Originally Posted by TigerBlood:
“I wish I could say it's a shame that we will never find out how it will work out, but from what you've said it seems a very bizarre decision to have qualified on a slower tyre when there was rain forecast, and when the likelihood of rain based on local knowledge would have been huge.”
I suppose it was a fairly well considered decision.
I mean, if Button or Hamilton had deliberately traded a chance at pole for, say, 7th place on the hard tyre it would have been a dodgy gamble but, given that Vettel managed to qualify just behind Webber anyway, he probably figured that it was worth trading 4th or 5th on the grid for the possibility of one less stop during a dry race.
If it'd worked out he might've had an advantage and, as it turned out, he didn't really seem to suffer much of a
disadvantage.