KR was on a much lighter fuel load which enabled him to open up that lead,
and RS cut it in half in just the last handful of laps before his pit stop.
****JPM followed RB for 36 laps without coming close to attempting any kind
of a pass.****
Where was the "racer" then? Lol. Was it the "racer's" strategy to drop 19
seconds behind RS by the end of the race? Never heard of that one before.
Face facts. He only got past MS because MS's car suddenly dropped a second
off the pace due to bad tires. Of course he passed him. If MS didn't have a
bad set of tires, that wouldn't of happened. JPM would of languished way
behind MS for the rest of the race, just like he did behind RB. All JPM had
to do was wait a few seconds and pass MS on one of the long straights, but
instead he did something dumb and tried a pass on the outside at the Dunlop
curve, squeezed MS more than necessary, and there was an accident.
But hey, JPM fans are desperate to find anything to cheer about with the way
he's failed to be anything more than a nat buzzing around MS's face, and RS
has beaten him by every measure (qualifying, points, race speed, wins).
If you were a full second per lap faster than me in yesterday's RASCAR race,
would you have made an extremely tight pass on me in that tight right T3 (or
is it T4) on the outside, or waited until some spot which was safer?
David G Fisher