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Originally Posted by David70
Your theory is RB purposely handicapped Alban? For what purpose? He scored less than half the points and came in 7th compared to 3rd, not even close.
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Indeed.
Assuming that Verstappen is given the optimum set up in terms of downforce vrs top speed for any given track and the optimum pit stop strategy in terms of tyre type and number of stops....then why give a (what is by definition a sub optimum) different strategy to your second driver...especially when a lower downforce set up must surely make the car harder to drive?
By comparison the Mercedes drivers had a smaller delta in top speeds and almost always the same tyres and pit stop strategy.
Also interesting is that Verstappen and Hamiltons maximum trap speeds were much closer but with Verstappens max speeds being higher 2/3 of the time.