Re: pit stops

Graham Hodgson wrote in news:4cb03kF14f371U2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

CatharticF1 wrote:
Graham Hodgson wrote in news:4c8lm6F14m4ncU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Mark Jones wrote:
On 8 May 2006 12:54:43 +1100, CatharticF1 <eferrari@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote: <snip>
The ITV commentary team certainly have an 'opinion' don't they?
Just ever so subtly tainting the win. I can just see Schu quietly
reclining while his pristine car is polished..

There were 3 practice sessions prior to qualifying. Here are the
number of laps done by each Ferrari:

MS 4 14 12
FM 0 18 10


Do the maths yourself..
That's great Brendan. Brundle's point was to do with the number of
sets of tyres used. You've just posted number of laps. It'd be more
interesting to see the laps done on each set.

I don't have that information - so I posted what I could find.
MS did more laps - which runs contrary to the thrust of the point
being made.

Hmm, I thought the thrust of the point being made was that Massa
chewed his tyres up in practice so he didn't have 3 new sets for the
race, unlike MS. Have I got that wrong?

Yes - James Allen said 'Donkey Work' a perjorative and inciteful term
deliberately chosen. A more correct explanation would have been:

Massa evaluated one more set of tyres than Schumacher in practice. It is
wise to evaluate the range of tyres likely to be suitable but there is
no point in both cars doing this. Schumacher however did slightly more
laps in the practice sessions and despite using fewer tyres was always
quicker than his teammate throughout practice.

In the race prior to the change to the final set of tyres Schumacher was
comfortably ahead of Massa and had Alonso beaten - so the final set was
not even decisive.

See - not the same without the ITV spin - is it?

:)


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CatharticF1

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