UgncreativeUsergname wrote:Louis Chiron for ROTR!
In his defence he made two unscheduled stops, each just after his first two scheduled stops, hence his low position. He had been on the same strategy as de Graffenried and Uria and was ahead of both until his race fell apart.
Just looked into everyone's pitstops in the replay, while most stubbornly decided to stick with a three stop strategy in spite of the fact that fully fresh tyres here gave you as many as five seconds over fully worn ones. Parsons, Niell, Bira and Kelly did four stops, the first of which was around lap 15 meaning that they had around 25 laps of having fresher tyres than everyone else. Only Parsons managed to use that advantage to its full potential by making sure that he always stopped at different points to the leaders while Niell and Bira foolishly made the rest of their stops in sequence with the more conservative strategies meaning they lost their advantage for the rest of the race. Kelly had his race ruined first when he hit the wall which together with a stop for repairs cost him a lap, then he dropped back further when he spun.
Finally there was an alternate three stop strategy which de Graffenried, Uria, Junkova, Chiron and Stuck were on, the latter two of course had their races ruined before they could work properly. This involved making their pitstops about ten laps sooner than everyone else on the three stop strategies which gave them ten laps of fresher tyres and allowing them to gain back all the time they lost from the pitstop but came with the disadvantage of slower pace once the others made their their stops. De Graffenried started out the final stint just behind Villoresi but by the time the finish came he had lost thirty seconds and was almost caught by Rubirosa.
As for ROTR I'd give it to Lundgren, his crash was pretty comical. He planted his car into a tyre barrier while attempting to overtake Gaze around the outside of a tight left-hander.
