There was no advantage, unless you count the 2-3 tenths of aa second lead he had going into the pits. Commentators you were listening to are morons, you were no doubt watching BBC. Tell me how there is an advantage to being the one further down the track? You can't release into the track if the other car is even remotely close to yours. They had it completely wrong. The guy with the nearer pit area has the advantage.