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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Russell's car too light
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:12:11 -0700
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On 2024-07-29 03:35, Geoff wrote:
> On 29/07/2024 7:44 pm, Alan wrote:
>> On 2024-07-28 22:22, Woozy Song wrote:
>>> In another forum, a zillion posters said because he did 1-stop that 
>>> he wore a few kg extra rubber off the tyres. But then would not the 
>>> tyres be unsafe in the final laps?
>>
>> Not necessarily.
>>
>> Pirelli will have given the teams so data on how many laps the tires 
>> can run safely; which is not to say quickly.
>>
>> It was a real shame.
>>
>> Russell made a very bold call, and did make it stick on the track.
>>
>> And if Spa had the traditional cool down lap, he could probably have 
>> picked up enough rubber to have made minimum weight.
> 
> 
> Yes, he went pretty much straight in. But so did the others ...
> 
> Not to suggest 1.5KG would have likely made a difference to HAM passing 
> him.

If his car was 1.5kg lighter when it was weighed, and he wasn't carrying 
a different amount of fuel than Hamilton, then at every fuel load, his 
car was lighter.

Could 1.5kg over the entire race distance put him half a second ahead at 
the end? Yes.