Analysis: Why PIASTRI would not have obtained from using two-lap Quali strategy of verstappen

close but no cigar.

It may not be a real phrase Oscar piastryAfter the first Q3 lap of the piastry, and his race engineer Tom Stalard’s head, but the emotions were the same.

That lap – 1m27.560s – was actually partially slower than its final Q2 lap (1m27.545s) and is therefore likely to be beaten excessively Max VerustapaneWhich was the fastest of all in Q1 and was there with McLarens in Q2.

Piastry’s team-Mate Lando Noris There would have been a candidate – would he partially not incorrect the speed of his entry into Turn 4, before the Australian crossed the finish line, and to curb turn 5, then in obstacles.

The upcoming red flag left the piastry out of a single routine over the time and forced the majority of other Q3 graduates to cancel their own push laps or bail before starting.

The ideas then changed how the remaining time available on the clock to maximize: 8m32s. A highly compressed time limit for those expecting the standard Q3 program of two different low-fuel runs, requiring a period in the garage to fill the fuel.

Vastapane’s prolonged race engineer Gianpiero Lambis called: Fan the world champion K for two push laps, fuel the RB21 of the world, complete it for the first time on the softs, scrubbed only lightly, then make a ‘racing’ stop for the remaining sets of new sofs.

This will enable Verustapane to make the extreme performance on a complex track that rewards this approach, and in a car that is notorious unpredictable under the duras.

His first lap will be a ‘filler’, the second is a big push. But McLaren Pitwall was evaluated and exempted from this approach.

“I had a lap on the board, I did not clearly need to put one and one there,” Piastry said.

“And this (time was left) was going to be extremely tight. As Max said, he had to fuel for the entire run. Because for the first time on the tires used with a little more fuel, you are wearing such a weight that you are learning how much you are learning and how much is really going to remove you?

“I think it is a very different landscape when you do not have a lap on the board. But with a lap on the board for us, we have done three or four new sets (tires) in a row – so, yes, yes, we have decided that we finally decided to go for that single lap. And I think it was the right decision.”

If we compare the figures between the final Q2 lap of the piastry and the first Q3 lap, both set on new soft, we can achieve an insight into McLaren’s thinking. In its first Q3 lap it is partially slow at the top of turn 2 and ships 0.071 compared to that final Q2 lap. But he immediately cures more speed through turn 4, by that time he is 0.126S ahead.

Unfortunately, however, it compromises on her exit and is again below the turn 13 between 9 – and 0.125s, despite the slight recovery in the middle. For the remaining, the two laps are almost identical – to the last corner, where on their last Q3 lap, the piastry is a bit very ambitious.

For one part of another piastry, traveling 30 km faster than its previous lap, but again, it compromises her exit. He is forced to take the throttle a little later and keep the third gear a little longer.

So you can see why Piastry must have felt that a better lap could be found by calming the small details, and that and the team agreed to go out on the same tire, but the hostess with a heavy fuel load was not worth the risks.

The car would be a little more pendulous and reluctant to change the direction through areas where he was losing through the first Q3 lap – and on the tire that had already given his best.

First sector of verstappen

Verustapane, after completing the first of his two Q3 laps – on a scrubed, but did not push Soft – he was 0.001S faster on the first run and provisional pole of the piastry. Apparently, at this point he gave Lambias a radio for a low grip, which he had turned in 1.

He was assured that he did not ‘present’ the tires properly and he was not at his peak when he reached there in his lap. Piastry later posted a 1M27.304s lap that returned to Vestappen to P2.

As we can see in data, when the red bull driver placed on the tire of his new tire, he increased the biggest damage in the fastest lap of the piastry in 1-2 complex. He is traveling 10 km fast on the main (possibly a factor of engine mode when the data indicates that he is running 300 or RPM higher). He already has 0.222s, which is in the hands of the piastry as he picks up the throttle when he exits.

On the run, 4 and 5 piasties wiped out some of that margin – possibly the result of aero or Mercedes Delivery of Pu – But Vastapane is briefly 20 km sharp through the slowest point of this complex and the margin is re -spreading.

It is nip-end-cut through the rest of the lap as the piastry fixes some land, and they are just 0.056S on the run in the last corner. Piastri is away from the first throttle and also enables the Vastapane to move a slightly higher speed to the apex on the brake.

He opens the gap to 0.143s, but it comes at a cost: at the top he is 6 km slow and the gap starts rebuilt again because they both come on gas.

From here it is a question of power delivery and the Mercedes engine behind McLaren works a better job than Honda, and the gap reaches 0.010s as they cross the line.