more advanced on the degradation curve, but is stopping earlier. Because the tyre wear on the car is worse -- this being the reason for the whole scenario -- it is unlikely that a huge amount of time will be made up. This means that before the second the car is about where it started in the race, but has an additional pitsop to make up. It becomes a difficult situation to make work. if you look back to Silverstone, you can see a good example where the softer tyre is not a good race tyre at the end of the race, so it is also very track specific. Wow! On the graph you can really see how much time Perez lost when trying to get past Kimi! In both stints! Also it's interesting that it looks like Button's pace on the Hard tyres was better than Hamilton's. Would've been nice to see how that ended "McLaren has a scary speed advantage and I am not sure how Hamilton can claim that his car is not the best out there right now." I'm not sure about that. Alonso's race pace was comparable, especially bearing in mind how much running he had to do in traffic. Pretty competitive in qualifying (apart from the roll bar problem), too. Had Alonso been able to qualify in second, it would have been a much closer race. Ferrari have certainly upped their game since the last race. McLaren probably still have the fastest car, but