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Jean Claude Vaaldamme
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Great qualifying.
Everything unpredictable except Alpines and Hamilton not going past Q1
Everything unpredictable except Alpines and Hamilton not going past Q1
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Can’t wait for the safety car on lap 54 tomorrow….
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A variant of this is very likely
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Sounds like an inchident. I doubt Norris will be risking anything even if he loses 10 places on the first lap - Piastri should take advantage of that fear of a DNF imho.
Naah. Max will easily clear turn 1 while the orange mobiles maintain their positions as per internal team orders. George is the chaos maker to look out for.
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George will do anything not to let Max win title.
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A lot of luck!
He also started from P16 at Abu Dhabi 2021 ;-)The goat...
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McLaren’s outlier plan to avoid its biggest F1 finale concern: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/mclaren-abu-dhabi-gp-f1-2025-strategy-graining/
"... Even though there appeared to be some track improvement on Saturday, it was not as great as many drivers and teams expected. Furthermore, the typical Saturday programme means that no teams ran with the kind of heavy fuel loads that will typically trigger the tyre graining problem.
Well aware of the uncertainty, and the prospect that the race could turn into a two-stopper where tyre preservation is key, McLaren has gone it alone with both drivers in choosing to keep back two sets of new hard tyres for the race alongside its fresh medium. The only other team that has anything close to that is Aston Martin, which has one set of new hards and one set of used for its pairing.
From McLaren’s perspective, the choice of having two sets of hards rather than two sets of mediums is about protecting itself from the dangers of front tyre graining and high degradation. The harder tyre is not only less at risk to graining - because it is more difficult to tear the surface - but also should be able to run longer so can help open up greater strategy variations. Asked by The Race if the graining situation remained a concern heading into tomorrow, McLaren team boss Andrea Stella said: “I think we have seen in practice that the level of degradation and graining was above expectation in a way.
“[But] a shout-out to our strategy team that said 'let's save the hard tyres', which is what we did…. [For] a race where you have this level of graining and degradation it could be a good strategic option.”
Pirelli itself is hopeful that track evolution that is still due to come over the course of Sunday, with support races all morning, should help further minimise the risk of graining.
However, Stella thinks that this cannot be taken for granted because experience so far this year points to the improvements not being so dramatic into race day. ..."
"... Even though there appeared to be some track improvement on Saturday, it was not as great as many drivers and teams expected. Furthermore, the typical Saturday programme means that no teams ran with the kind of heavy fuel loads that will typically trigger the tyre graining problem.
Well aware of the uncertainty, and the prospect that the race could turn into a two-stopper where tyre preservation is key, McLaren has gone it alone with both drivers in choosing to keep back two sets of new hard tyres for the race alongside its fresh medium. The only other team that has anything close to that is Aston Martin, which has one set of new hards and one set of used for its pairing.
From McLaren’s perspective, the choice of having two sets of hards rather than two sets of mediums is about protecting itself from the dangers of front tyre graining and high degradation. The harder tyre is not only less at risk to graining - because it is more difficult to tear the surface - but also should be able to run longer so can help open up greater strategy variations. Asked by The Race if the graining situation remained a concern heading into tomorrow, McLaren team boss Andrea Stella said: “I think we have seen in practice that the level of degradation and graining was above expectation in a way.
“[But] a shout-out to our strategy team that said 'let's save the hard tyres', which is what we did…. [For] a race where you have this level of graining and degradation it could be a good strategic option.”
Pirelli itself is hopeful that track evolution that is still due to come over the course of Sunday, with support races all morning, should help further minimise the risk of graining.
However, Stella thinks that this cannot be taken for granted because experience so far this year points to the improvements not being so dramatic into race day. ..."
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