As per the latest news, the silver Mercedes train walks on; however the main stupendous Prix of the 2016 Formula 1 season will be recognized as one that Ferrari discarded.
The platform in Melbourne had an exceptionally natural feel – a Mercedes one-two, with Nico Rosberg driving Lewis Hamilton home after the title holder made a poor begin, and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel third – however it was a race Ferrari let sneak past their fingers.
Ferrari team essential Maurizio Arrivabene was asked specifically whether he saw it as a race the team had lost through their own particular choices, and he said: “No.”
Others were less beneficent. “They botched it up,” said a senior figure from an opponent team.
After a flying begin, Vettel was driving the race until it was halted after 18 laps taking after an unnerving mishap from which McLaren’s Fernando Alonso tolerantly developed unhurt in spite of barrel-moving after a 180mph contact with Esteban Gutierrez’s Haas.
Vettel had just as of late ceased to fit a crisp arrangement of super-delicate tires and Ferrari stayed on them, knowing there was no trust of making it to the end of the race and that the German would need to make an additional stop. Mercedes took an alternate highway, one that one engineer said was “an easy decision”. Hamilton, stuck in activity after a terrible begin, had as of now been put on mediums at his stop with the point of setting off to the end of the race on them.
The warning gave Mercedes strategists, drove by James Vowles, the opportunity to put Rosberg on the same system. It was fringe, yet they were certain they could make it work.
Beyond any doubt enough, Rosberg lost no time in the 17 laps before Vettel’s last pit stop and when the Ferrari peeled into the pits, the race was taken care of.
In one choice, Ferrari had transformed a triumph into a third place. Vettel returned at Hamilton in the end laps however passing was continually going to be troublesome on this track and it got to be outlandish when he spun with two laps to go. Wolff said, “This is a global sport,” he said, “and we have to acknowledge we have a responsibility and changing the rules every week is not the right way forward.
“There are for sure ways of optimizing qualifying and maybe even the race. But what we need is to properly assess what is right and wrong and not have erratic decision-making.”
