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Originally Posted by Noah930
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.
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Not including myself here but really, really clever guys do this stuff
I've sat in at the virtual garage back in Maranello, the volume of telemetry/data being crunched along with real time prediction logarithms is difficult to comprehend. Was impossible for me to keep up with
The engineers on the pitwall don't make many decisions but just pass on the numerous decisions to the driver made by the dozen plus engineers/strategists at the factory virtual garage
Nothing is easy in F1, if it was everyone on the internet would be doing it
Monaco is especially not easy when trying to find a gap in traffic big enough to give a car enough space to warm up the tyres before doing a flying lap
Mercedes already had Q1 in the bag so to keep them put was just for data gathering purposes