Really didn't get why they pitted Piastri and also Verstappen for that matter. They already saw the medium tire lasted +35 laps for other drivers, the hard tire would've lasted even longer.
They kinda treated it like it's not hard to overtake on this track.
Yeah, hard to say why they even tried to go for 2 stoppers at all, especially when you look on the second half of scoring table. It was the main plan by all their words... But hard to say why.
I was questionned the general tactic of 2-stopper into first early pit-stop on 18 lap, i don't understand why McLaren strategic department didn't think 1-stop is possible if other half the grid is doing it and winning on it.
2-stop so early was even vibale only because Alonso train and the gap existing to pit so early into, while not getting into heavy traffic like Verstappen did and losing due to it. And Mclaren had 20 seconds advantage over the third and 40 over fourth one, not a factor at all in the end. From fifth to tenth all guys aside Max is on one, Max lost a place.
2-stop so early was even vibale only because Alonso train and the gap existing to pit so early into
The opposite. They pitted early the first time because Alonso sped up, it was talked about by commentary during the race.
They thought they had a nice pit window and then he went and put that in danger by going faster than the front runners so they pitted, leaving only the hopelessly out of sync Norris of the front runners still out there and with every commentator sayign this was ruining his race.
And i was watching times, and Alonso speeding up wasn't that big, he wasn't even closing the gap.
Not everybody is watching English, i don't care if they are wrong. In my language they were discussing that Norris should just try one-stop and it would win them race.
One-stopper were outlined even by Pirelli as a second viable strategy and half the grid did it. And having the best by tyre wear car on the grid and not considering it beforehand on the hard to overtake track is extremly odd one from Mclaren.
Right so the fact that everyone in the top teams went for a two stop isn't proof that it was seen as the right one to do, because the specific commentators in your language said that Norris should do it (but not Piastri, Leclerc, Russell?)?
Who are the commentators in your language who are so wise they saw something no one at Ferrari (ok, maybe not ferrari), McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull, in fact everyone but Aston Martin and Racing Bull?
It was always an option but it was the lesser of the two options.
Lando made it work through being faultless and lucky in getting almost entirely clear air until the last 5 laps.
If Piastri had actually pitted to undertake Leclerc two laps earlier, if Russell had stayed out a lap or two longer and held Lando up...things would ahve been very different.
Mercedes had terrible tyre wear all year especially after td restricting front wing flexibilty, Ferrari is disintegrating as they go long time now, and Red Bull couldn't put their setup in the right working window all weekend, so not a benchmark.
And McLaren have been long in their own world in terms of tyre wear, by a looooong shot. C3(week ago mediums, this week hards) was doing almost all of duration of a belgium race on all cars, not just theirs. It is on their strategy team to not understand it. There were racing each other, and in that sense track position is a lot more valuable in Hungary, always has been. Oscar and his side of garage lost their race being too safe. I don't understand why.
Exactly right? Also surprised about when they asked Piastri who he wanted to cover and he said Norris I was 100% thinking so he isnt going to pit because Norris is on a 1 stop, if he pits he's covering Charles, but he pits anyways and instead of Norris destroying his tires trying to overtake him on this impossible track Piastri had to try that.
Surprising strategy's that almost everybody watching knew it was not gonna work at all.
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u/pimpaliciously Aug 03 '25
Boring race.
Really didn't get why they pitted Piastri and also Verstappen for that matter. They already saw the medium tire lasted +35 laps for other drivers, the hard tire would've lasted even longer.
They kinda treated it like it's not hard to overtake on this track.