From: shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/12/2025 9:43 am, Mark Jackson wrote:   
   > On 12/2/2025 1:43 PM, Martin Harran wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 19:18:33 -0800, Alan  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >>> If McLaren hadn't screwed up on strategy...   
   >>   
   >> I struggle to understand how they did that. If you're in the lead and   
   >> your main threat does something different, surely the reaction should   
   >> be to cover it.   
   >   
   > Stella:   
   >   
   > "We didn't expect everyone else to pit. Obviously if everyone else behind   
   you pits, then it makes   
   > pitting definitely the right thing to do."   
   >   
   > Having left Piastri out they presumably could have decided to have Norris   
   follow Verstappen into   
   > the pits.  Perhaps there wasn't time to reconsider?   
      
   Can you imagine the outrage in Aus of they'd done that?   
      
   > Note also that had there been a second safety car at any time except lap 32   
   they would have looked   
   > brilliant.   
      
   Yep. Like most F1 strategy there was an element of gambling. Unfortunately for   
   McLaren it didn't   
   pay out this time.   
      
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