Original title: In or not in? McLaren hesitated in the safety car and let Norris lose points!
At the F1 British Grand Prix, McLaren Racing was unable to react in time and allowed Norris, who was already in the lead, to change the soft tyres for Norris after a lap in the safety car. This also cost him a lot of time, and after exiting the station, he fell behind Alonso, who had pit on the previous lap, and fell to the sixth place, missing two points in vain. The following Xiaobian will analyze for you why this situation occurs.
AuCom parked the car on the track.
The reason for all this began with Ocon's retirement, when the race reached lap 39, AuCorn's car broke down and slowly stopped on the track. This happened to everyone's surprise, as he could have parked the car on gravel or concrete far from the track. In that case, there will be no safety car but a yellow flag or a virtual safety car, and when almost everyone has completed two stops, there is a high probability that they will not choose to enter the stop again. Because if the game resumes at any time, one more pit stop loss will be huge.
Drivers opted for pit stops to change tyres.
AuCom parked the car on the track, which meant the race had to show a safety car. In this case, Norris's situation is more embarrassing. Because Norris's hard tyres had only been used for 4 laps at this time, it could support the rest of the race, and if he pit and change tyres and Alonso chose not to score, he would be overtaken on the track. At this time, the McLaren team seemed to be in a dilemma.
Alonso was still in front of Vettel after making a pit stop to change the tyres.
Alonso, on the other hand, is more active behind him, because in the case of a safety car, the gap caused by the pit stop can be completely bridged. And Vettel behind him has already opened a pit window, which poses no threat to him. So the team decisively let the head brother enter the stop to change the tire, and this active choice also allowed Alonso to earn a positional advantage.
Norris made a lap after the safety car before making a pit stop.
As a result, Norris fell into passivity and could only choose to be forced to pit stop in order to overtake his opponent again on the track. Sure enough, after exiting the station, Norris fell behind Alonso. And if Norris chooses not to pit and use the hard tyres until the end, he will definitely be overtaken by Alonso, who is closely behind after returning to the game and uses the updated soft tyres, and will not be able to catch up with his opponents again.
It can be said that this time the pit stop changed tires, McLaren Racing appeared very hesitant, wanting to win and fear losing, and the forward-looking form led Norris to finally be overtaken by Alonso behind him.
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