tyres in monaco

[bogaTYR]

here is an overview of the tyre strategy in monaco

Driver	Team			Stint 1	Stint 2	Stint 3

Hamilton	McLaren	 	 S-Soft	 Soft	 Soft

Kovalainen	McLaren		 Soft	 Soft	 DNF

Massa		Ferrari		 Soft	 Soft	 S-Soft

Raikkonen	Ferrari		 Soft	 Soft	 S-Soft

Kubica		BMW	 	 Soft	 Soft	 DNF

Heidfeld	BMW	 	 Soft	 S-Soft	

Alonso		Renault	 	 Soft	 Soft	 S-Soft

Piquet		Renault		 Soft	 DNF	

Trulli		Toyota		 Soft	 Soft	 S-Soft

Glock		Toyota		 Soft	 S-Soft	

Bourdais	Toro Rosso	 Soft	 S-Soft	

Buemi		Toro Rosso	 Soft	 DNF	

Webber		Red Bull	 Soft	 Soft	 S-Soft

Vettel		Red Bull	 S-Soft	 Soft	 DNF

Rosberg		Williams	 Soft	 Soft	 S-Soft

Nakajima	Williams	 Soft	 Soft	 S-Soft

Sutil		Force India	 S-Soft	 Soft	 Soft

Fisichella	Force India	 Soft	 S-Soft	

Button		Brawn GP	 S-Soft	 Soft	 Soft

Barrichello	Brawn GP	 S-Soft	 Soft	 Soft

same very interesting comparisons can be made. LH for instance, pitted in lap 10, presumably cos of tyres cos he did have fuel for over 20 laps. while button, on the same tyres, pitted in lap 17. also mainly cos of tyres. jenson more then 7 laps longer on the S Softs then LH is surpising.

at the time of his first pit stop LH was 45 sec behond button, thats more then 4 secs per lap slower. ok, LH was in the back and in traffic but still. how is this possible? one would imagine LH would have used KERS but the time loss per lap is simply mind boggling. from these times one could say LH didn't push at all until pitstop 1. any thoughts would be appreciated. apparently LH had issues with his front wing. could that be the reason?

barrichello made his first pits stop in lap 16, 1 lap ahead of button and was at that time 12 secs behind button. which confirms the story rubens told that his tyres suffered from being behind button.

 

[Galahad]

Obviously Hamilton just didn't try. I'm sure we could all have done much better...

Anyway, to answer the questions, Lewis stopped early because McLaren thought there might be a Safety Car following the crash between Piquet and Buemi, on lap 10. They had nothing to lose and potentially a lot to gain by doing so.

By the end of lap 1 with the usual field spread Hamilton was already over 15s behind Button. He was stuck behind Heidfeld and Sutil and running to their pace. If he was in tyre trouble, I don't know, but he was easily able to stay on the back of the BMW and Force India right up to lap 10.

Initially Rubens was running to roughly the same pace as Jenson, however from about lap 11 onwards he lost around 1.5s/lap, a very big difference to be sure. I don't know why Brawn left him out for six laps before pitting him for the correct tyres though.

Thanks for posting the strategies, boga

 

[teabagyokel]

Yeah, I thought McLaren bombed it in so he could lead under Safety Car if they were lucky!

Hamilton hit a BMW at St. Devote at one point and damaged his front wing? I don't think you can be too harsh on him for anything to be honest, although some will always find a way...

 

[Jen]

If LH had damage and he knew it was making him slip back through/stop him progressing through the field, why didn't he come in to get it fixed sooner. Another bad by VMM or LH himself?

 

[bogaTYR]

not just a front wing, the whole one side of a floor board apparently. from what i understood, he drove with both the broken wing and the iffy floor plate the enitre race, not sure he had the things replaced.

to be honest, it was new for me. but in the other place this is used as a reason why LH performed so meagerly. i think its rubbish myself cos if it bothered LH in anyway then he or the team would have had it fixed. like jen says.

ah, and my remark that it looked like LH was not pushing, has a question mark. so i am not sure about this but the time dropped on the s softs by him was a bit massive.

thanks for cleaning up the attachment bro.

 

[Brogan]

thanks for cleaning up the attachment bro.

My pleasure boga, thanks for posting the data.
P.S. Was it that obvious it was me?
P.P.S If you click on "Edit" on your post you can see how I did it. Just use notepad to tab the data into columns and then copy it into the thread inside the

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[bogaTYR]

just a lucky guess bro. i already was truly surprised i managed to get youtube stuff in postings. so progress is being made next time i will try your advice as was suddenly added to your previous mail. i am trying to keep up