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Originally Posted by Kymmy
He deserves credit for keeping it on the rack and winning the race, whoever made the call simply got lucky that there was no more rain..Which is why I believe that even after what's been said someone else made the final call as they would have had to have had the weather information.
On a different note anyone looking forward to BTCC starting next weekend? I find it's a great light hearted racing with some great action and fills in the F1 free weekends
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Jesus, give the man some credit. It was stated several times yesterday, by the driver, the drivers Engineer and the Team Principal thjat it was Jensons call to come in when he did for slicks.
He's the driver he can feel when the grip is starting to return to the track. They have sophisticated wether monitoring equipment so they knew it wasn't going to rain heavily again - not luck.
Jenson gambled to get the jump on everyone else, as you saw as soon as the other teams could see Jensons times everybody made a dive for the pits causing congestion and extending pit times.
It was all about who had the balls to go for slicks first, and Jenson did.
I agree that Mclaren hedged their bets by making Hamilton pit, and it nearly paid off. He should have been able to get past at least one of the Ferraris.
If he'd stayed out there's no guarantee that he would've got 2nd. Jenson has showed that not only can he conserve his tyres that he can still get performance out of them without killing them.
We don't yet know if Hamilton can do that.