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Originally Posted by chernaudi
Double stinting cost Toyota time at Fuji--the gained time by having shorter stops, but they gave it all back when the Audis had fresher tires on them.
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I did not see the race, but the timing data suggests that Toyota had no problem with double stinting their tyres in Fuji.
- Wurz
- stint 1: 31 laps, 1:30.100 average (new tyres)
- stint 2: 32 laps, 1:30.556 average
- Lapierre
- stint 1: 31 laps, 1:30.211 average (new tyres)
- stint 2: 32 laps, 1:30.242 average
- Nakajima
- stint 1: 32 laps, 1:29.580 average (new tyres)
- stint 2: 31 laps, 1:29.955 average
- stint 3: 31 laps, 1:29.903 average (new tyres)
- stint 4: 13 laps, 1:29.856 average
The TS030 is still gentle on its tyres. Toyota only single stinted in Bahrain, but that also had to do driver fatigue in the extreme hot conditions.