Lewis Hamilton believes his former staff McLaren squandered their likelihood to win the Italian Grand Prix by placing their drivers on two-stop methods.
McLaren locked out the entrance row of the grid for at present’s race however Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc cut up their two drivers firstly. Whereas each McLaren drivers pitted twice, Leclerc solely got here in as soon as, and took the chequered flag first.
Hamilton is satisfied McLaren may have made a hit of Leclerc’s successful technique. “Trying on the race hint, I feel McLaren had the tempo, they simply pushed too laborious,” he advised Sky. “They had been doing a lot too quick laps early on and killed their tyres.”
He believes McLaren’s strategists had been too hesitant to think about options to 2 pit stops. “I assume they actually had deliberate for a two-stop,” mentioned Hamilton. “That’s why they had been pushing so laborious.
“If they’d simply backed off and gone longer they may for certain have made a one-stop. However I used to be getting the data of the occasions they had been doing, and there’s no manner your tyres are going to final at that tempo.”
The thought McLaren had been wedded to a two-stop technique is underlined by the haste with which they introduced Lando Norris into the pits, seizing the chance to “undercut” Leclerc for second place. Norris was shaping as much as move Leclerc on the observe on the time.
Two laps later, McLaren introduced Oscar Piastri in from the lead. His lap occasions had been holding up nicely in comparison with the second Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jnr, which had additionally not but pitted. McLaren appeared to convey him much less as a result of state of his tyres and extra as a result of they didn’t wish to let him fall behind Norris and Leclerc, who swapped positions by means of their first pit stops.
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After the race Piastri dismissed the concept that pushing too laborious early on made the one-stop technique inconceivable for McLaren. Nevertheless he conceded they may have approached the race otherwise when it comes to each techniques and, crucially, driving approach.
“I want to return and have a look at what the graining degree on Charles was once I pitted for the second time. Up till that time it was you realize a fairly managed race. We felt fairly early on that it was a two-stop race and possibly, in hindsight, there are issues we may have performed a bit otherwise from clearly a method standpoint, but additionally a driving standpoint to maintain the choices open a bit of bit extra.
“But when the data I acquired is correct, on the radio, then it wasn’t actually a matter of driving slower. It was simply form of sticking with the graining and getting by means of it.
“Which, provided that in follow when that occurred you mainly couldn’t hit the brake pedal since you turned your entrance left right into a 50 pence coin, it appeared like a really dangerous factor to take action. Clearly, it was the fitting factor in hindsight however everybody’s loads smarter when the chequered flag falls.”
Norris believes Leclerc’s skilful nursing of his front-left tyre, minimising the graining, was what allowed him to make the one-stop technique work and win the race.
“We tried, we knew it was a faster factor to do, however I feel we simply killed the tyres a bit of bit too simply,” he mentioned. “And like Oscar mentioned, whenever you’re in third, it’s a a lot simpler place to simply attempt to danger and do such a factor. So I don’t suppose we might be too disillusioned.
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“I feel it was loads riskier for us to attempt to do it than it was for Charles, and he made it work. So, yeah, hats off to them and Ferrari and himself as a result of the driving half makes a giant distinction on the market.”
2024 Italian Grand Prix lap chart
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2024 Italian Grand Prix race chart
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2024 Italian Grand Prix lap occasions
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2024 Italian Grand Prix quickest laps
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2024 Italian Grand Prix tyre methods
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2024 Italian Grand Prix pit cease occasions
How lengthy every driver’s pit stops took:
| Rank | # | Driver | Crew | Full cease time (s) | Hole to finest (s) | Cease no. | Lap no. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 23.793 | 1 | 16 | |
| 2 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Pink Bull | 24.03 | 0.237 | 2 | 35 |
| 3 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 24.146 | 0.353 | 1 | 31 |
| 4 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Pink Bull | 24.15 | 0.357 | 2 | 41 |
| 5 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 24.155 | 0.362 | 2 | 37 |
| 6 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 24.169 | 0.376 | 1 | 14 |
| 7 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 24.203 | 0.41 | 2 | 30 |
| 8 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 24.209 | 0.416 | 2 | 36 |
| 9 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jnr | Ferrari | 24.313 | 0.52 | 1 | 19 |
| 10 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 24.335 | 0.542 | 1 | 10 |
| 11 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 24.41 | 0.617 | 1 | 33 |
| 12 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 24.469 | 0.676 | 1 | 15 |
| 13 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 24.501 | 0.708 | 2 | 35 |
| 14 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 24.551 | 0.758 | 1 | 15 |
| 15 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 24.67 | 0.877 | 2 | 38 |
| 16 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Pink Bull | 24.728 | 0.935 | 1 | 23 |
| 17 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 24.801 | 1.008 | 1 | 17 |
| 18 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 24.866 | 1.073 | 1 | 12 |
| 19 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 24.87 | 1.077 | 2 | 32 |
| 20 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 24.98 | 1.187 | 1 | 19 |
| 21 | 43 | Franco Colapinto | Williams | 25.147 | 1.354 | 1 | 16 |
| 22 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 25.269 | 1.476 | 3 | 50 |
| 23 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 25.672 | 1.879 | 1 | 14 |
| 24 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 26.297 | 2.504 | 2 | 33 |
| 25 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 27.138 | 3.345 | 1 | 15 |
| 26 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Pink Bull | 28.198 | 4.405 | 1 | 22 |
| 27 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | RB | 30.317 | 6.524 | 1 | 11 |
| 28 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 32.696 | 8.903 | 1 | 11 |
| 29 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas | 36.576 | 12.783 | 2 | 32 |
| 30 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas | 38.875 | 15.082 | 1 | 5 |
