Shanghai 2008: Pitstop & Tyre Strategies

good stuff 🙂

Missing data added, thanks to Autosport finally putting there tyre-strategy article up.

That looks like a lot of work. I am surprised how many teams ran two sets of softs. I was expecting everyone to run two lots of hards. I am also curious about Kubica not changing tyres at his first stop. I haven’t seen anyone do that in a long time.

@Gusto: You don’t ask for much, do you! 😀 The thing with the fuel weight is that this post goes up after the race, so therefore it is relatively safe to assume the drivers were running their tanks down before each stop. The only time when they wouldn’t is if a driver changed his strategy at the first stop.

I’ll see about the track temperatures for the 2009 season.

@Steven: It wasn’t all that hard to collate actually. My notepad has lots of lines similar to this:

31 – NAK – HARD || FIS – SOFT
32 – ROS – SOFT
34 – COU – HARD || SUT – HARD

The only hard thing is tracking the teams that don’t get air-time. Knowing they’ve stopped is easy thanks to the Live Timing, but knowing what tyre they put on is harder to see.

@Craig: He did. Coulthard started on soft and changed to hard at his only pitstop. Although, there was an error on this page earlier relating to Coulthard, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt! 😉

@Craig: Thanks man. I wasn’t offended, so please don’t read anything into my tone. I was actually responding to Gusto when my emails said I had another couple of comments on the post. I had to faf around copying text and refreshing blah blah blah. So I was a bit short with the comment.

Is it correct though, DC stopping on lap 31? I did have a second stop up earlier, but that’s because I forgot to delete a dummy bit of code. Should be easier next race, and then I’ll forget about this until about this time next season and reintroduce it! 😀

plus do everything else I know you do during the race

You know about me sipping Martini’s on a luxury yacht in the Med while trained monkeys hack away at my keyboard writing this stuff!? 🙂

Oh, Sidepodcast mentioned during the recording of F1 Debrief Episode 81 that the order of this table seems a bit strange. The reason why Honda are at the bottom is because I completely forgot about them due to the team receiving so little air-time – I didn’t get to mark down their stats. And by the time I remembered, I just tagged them onto the end. I’ll get it right next time, but for now, this is in Ollie-Order.