• One thing puzzles me ...

    From Martin Harran@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Sun Dec 12 17:39:08 2021
    Why did Mercedes go for tyre change to mediums so early?
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  • From Matt Larkin@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Sun Dec 12 09:44:00 2021
    On Sunday, 12 December 2021 at 17:39:21 UTC, martin...@gmail.com wrote:
    Why did Mercedes go for tyre change to mediums so early?
    Er, they didn't?
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  • From Dan the Man@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Sun Dec 12 09:59:08 2021
    On Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 12:44:02 PM UTC-5, matthew...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Sunday, 12 December 2021 at 17:39:21 UTC, martin...@gmail.com wrote:
    Why did Mercedes go for tyre change to mediums so early?
    Er, they didn't?
    They actually went from mediums to hards.

    Dan
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  • From Bigbird@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Sun Dec 12 19:17:07 2021
    Martin Harran wrote:

    Why did Mercedes go for tyre change to mediums so early?

    They shadowed Max; changing from Medium to Hard.

    It was the best strategy avoiding a possible undercut.
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  • From Alan@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Sun Dec 12 15:27:44 2021
    On 2021-12-12 9:39 a.m., Martin Harran wrote:
    Why did Mercedes go for tyre change to mediums so early?

    They didn't.

    They changed from mediums to hard in reaction to Red Bull.
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  • From Martin Harran@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Mon Dec 13 07:50:15 2021
    On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 09:44:00 -0800 (PST), Matt Larkin <matthew.larkin@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sunday, 12 December 2021 at 17:39:21 UTC, martin...@gmail.com wrote:
    Why did Mercedes go for tyre change to mediums so early?
    Er, they didn't?


    OK, really I should have said "from" rather than "to" but I would have
    thought it was rather obvious what I meant.
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  • From Martin Harran@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Mon Dec 13 08:00:54 2021
    On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 19:17:07 -0000 (UTC), "Bigbird" <bigbird.nospam.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Martin Harran wrote:

    Why did Mercedes go for tyre change to mediums so early?

    They shadowed Max; changing from Medium to Hard.

    It was the best strategy avoiding a possible undercut.

    Seemed a bit strange to go so early but it was mentioned later that
    Pirelli said the hards had a life of 50 laps.

    Overall this year, I think that in terms of driver skills, Ham had the
    edge over Ver but Red Bull had it on strategy.
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  • From Phil Carmody@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Thu Dec 16 00:37:44 2021
    Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> writes:
    On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 19:17:07 -0000 (UTC), "Bigbird" <bigbird.nospam.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Martin Harran wrote:

    Why did Mercedes go for tyre change to mediums so early?

    They shadowed Max; changing from Medium to Hard.

    It was the best strategy avoiding a possible undercut.

    Seemed a bit strange to go so early but it was mentioned later that
    Pirelli said the hards had a life of 50 laps.

    Overall this year, I think that in terms of driver skills, Ham had the
    edge over Ver but Red Bull had it on strategy.

    I think Lewis had a better winning-from-behind attitude. Ditto the
    team (and if anything, Lewis had it because the team had it).
    I don't think Max and RB got the best from their bad days. Merc
    eked points out on the bad days better.

    However, Merc's strategy was utter pants a few times. I do remember
    thinking "this is obvious lunacy, ... unless it's genious ..., oh,
    no, it's lunacy" at several of their decisions this season. The funny
    thing is that some of the time I could work out the "unless" genious
    component which had obviously caused them to make that decision. But
    if it requires 8-dimensional hyper-draughts to win a race, it's probably
    a bad strategy.

    Phil
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