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Originally Posted by wdave0
The cars start on the tires they use for their fastest Q2 lap, not Q3. So Rosberg only had to set a top 10 time on softs in Q2 to get into Q3 where he could use the ss like everybody else. Still taking advantage of the MB speed but only a top ten time on harder tires, not pole.
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A clever bit of strategy. Rather like stopping Hamilton twice under the pace car in order to "use" the compound that they didn't want to race on. Two fine bits of Chapmanesque thinking.
Circumstances prevented us seeing if Rosberg's strategy worked, and clearly Hamilton's didn't. But probably only because his aero damage was knocking out even the Softs too quickly.