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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: British GP
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 16:16:36 -0700
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On 2024-07-09 16:13, Geoff wrote:
> On 8/07/2024 4:34 am, Alan wrote:
>> 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!
> 
> Surprising that none of the haters have come out with "HAM wouldn't have 
> won if RUS hadn't been retired because Mercedes favour HAM" yet.

Sorry... ...not a hater.

I don't know who would have won if Russell hadn't retired.