When Lando Norris pitted to avoid being overtaken by Oscar Piastri at the Singapore Grand Prix, he closed off the strategy that could have won him the F1 race; one that was proven by Lewis Hamilton back in 2014
Even the raising of the Singapore pitlane speed limit, cutting the pitstop loss from 28sec to 21sec was not enough to deviate the teams away from a one-stop last weekend. Which was why everyone up front was locked into position: George Russell leading from Max Verstappen and the McLarens of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
Needing a lap time advantage of 1.5sec to overtake on track and with everyone on the same one-stop strategy meant everyone's tyres were always about the same age and the performance differences between cars which had qualified next to each other was therefore never going to be anything like that 1.5sec.
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