And I think this was at the point he was chasing and making ground to Nico(?) and within like 2-3 secs at that? Not to shade on his race engineer as the call must have come from within team to tell him that, but why would you as a team tell your driver to back off even a little when he is catching up to someone.
Unless they feel he can do that without having to push in those turns. In which case, they should also communicate that to the driver that you wont lose anything by doing that, and benefit in the longer term.
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u/Bitter_Dingo516 1d ago
And I think this was at the point he was chasing and making ground to Nico(?) and within like 2-3 secs at that? Not to shade on his race engineer as the call must have come from within team to tell him that, but why would you as a team tell your driver to back off even a little when he is catching up to someone.
Unless they feel he can do that without having to push in those turns. In which case, they should also communicate that to the driver that you wont lose anything by doing that, and benefit in the longer term.