🗣'A last-minute change to soft would have been an operational problem.” McLaren has explained that unfortunate timing with the safety car at F1’s BritishGP was behind Lando Norris being left on hard tyres at the end. ⬇️
felt that the safer option was to switch Norris to hards rather than take unnecessary risks and go on to used softs.
Speaking about the call to go on hards, with the cars around Norris all on softs, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella explained it was all down to timing. “But then the virtual safety car was converted into a safety car when we were pitting, and everything was [ready] at the pitstop to put hard tyres on. A last-minute change to soft would have been an operational problem.”Motorsport Images
“If you have the pitstop crew ready with the hard tyres, and you make a call for soft tyres, it means that the guys that need to pick the tyres would have to rush there in the garage, remove the blankets, and bring the tyres back. It can create quite a bit of a situation, and it could have delayed the pitstop.”
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