TACTICS
Treading carefully
When Williams’ Alex Albon crashed out in Melbourne, it put Formula 1 teams in a quandary. Mark Hughes explains how the stoppage led to much head-scratching about tyre strategy
TEAM TACTICS
Alex Albon sprints from his stranded car but, with 51 laps of the race still to go, it was a tough call for teams whether they should pit.
Lewis
Hamilton remained out
The strategic Y-point of this race was Alex Albon’s lap seven accident. It was always set to be a one-stop race, ideally with a medium-hard sequence. The C4 soft didn’t have the range to comfortably make a one-stop feasible and wasn’t sufficiently faster to buy the extra 20-odd seconds needed for a two-stop.