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Originally Posted by chapo
Another Ferrari F@!k show for qualifying, why wouldn’t you send him out?
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Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc
I agree completely , if you think your driver was fast enough great . But if the team is seeing lap times coming down why not get back out there with three minutes to go ? Especially if you are at a track that is very very difficult to pass .
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With all due respect to guys like Captain and Won, who do this stuff for a living, but holy smokes, any of us could be the strategist at the Scuderia, and do a better job than the mangled mess they have for race strategy. Even if they felt kinda confident, unless they were 100% sure they were into Q3, they should have had Leclerc out there at least circulating for this just-in-case situation. I realize there's risk involved in merely circulating (accident, penalty from.impeding another driver, etc), but even Mercedes had their cars (or at least one of them) out there even though they were nearly bump-proof at P1 and P2 at that time.
This isn't just hindsight being 20-20. I watch these races (and qualifying sessions) and probably once every other race weekend I wonder to myself in real time (or at least DVRed "real time"--but either way before I know the end results) what the heck the red cars are doing. Whether it's Arrivabene or Binotto or whoever is running the show for them, they frequently seem to make errors in strategy.