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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
Vettel wasn't good. There's no other way of looking at it. But expecting him to magic up a good result on that strategy is just fantasy. He probably wouldn't have won even with a perfect strategy as Lewis was fantastic all weekend, but you can't just change how the tyres work. Nobody else tried to go fast on those tyres for that length of time for a good reason - it can't be done. Once it was clear the gamble didn't work it became damage control and slow down to make the tyres last so they wouldn't need another stop.
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Well you can. Drivers and teams ave tyre choice before the weekend. They messed up by not bringing enough softs, then Vettel didn’t produce during Q2 on the Ultras. Had he done that, then things could well have been different, it would have given them flexibility on strategy.
Vettel AND ferrari threw this race away, just linke Monza...probably several weeks before the race, purely because of tyre selection