TYRED AND EMOTIONAL
As ever, the Pirelli ‘possible race strategies infographic is giving us a bit of a giggle. Will anyone be doing a one-stopper in which they move from soft or mediums to hards today? What are the chances? About the same as Elvis landing in our new office.
One-stopper soft-medium, pit window laps 24-30, sounds more likely.
Alternative is a two-stopper, soft-medium-medium or soft-medium-soft. That’ll suit Max Verstappen, who has two new sets of mediums and three news sets of softs after his early exit from qualifying.
The McLaren drivers, meanwhile, have new mediums at their disposal (two sets for Norris) but their softs have all done time of some sort. Charles Leclerc is in the same boat, as are the Mercedes drivers – technically Russell has no new mediums available but one set is essentially just scrubbed.