Schumacher Could Have Finished 6th, Could Button Have Made the Podium?

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Published: July 11, 2011

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Michael Schumacher had a particularly good British Grand Prix. He finished ninth and scored two points for Mercedes. But he could have finished much higher up.

He had to pit to change his front wing after crashing into Kamui Kobayashi on lap nine, but this was in the window to make the switch to slick tyres, reducing the disadvantage of having to make the extra pit stop to replace his damaged nose cone. Nevertheless, cruising slowly to the pits and changing the nose as opposed to merely changing the four wheels and tyres cost him sixteen seconds.

He was then given a ten second stop and go penalty for the incident with Kamui. That cost him a further sixteen seconds, with Silverstone’s fast pit lane, which skips the tight left – right sequence of Club, necessitating a ten second stop go rather than the more usual drive through penalty.

Meanwhile, Schumacher’s teammate, Nico Rosberg, pitted on lap 12 to change to slick tyres and continued without hindrance to his next pit stop on lap 30. Schumacher came in again on the next lap, after which the two drivers produced remarkably similar lap times from that point to the end of the race.

In fact, Rosberg was just 1.325 seconds faster over that entire twenty lap period. This shows that both drivers are at the top of their game, and their remarkable consistency suggests they were getting very close to extracting the maximum performance from their cars.



At the finish Schumacher was 17 seconds behind his teammate, and so it is very likely that without the Kobayashi accident, his strong drive would have resulted in a comfortable sixth place and ‘best of the rest’ behind the Red Bull’s, Ferrari’s and Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren.

The Mercedes is now firmly established as just that: best of the rest. In Valencia, Rosberg was 38 seconds behind Jenson Button’s McLaren. At Silverstone, he was 32 seconds...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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