F1 2017 SPAIN DRIVERS
F1 2017 SPAIN DRIVER

This was helped by the Barcelona track being tricky to overtake at, with Carlos Sainz Jr. The long opening stint helped him rise up the order and, helped by numerous retirements and incidents, he found himself in seventh place at the chequered flag.

F1 2017 SPAIN DRIVER

The Sauber seems fairly kind on its tyres and the German driver was able to go until lap 33 on his soft tyres, before switching to mediums. Wehrlein was the only driver to complete a one-stop strategy in the race and because of the durability of the tyres, it worked out really well. Pirelli seemed too conservative with their tyre picks for Spain, obviously with limited data when the choices were made. The hard tyre only appeared in the early part of FP1 and was not seen again.ДЇelipe Massa called the tyre a вЂњjokeвЂќ and Esteban Ocon admitted it was вЂњterribleвЂќ, with no grip. Pascal WehrleinвЂ™s Sauber did the most laps on a set of soft tyres with 33, while Nico Hulkenberg, Marcus Ericsson and Wehrlein managed 32 laps on the mediums. This was because the soft tyre had better grip and performance while still having impressive durability. Soft tyre the way to goДЄs was evident with HamiltonвЂ™s strategy, the soft tyre was by far the preferred race compound and teams tried to spend as little time as possible on the mediums. Having to put under green flag conditions cost him a large chunk of time and he was then put onto the less grippy medium tyre for the final part of the race, when the soft compound could still go the distance and had better performance. The VSC really did seal the deal for Vettel. Valtteri Bottas then held him up for a few more laps, which brought Hamilton closer after he emerged from his pitstop. WhereвЂ™d it go wrong for Vettel?ДЇerrari tried the undercut with Vettel and while this gained him some time, he did lose out behind the slower Daniel Ricciardo initially, coming out in some traffic. This put Hamilton right into contention and on the soft tyre, he had the performance advantage to eventually take the lead back and storm to victory.

This prompted Ferrari to pit Vettel the lap after the VSC had finished. He was of course helped by a perfectly-timed final stop, which took advantage of the virtual safety car. Mercedes tried to maximise the time spent on the softs, at the start and end of the race, which gave him an advantage against Vettel in the final stint. Having lost the lead to Vettel at Turn 1, Mercedes opted to go much longer with HamiltonвЂ™s first stint, sacrificing the gap to the Ferrari at that stage in order to better set up the race later on. There were a few interesting strategic points that helped Hamilton win the race.

The Circuit de Barcelona-CatalunyaвЂ™s unique characteristics and the warm Spanish temperatures threw up numerous strategy decisions and headlines, letвЂ™s take a look at the most important ones: How did Hamilton win it? But strategy also played a crucial role in deciding the result of the Spanish GP. It was a race that featured so many fascinating ingredients: From clashes to overtakes, battles and incidents. ThatвЂ™s exactly what happened at the 2017 Spanish Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton overhauling Sebastian Vettel in a feisty battle to take his 55th career victory and 2nd of the season.

F1 2017 SPAIN DRIVERS

This is what weвЂ™ve been waiting for, right? A wheel-to-wheel, strategic and exciting battle between two top drivers and teams for Formula 1 race victory. SpanishВ GP F1 Strategy Report Podcast вЂ“В our host Michael Lamonato is joined by Craig (Scarbs) ScarboroughВ from. Race 5В вЂ“ 66В Laps вЂ“ 4.655km per lap вЂ“ 307.104km race distance вЂ“ mediumВ tyre wear

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