With the right strategy, the data proves a Lando Norris victory at the British GP was a very likely reality.
Lewis Hamilton was very deserving of his ninth British GP win of his career at Silverstone.failed again at the pitwall and denied Lando Norris the chance to at least fight for victory. With the right strategy, the data proves it was a very likely reality.As was the case just a week ago in Austria, strategy was the key element in deciding the winner this time at Silverstone. After a race in mixed wet and dry conditions, the final change from intermediates to slicks decided the outcome.
The time loss was clearly greater than wasting time waiting in the pitlane for Lando to pit first and this move denied the Australian any chance of fighting for the podium and victory. From P2, just over a second behind his team-mate and leader, he dropped to P6, some 16 seconds behind Norris in front.
To which Piastri replied: “Yes, yes. It’s the best”. McLaren therefore had a strategic advantage over all its rivals as none of them had a medium tyre – all of them had used the ‘yellow’ compound for the first stint of the race! “So we can choose a medium to cover people like Verstappen or soft to cover people like Hamilton,” his race engineer replied without any recommendation or clear statement on which tyres to fit.
Taking this into account and comparing Hamilton’s out-lap with Norris’ in-lap, we cannot estimate how much Hamilton cut in the first sector at the pit exit.
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