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On 24/07/2024 8:25 am, Phil Carmody wrote:

Sir Tim <no_email@invalid.invalid> writes:

Given that Norris is well ahead of Piastri in the WDC, McLaren should have >> let Lando win. Tough on Oscar, but F1 is a tough sport and his day will
come.

Yup, agree, unless they had a rock-hard pre-decided agreement I'm not
party to.

I'm working on the principle that NOR was faster than PIA on his third
set of tyres, and had they pitted Oscar first, Lando would have been on
his tail for 10-15 laps, and one can't say an overtake would be
impossible; Oscar was certainly making more mistakes, and it only takes
one mistake to lose a place.

I've noticed that Oscar almost always fades in the latter half of a race (hence I've never picked
him in the pool to win). F1 races are generally twice as long as the feeder series races so I've
been expecting to see Oscar start to increase his stamina over full race distance but it's yet to
happen.

Was the NOR 1st-box *really* that tactically necessary?

With McLaren apparently dominant it is not beyond the bounds of possibility >> that Norris could win the WDC - I just hope he doesn’t miss out by less
than 7 points

Indeed.

Yup. IMO McLaren should have let Lando take the win due to championship standings (and Lando says
that's what he was trying to convince them of on the radio but was always going to give the place
to Oscar if he couldn't).

I think Lando also knows that Oscar's not great in the last part of a race, hence him saying 'tell
him to close up and I'll let him past' (or words to that effect).
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification
in the DSM"
David Melville.

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