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That was quite an exciting end to an otherwise mediocre race. The only excitement was in the midfiled until the last 2 laps.Should Mercedes be penalized for winning in a 3 wheeled car?
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That was quite an exciting end to an otherwise mediocre race. The only excitement was in the midfiled until the last 2 laps.That's just it. I don't think the odds were that slim. We've seen these cars built/set-up to such rigid tolerances that if pushed similarly hard, should display the same symptoms more or less. Since Ham and Bot were pushing about the same pace, it was not all that unlikely that misfortune could befall Ham too. So I feel RB really screwed the pooch on this one...it was a risk well worth taking. It's not like that one point would've made the difference for a Max title. Think the Merc ship has already sailed too far out for that now.Circuitmaster wrote: ↑3 years ago I was also bemoaning the Max pitstop at the time.. but really, we see cars do this all the time and it's almost always a completely sensible gamble. The odds of a car in front suffering a setback that both slows them enough that they would have been caught without the stop, but not enough that you can't catch them because you pitted, is incredibly slim. And it's worth risking those very long odds for the very decent chance of an extra point.
Pitting Max at the time was probably the right choice.
No because he ended up having to fight with a defending Seb for 10th place. He failed to get either the FL or the final point.
"It looks like a bolt sheared within the clutch housing," said team boss Otmar Szafnauer.
"And that bolt got caught and therefore wouldn't allow the internal combustion engine to turn over.
"So where the bolt fell off, it got jammed, and we couldn't turn the engine over.
"I think it's a bit early to understand why, but it did shear off so it could be a material issue, it could be an over-torque issue, I don't know.
"I'm sure all of those bolts are torqued to a certain specification, say the torque ratio isn't set right and you over-torque it, it could shear it.
"It could be a material issue in manufacturing, but until you look into all of those things - was the bolt brittle for example, I don't know - so we'll have to understand the root cause and make sure we fix it."
Good point, that might well be the case. I wouldn't be surprised given Perez' experience. Besides, unless they've gotten a hold of Mercedes' notebook from the 2019 race they have to start from scratch too.DoubleFart wrote: ↑3 years ago I wonder if Perez does a lot of the long run setup work, and Lance got it wrong?