in
delta, but Lewis was consistently gaining 0.3-0.4s/lap at that point.
I wouldn't call the race "exciting", I'd call it "tense" instead.
I was in the minority that had a VER/HAM prediction rather than a
HAM/VER one, and I was fearing that Merc would come out with some
kind of 5 dimensional hyperchess strategy that would ensure no
undercut was possible, or if possible, could be switched round by
stop 2. Not to be, fortunately.
Phil
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