Cooldown room reveals F1 Austrian Grand Prix strategy insight: “Do you think it was the right choice?”
The podium trio came together in the cooldown room at the Red Bull Ring, after Verstap🧜pen won again to extend💮 his dominance in the F1 standings.
The reigning champio𒈔n said🙈 to Ferrari’s Leclerc, who was the runner-up: “When the Safety Car stopped, the tyres… were on the edge, every time, at every stint.”
Leclerc: “You didn’t stop?”
Verstappen: “No, I kept on going.”
Leclerc: “Do you think that was the right choice? The tyres were fine after🐼ꦜ that?”
Verstappen: “Erm… yeah. I mean, it was not fantastic. But it was not too much, in comparison. But the deg🐠 was still quite high.”
Leclerc: “More than what I expected, actually.”
Verstappen: “We could have also stopped. It would ha🐻ve been almost the same.”
Leclerc: “Yeah.”
The Ferrari driver then said: “Turn 3 was really t🃏ricky.”
Verstappen: “Slippery, huh?”
Leclerc: “Yeah, the rear꧟, I was really struggling with.”
Verstappen: “You did medium, medium, hard?”
Lecler♋c: “Yes. The hard was not amazing, no. What did you finish on? Hards?”
Verstappen: “Hards.”
Leclerc: “You stopped moꦚre or less the same time that I did?”
Perez then entered, and Leclerc as🧜ked him: “I don’t remember when you stopped?”
Verstappen interjected: “Lap 21 or something.”
Perez: “Did you stop earlier?”
Leclerc: “Wait. You s♒topped on the hards, on Lap 21?”
“Verstappen: No, no. I did medium, hard, medium.”
Leclerc: “Oh, OK.”
Perez: “Oh, you were on the mediums?”
Verstappen: “Yes, we did the opposite.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from⛦ American sports, to football, to F1.
