Monaco GP: Strategy Summary
After each Grand Prix, Motorsinside.com offers you an analysis of the different strategies used during the race.
Sebastian Vettel’s victory was largely built on adopting a one-stop strategy. The future Grand Prix winner stopped on the 16th lap to fit new hard tires that lasted for 56 laps.
Unlike Fernando Alonso, the German driver did not take advantage of the first safety car deployment to make a second pit stop. Both drivers seemed to be on the same strategy, but the Spaniard avoided any gamble by seizing the opportunity provided by the Safety Car to fit a set of new hard tires.
Jenson Button’s aggressive strategy, chaining three initial stints on worn soft tires, ultimately did not pay off even though the McLaren driver managed to catch up to the exhausts of his two rivals.
Note that all drivers, except Adrian Sutil, had fitted a new set of tires at the restart of the race, after the red flag.
REMINDER: The tires offered were the Super Softs (“Softs” on our chart) and Softs (“Hards” on our chart).
