On the other topic : Ferrari's strategy team just keeps on undermining themselves. I feel nostalgic of Brawn/Ferrari days just thinking of this.
There are good analysis how many points they lost last year playing it too safe at times (Monaco most noted race iirc or it was two years ago...) Anyway, reading this interviews two stops in 5 laps is a little bit too much of a punishment.
What sort of reasoning is that. Gosh, it makes it sound as if they weren't even bold to stay out than rather just plain frustration. A stop costs, what 30ish second with the nose change, say Alonso would drive 10-20sec quicker race than Massa and how easy DRS overtakes are on that track and traffic hold ups which shows Alonso would have been right in the Kimi/Hulkenberg fight and watching at the points, Kimi is as much as in class a of title rivals so far.
And honestly, why don't this teams in F1 test out scenarios such as this in secret and find out for themselves where the risk limit is. They're running on millions budgets on tens of years of experience and obviously they can see that matter a fact most of the racing isn't done in perfect conditions.
I do believe it was the team who made this mistake of not being clear enough to Alonso that he must pit in their attitude to collect every point available such as Alonso's attitude is. Perhaps Ferrari needs to make a very deep and thrower analysis of new tires/wings/fuel/drs data collected over past years and make new standards in strategy. Make sure that when they play bold it's just a normal thing for them and when they play safe it's the only thing they can do, rather than having reasoning controlled by satisfaction of current position or frustration with current position.
There are good analysis how many points they lost last year playing it too safe at times (Monaco most noted race iirc or it was two years ago...) Anyway, reading this interviews two stops in 5 laps is a little bit too much of a punishment.
What sort of reasoning is that. Gosh, it makes it sound as if they weren't even bold to stay out than rather just plain frustration. A stop costs, what 30ish second with the nose change, say Alonso would drive 10-20sec quicker race than Massa and how easy DRS overtakes are on that track and traffic hold ups which shows Alonso would have been right in the Kimi/Hulkenberg fight and watching at the points, Kimi is as much as in class a of title rivals so far.
And honestly, why don't this teams in F1 test out scenarios such as this in secret and find out for themselves where the risk limit is. They're running on millions budgets on tens of years of experience and obviously they can see that matter a fact most of the racing isn't done in perfect conditions.
I do believe it was the team who made this mistake of not being clear enough to Alonso that he must pit in their attitude to collect every point available such as Alonso's attitude is. Perhaps Ferrari needs to make a very deep and thrower analysis of new tires/wings/fuel/drs data collected over past years and make new standards in strategy. Make sure that when they play bold it's just a normal thing for them and when they play safe it's the only thing they can do, rather than having reasoning controlled by satisfaction of current position or frustration with current position.
