Lotus and strategy - Warning may contain spoilers
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Just a thought. What is going on at Lotus in terms of strategy. On more than one occasion over the past couple of seasons we have seen them throw away strong finishing positions to try to avoid making a pitstop with 10 or 12 laps to go only to lose all those positions anyway and then make a pitstop with 2 laps to go, it seems like madness!
Now of course its very easy for me to be wise in hindsight, but the signs are all there, if you are currently 2-3 seconds per lap slower than you were at your best point in the race and there are 10 laps to go then just pit.
That way you can at worst consolidate a decent position and who knows, since you are now one of the cars on fresh tyres at then end of the race you may even make up places in the last few laps.
I know the long stint strategy worked really well for Grosjean today, but surely you could write a simple piece of software to monitor lap times and do a calculation based on existing tyre data that triggers an alarm if things look to be going wrong.
With all the millions that get spent on all aspects of F1 is seems daft to be making such basic mistakes, especially when its a team like Lotus who are on the cusp of becoming a top team.
Would be interested to hear the thoughts of others on this.
Now of course its very easy for me to be wise in hindsight, but the signs are all there, if you are currently 2-3 seconds per lap slower than you were at your best point in the race and there are 10 laps to go then just pit.
That way you can at worst consolidate a decent position and who knows, since you are now one of the cars on fresh tyres at then end of the race you may even make up places in the last few laps.
I know the long stint strategy worked really well for Grosjean today, but surely you could write a simple piece of software to monitor lap times and do a calculation based on existing tyre data that triggers an alarm if things look to be going wrong.
With all the millions that get spent on all aspects of F1 is seems daft to be making such basic mistakes, especially when its a team like Lotus who are on the cusp of becoming a top team.
Would be interested to hear the thoughts of others on this.
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