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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: British GP
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 09:34:26 -0700
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On 2024-07-07 09:09, pP85PrR wrote:
> Exciting at the front!
> 
> Interesting how strategy decisions have potentially strong influence on 
> the drivers' results. As Martin Brundle reiterated: "The right tire at 
> the right time."
> 
> A personal opinion: so good not to see a sea of orange shirts setting 
> off their orange flares. Do I remember correctly that there was a 
> prohibition on those flares at one point in the last season or two?
> 

Fantastic to have three different cars...

....(and 5 different drivers--sorry Sergio, but you're just not there at 
the moment)...

....all with a legitimate shot at being the fastest at any given track.

McLaren clearly got a couple of strategy calls wrong:

not double-stacking Oscar ruined his race,

and the tougher call of medium vs soft for Norris (rewatching the race 
fromm Norris's in-car feed shows it ended up being a joint decision with 
Norris first mentioning choosing the same tires as Hamilton). Piastri 
ended up gaining about 16-17 seconds on Norris by choosing the medium, 
so that choice is going to haunt Norris for a while.

But it was brilliant driving by everyone at the top.

Congrats, Lewis!