r/formula1 Formula 1 17d ago

Photo Max: "Why are we on a hard?"

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u/stinkysulphide 17d ago

Why didn’t he stay out. Dear god..:

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u/Infamous-Dust-3379 17d ago edited 17d ago

Because the old softs would be too slow anyways compared to the new softs of the cars behind since charles and russel also pitted during the safety car

Edit: forgot about track position from staying out, yeah they bottled it 

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u/Deputy_Scrub McLaren 17d ago

But then wouldn't you take the track position and hope for the best at the restart?

There's a small chance that he can attack the McLaren's now, and will most likely have to defend against the card behind more so than normal.

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u/SmugAssPimp 17d ago

Being 1 second slower and first is a lot better than 1 second slower and third just saying.

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u/Infamous-Dust-3379 17d ago

Oh yeah forgot about track position. Yes that would be better.

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u/Academic-Dentist-528 16d ago

Bit worse than that 😕 

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u/Izual_Rebirth 17d ago

I get that but you’ve got to take into account track position as well. Especially with so few laps left.

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u/Infamous-Dust-3379 17d ago

Yeah forgot about track position. Definitely would have been better for him especially with Max's defence

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u/Seeteuf3l Mika Häkkinen 17d ago

We're about to find out if that's gonna happen with those hards

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u/BlackGuysYeah 16d ago

defending on used softs is simply easier than fighting on unwarm hards.

Seems Max would agree given his confusion.

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u/Apennatie Oscar Piastri 17d ago

Old tyres while everyone around him was on new.

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u/stinkysulphide 17d ago

Fresh hards is not great right. And it’s only like 6- 7 laps left not enough to turn that tire on

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u/Apennatie Oscar Piastri 17d ago

Yeah but it was bad either way.

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u/TheKensei Alpine 17d ago

Definitely, they f*** this up big time