Mercedes believes failure to prepare its tyres better for the low grip conditions at the end of qualifying for Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix cost it a shot at pole.
With a storm blowing across the Interlagos circuit for the Q3 segment of qualifying, teams knew that getting out on track early enough before the rain started was critical to secure a good grid slot. But although Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were third and fourth in the queue at the end of the pitlane for the start of Q3, behind the two Aston Martins, they subsequently did not make the most of the opportunity to get their tyres into the right operating window.
” Wolff felt that, amid the mixed conditions that were thrown up in Q3, any spot on the grid between P1 and P8 was possible. Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin felt that Mercedes had done the right thing to queue up in the pitlane, but had not factored in the tyre temperature factor. “For what turned out to be our final run, we left the garage early and queued at the end of the pitlane,” said Shovlin.
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