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**fedelwfget** · 06-23-2010, 01:21 AM

Thing is though, in recent years a three or even four-stopper was usually theoretically fastest. And yet you only rarely saw three stops, and virtually never four. Why? Track position - the risk of getting bottled up in a race ruining Trulli-train scenario behind a one-stopper was far too high.

And - for that exact reason - if you balance things on a knife-edge between X-stops or Y-stops, leading teams will almost ALWAYS choose the option with fewer stops, even if more stops is nominally faster.

06-23-2010, 01:21 AM	#17
fedelwfget Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 411 Senior Member	Thing is though, in recent years a three or even four-stopper was usually theoretically fastest. And yet you only rarely saw three stops, and virtually never four. Why? Track position - the risk of getting bottled up in a race ruining Trulli-train scenario behind a one-stopper was far too high. And - for that exact reason - if you balance things on a knife-edge between X-stops or Y-stops, leading teams will almost ALWAYS choose the option with fewer stops, even if more stops is nominally faster.
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