Race Summary

• VER DNF → SAI win!
• What could have been a 1-stop snoozefest turned into a 2-stop… sort of.
• Ferrari with strong pace sees them able to take the top two steps of the podium
• McLaren also very strong pace, if not NOR, then PIA would have been on the podium easily
• A somewhat weak first stint for PER resulted in being unable to challenge for the podium
• ALO penalised end of race for over slowing or something which caused RUS to end up in the wall, then in the middle of the track.
• Mercedes Double DNF
• Despite a weak qualifying, Haas raced very well and found some points and made up time on track
• Alpine and Sauber forming the very back end of the field

Tyres Available for the Race

What better place to figure out which tyres everyone has for the race other than Pirelli themselves - feel free to click the link here for their twitter post.

In the medium term, I’ll try to make a graphic to do this on my own, but they do such a good job, and usually share a lot of very useful stuff on their twitter - so why not follow them.

https://twitter.com/pirellisport/status/1766471077021036814

https://twitter.com/pirellisport/status/1766471077021036814

Starting Grid

• PER takes a 3 place penalty for impeding in qualifying - this will prove costly in the race…
• SAR does not take place in the weekend as ALB has taken his car

Race Summary Charts

Tyre Strategy

• 2 stop race with the HRD being the favored tyre
• ALO and HUL only HRD tyre starters, and run HRD MED HRD strategy
• A few drivers started on the SFT tyre to make a difference on the opening laps, but were not so successful

Race Trace

• Race is a few different groups
  • The front which is Ferrari and McLaren
  • Perez kind of on his own along with Alonso and Mercedes
  • The rest of the mid field
  • Sauber and Alpine at the back

• SAI leads all but two laps of the race
• VER DNF with brake issue
• RUS decides to DNF on the final lap