#if you don’t blame Norris for having soft tires on for the last stint | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

whyamiawakes · 5 months ago

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Let me be clear: pit stops are not decided by the drivers. Never. The drivers have no say in when to pit or which tired get put on, the team might ask for a preference, but at the end it’s the pit wall that decides.

So a wrong tire for track condition is always a mistake by the team.

A driver mistake is a collision, an off track excursion, a blockage that results in a flat spot, a spin, hitting a barrier.

The wrong tires being put on the car is and will always be on the team. Because drivers don’t have all the information necessary to make those decisions and have to rely exclusively on what they are told by their engineers.

So no, it’s not the drivers fault if an entire strategy team cannot read weather forecasts and give their drivers accurate informations (or even the same informations if we are being honest, because Ferrari somehow managed to give their drivers two different forecasts while sitting less than a meter away)

#i cannot read another ‘oh but it was Charles mistake’#no the fuck it was not #his mistake was not putting that last q2 lap together #mistake that was severely caused by the team putting him on the old package with only one practice session #and it just so happened to be a wet one #(which AGAIN how can nobody in that team be able to read what the weather forecast says)#if you don’t blame Norris for having soft tires on for the last stint #you can’t blame leclerc for having inters on with minimal rain #f1 #british gp 2024

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