Ritomo Miyata looked like he had Autopolis SFormula victory in his grasp - but in the end he finished second-best to Liam Lawson. Here's how the TOM'S man let the chance slip:
TOM’S driver Ritomo Miyata was in the thick of the fight for Super Formula victory for the second race in a row at Autopolis - but a strategy miscue arguably cost him a strong chance of beating eventual winner Liam Lawson.Around 15 laps into the 41-lap race at the flowing Kyushu track, Lawson’s decision to pit early looked like it wasn’t going to pay dividends.
The gap stayed at 30.9s for another lap as Lawson lost time trapped behind Kazuto Kotaka, but once he cleared the Kondo Racing man at the start of lap 21, he finally had clear air ahead of him. While Miyata continued to close in on Tsuboi, he was no longer gaining on Lawson, who started lapping around seven to eight tenths a lap faster.
“In terms of the gap to Liam, and how close I really was to Tsuboi, during those laps I think we made a mistake with the decision [not to come in],” said Miyata in the post-race press conference. “We should have come in around that time.”Of course, had Miyata come in around lap 22 or 23, then Tsuboi probably would have responded by pitting next time.
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