Not fresh enough to make up for the loss of track position. Especially bearing in mind he was leading!
Whilst I'm commenting on Ferrari's usual tactical ineptitude, it was clear they should have brought Vettel in a lap or two earlier as he lost a 3 or so seconds on those last two laps on the old rubber with the traffic (that the pit crew would/should know was coming).
It isn't just the regs it is that Pirelli can't make decent F1 tyres. They never have in the past. They were always thrashed by Michelin, Bridgestone, Goodyear etc.
At least we know Urkel won’t do anything stupid. Bring it home is all he’ll care about. Of course he’ll do all he can for his teammate. LOL.
Maybe they could do better if they didn’t have to make half a dozen different dry compounds. Maybe they could try one dry, one inter and one wet for just one season and see the improvement in the racing. But Napoleon Todt knows best, frikkin pipsqueak dictator.
I'm not sure only one dry compound would be a good idea because they have enough trouble as it is getting tyres that work on the different tracks so you'd likely end up with a tyre that didn't work anywhere - plus risking a repeat on the Indy farce if it turns out to really not work.