Mercedes ultimately made the incorrect call on Sunday, but the team have explained their reasoning behind their strategy. F1
and ex-F1 driver Jolyon Palmer were also critical of the eight-time former Constructors’ champions.
“And in the race, it’s probably worth speaking to other teams, but we certainly had the belief the soft-medium may just in the best of circumstances be possible, but it would be right on the limit in terms of where you’re taking the tyres, mainly from a degradation perspective, not from a wear perspective, whereas a medium-hard could be a nailed-on one-stop.
“But the other thought we had is starting on the mediums doesn’t stop you two-stopping, doesn’t stop you fitting the softs later like Daniel [Ricciardo] did, so it doesn’t close your options off. “Red Bull are probably, within the pit lane, the best at pit-stops and it’s rare for them to make a mistake like they did in Austin, and you wouldn’t really factor it in.
“Start on the softs, probably finish exactly where you end up. Start on the mediums, it may provide other opportunities – it didn’t. We did the wrong thing, we should have started on the softs, but I’m not too upset with where we ended up.”
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