Germany disaster for Ferrari
I don’t know the reason but Ferrari’s strategy seems to be really weak this year. They have committed more judgmental errors than probably any other team has done all year long. Remember their decision to keep on the worn out tires on Kimi’s car at British Grand Prix. All this is causing Ferrari drivers to lose critical points and a chance to win the championship.
On the other hand if you take a look at the McLaren’s strategy you will always find that during the qualifying they fuel their drivers (especially Hamilton) a lap or two less on fuels than the Ferrari drivers. A lap of additional fuel is worth about 0.2 of a second per lap. Today they were something like two laps short of fuel and hence they were 0.4 of a second quicker per lap as compared to Ferrari.
Unless there is a difference in the performance of two cars (which is not the case here) there is no way that you can bridge this gap. This is what brought McLaren the win today and Ferrari the disaster of Germany.
