Examining whether traffic for Kimi Raikkonen after his pit-stop or Sebastian Vettel's fast laps before his stop was decisive... What do the lap charts show us?We pick up the story just before the one and only round of pit stops when both Raikkonen and Vettel were running in the low 1:17s. The charts confirm there was no discernible drop-off in Raikkonen's pace to necessitate a stop - his time on Lap 33 was the best he had set for half-a-dozen laps - as he maintained a 1.2-second advantage over his team-mate. The critical laps around Ferrari's pit-stops Lap Raikkonen Vettel 30 1:17.105 1:16.636 31 1:17.074 1:17.166 32 1:17.663 1:17.052 33 1:17.034 1:17.188 34 1:34.039 1:16.592 35 1:19.518...
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