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Every overtaking manoeuvre in the race was totally influenced by each drivers relevant tyre degradation situation. Same in Bahrain, same at every GP.
In fact if Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull are all on exactly the same tyres, with exactly the same amount of degradation, then none of them have any chance of overtaking each other.
That is such an absolute fact that I'm very surprised how poor the top teams are at working it out...and quickly. Mercedes, in particular. seem very dim in this respect.
Everybody knows a tyre change under the safety car is effectively a free stop.Everybody also knows that tyre degradation has a profound effect on lap times.More than any other single factor by some margin. Top teams spend millions on finding tenths of a second but don't seem to realise quickly enough that a set of new tyres can find 2 seconds or more instantly.
The only GP where track position is everything is probably Monaco.
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