Strategy Corner – Will the F1 title race back to McLaren in Hungarian GP?

Charles LakelerThe status of Shock Formula 1 pole for Hungarian Grand Prix has established a complicated battle in Hungering as their purpose is to stop McLaren Pair of Oscar piastry And Lando Noris,

While McClarance may be expected to faster on a race stent as the rear tire comes to play wear, Lakeler was actually in the same ballpark during Friday’s FP2 long run, long -run leaders divide Piastry and Noris.

Hungary is a track-publication race, due to lack of overtaking opportunities, but a variety of available strategy options and rains may cause some intrigues in 70-lap competition.

Lakeler has solid cards, but strategy options are available

Speaking in favor of Lakeler, on New Asphalt, starting on the clean side of the grid, while the piastry is starting from the inside. At the beginning of Saturday’s F2 Sprint race, McLaren Junior Alex Dune, who finished second, immediately fell into the clutches of the Starter Arvid Lindblad, and if he is anything to go by then, then the title rival Noris could be more concerned than going to the Piastry Lecture.

If the lakeler has caught the lead, then pass the high-top-speed Ferrari There will be a challenge on the track and a half, even for mcClance. But Piralis is predicting a variety of viable pitstop strategies that can help the closest chaser of Monagaska.

The fastest strategy in theory is a two-stopper on the medium-kiss-hard, which is closely closely by a-stop on medium-kiss. Even the soft tires may come into the game in the game of Sunday cooler for drivers wishing to be aggressive in the beginning before trying to reduce their rivals.

However, unlike Lakeler, neither McLaren drivers have the second set of HEV Hards, which will force them to take a used set or take a different strategy.

Pireli’s head Mario Isola said, “For him, one-stop is likely to start with a one-stop strategy with the idea of medium/hard.”

“Currently one-stop is less or more slow, which we are measured on Friday. If it is cooler and you are able to manage better tires, it can be reduced. It may reduce. So I believe that I believe that two-stops are still a favorite choice.”

“If they decide to start keeping in mind the two-stop strategy, then the soft-meadium-hard is perhaps better, because you are early in the beginning, you use the medium for the undercut that is very powerful here. And then you have the last term on hard work. No one complains about warm-up but does not depend on the situations.”

But given that Hungary is a track-position race, a slow one-stop can still be more viable because it will be possible to manage another set of tires until the end is at the end without risk.

Will McLaren be forced to be conservative?

Under normal circumstances McLaren could try both options. Use a car to quickly reduce the lakeler and go with the other for a long time, selecting Ferrari to try which driver it can try and cover, forcing Scaderia to be forced into defeat.

But these are not normal conditions, because both Noris and Piestry are contesting the title of drivers. McLaren has always vowed to give equal treatment to the two drivers, so neither do they feel that the best strategy will have to accept anything other than the strategy – with the warning that the major car in the race should be a priority.

A similar landscape was played in the April Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka, where both Noris and Piastry were trapped on the back of the pole. Max Verustapane And McLaren took a very conservative route, even instead of dividing Noris into the same lap, instead of Verustapane’s strategies.

“We are both going to try to run and win the race. I think this is our goal,” Piastry told Sky. “There are many things where you can win or lose, but I am sure we will both try to win the race in ourselves.

“Possible (we need to live on different strategies), it depends on what our speed is and where we end after a lap. If you are in the first pit, you can get the undercut, but later pay in the stent. If you go later, you are trying to get ahead on the track, so both are trying to get forward.”

Rain risk

Another component to add to the mixture is likely to rain, with morning rain the grip levels have already been reset. FIA weather provider Metophns, 15:00 The local start time is increasing the chances of rain at 40% of the morning of Budapest, after which the chances of rainfall will be reduced. Shortly before the afternoon, the track was all, but the F2 feature running in the race thanks for 37 laps.

If the rain comes back, all the bets stop, but whenever overtaking it can be easier to wet and McLaren looks powerful whenever the intermediate is used, it will be equally important to nail the pitstop timing.

Ferrari’s chief Fred Vasasur and Stella preferred their opportunities on Sunday. “We saw that we had a strong and consistent speed for a long time compared to McLaren,” said Vasasur. “For the race, we should focus on ourselves, have a good strategy and the right approach to tires. If we do this, we can have a good because our race speed is usually stronger than our Quality speed.”

Stela said: “I am already telling some of you that Ferrari was in the game, Ferrari seemed competitive, but at the same time we are confident that we will have the pace to fight for victory.”