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Fixed match prediction Andrea Kimi Antonelli: We could not call in boxes again
Antonelli has questions for the strategy for the race in Bahrain. The Mercedes pilot Andrea Antonelli expressed doubts that the team worked in the optimal way when adjusting the strategy during the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Antonelli, starting the 5th, in the end finished only the 11th, and became the only racer who, in the course of the race, made three pit stops.
Antonelli made his second pitst stop at the 25th circle and switched to software. However, after only 5 circles he was again called to boxes, because a security car appeared on the highway.
Right before the pit stop and after it between Antonelli and his racing engineer Peter Bonnington, the following dialogue took place.
Aka: Are we sure of that?
PB: Yes, I confirm
Aka: buddy, I still think that this was not the right decision. Now all the rivals were in front of me
PB: Let`s see how it will work. Most likely, we would have to stop again if we stayed in the previous set of tires. Now everyone, almost certainly, will go to the end of the race and will not stop.
Antonelli managed to overtake both Williams and Alpine Jack Duen, but in the end he graduated from the race behind Oliver Berman, still unable to return to the glass zone.
Yes, everything is a little confused, because at the first Anderkate everything went fine, I expected this. But then I switched from a medium to software, drove only a couple of laps on this set, and then a security car appeared on the highway. And it seemed to me that we might not have stopped in boxes again.
After all, after the appearance of a security machine (and while it is on the highway), the tires would still have cooled, and in clean air the situation with wear could be much better.
Nevertheless, we will need to study everything along with the team. I think that on my side of the boxes we could act more reasonably-at least from the point of view of how much I attacked after the pit stop, then to save the tire resource, "said Antonelli.
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