P7 today! Had fun running up by the wall all day and moved forward once I got going a little better. Couple of top 10s in a row feels like we are making some progress!
Another really good start today but after that we just lacked pace to move forward. P13 was the maximum that we could’ve done after a difficult weekend.
We take the positives forward to the next triple. Thx for the energy Singapore 🇸🇬
god really the funniest thing that happened in this race was norris saying “do i help oscar” from ten seconds ahead😭😭😭😭😭😭what the fuck were you even going to do
🚨| Fred Vasseur: "It was a total decision by Lewis, we called him in but he didn't come back in. A great shame because it would have been P3. I'm disappointed because we could have had two on the podium instead we're sixth. We'll talk to him about it but overall they did a good job."
above is a translation, via @MONDOFERRARI_
did lewis make the wrong call? yes! is he the strategist? no!!!!!!
as a TEAM you have data analysts, you have the head of strategies and you have the engineers who all see what is going on
in theory lewis’ medium-soft strategy would have been faster as he could have gone longer and the mediums, the softs pit and he gets clean air and gets some push laps in, he then pits, has a lower fuel load on faster tyres and we saw, OVERTAKING WASNT IMPOSSIBLE
why they pitted lewis so early? i don’t know, was it his call? i don’t know either
but if you put him on a two stop strategy, EXECUTE IT
even if the driver says “i want to stay out” the strategists and engineers HAVE THE LAST CALL, we’ve seen bono and mercedes overrule lewis’ calls so many times, THEY HAVE MORE INFORMATION
so yes lewis is partially to blame and i don’t even know if it was lewis who decided to stay out or ferrari’s choice not to pit him but either way they are a TEAM and the team in the end has a bigger picture and should know better
when lewis inevitably ends up criticising how the team have managed the race i want everyone who's instinctual reaction is to get incredibly defensive to watch this over again and again and again so they get it