The strategy behind a Formula 1 race

 

Grand Prix editor Mark Hughes challenges Mercedes to let its drivers call their own strategy Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

Dear Moli, Here’s what Lewis Hamilton said after finishing second to his team-mate last time out in Brazil: “I’m here to race. It’s so difficult to overtake here and when you both have to do pretty much the same strategy it’s kind of already set from the beginning. So I’m like, ‘if there are other strategies, let’s do it, let’s take the risk,’ and they’re like, ‘look after the tyres,’ and I’m like, ‘no, I’m racing.’ And I think that’s what people want to see… It would be great sometimes to be able to do something different, see how it plays out. They do so many strategy simulations, pick the best two and that’s what you’re stuck with.” Here’s what Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said about the idea of the drivers calling their own strategy. “They really wouldn’t want to do it. I guarantee that they would lose the race pretty much every time.” Yes, if only one of the drivers was calling it and the other was being guided by the team. That’s on the assumption that we’re talking here of a race like Brazil where no other team had a look in, where it was always only a question of which Mercedes driver was going to win. But what if – in that situation – both were allowed to call it as it unfolded? What if Mercedes, should it find itself in a dominant position again this weekend in Abu Dhabi, let them at it? Click here to read the full feature >

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