I wonder if that was just kinda "lucky" for McLaren or if they knew what they were doing?
If nobody had pitted it would have just been a race of attrition and Hamilton, Alonso and Vettel would probably all have been passed by Grosjean and co.
By pitting and then getting back within 14s of Vettel and Alonso, McLaren pretty-much forced Vettel and Alonso to stay out and hope for the best, thus harming their end result even more.
Vettel must be thinking that even if he'd pitted after Hamilton (and, thus, ended up behind him) he'd have had more laps to catch and pass Alonso.
Nice to see Grosjean doing well too.
It's great to see somebody who was considered unfit for F1 outperform a team-mate who was a world champion.
Also, congratulations to Button for a hard fought, erm, 16th place in the same car as the winner.
If nobody had pitted it would have just been a race of attrition and Hamilton, Alonso and Vettel would probably all have been passed by Grosjean and co.
By pitting and then getting back within 14s of Vettel and Alonso, McLaren pretty-much forced Vettel and Alonso to stay out and hope for the best, thus harming their end result even more.
Vettel must be thinking that even if he'd pitted after Hamilton (and, thus, ended up behind him) he'd have had more laps to catch and pass Alonso.
Nice to see Grosjean doing well too.
It's great to see somebody who was considered unfit for F1 outperform a team-mate who was a world champion.
Also, congratulations to Button for a hard fought, erm, 16th place in the same car as the winner.



