Christian Horner baffled by McLaren’s strategy: “Maybe they’ll look back with hindsight…”
Christian Horner was puzzled by McLaren's strategy with Lando Norris at the British Grand Pri𝔍x.
Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner has questioned McLaren’s strategy at the British Grand Prix not to put 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris on the medium tyres for the final stint.
Norris took the lead af𒁏ter showing great pace during the crossover period to t♒he intermediates.
However, the race went in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton’s favour🧸 after Mercedes decided to pit for slicks one lap earlier than McLaren didꦦ.
This handed Hamilton track position but Norris was still in ൲contention given Mercedes opted for the less durab🎐le soft.
But McLaren put Norris on the soft, which degraded heavily, causing him to lose out to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen.
It was another missed opportunity for McLaren, who continue to underperform despite having a quicker car than Red Bull ✨🌺at Silverstone.
Speaking after the race, Horner said: “[McLar♔en] had a new medium in their pocket. Merce🧜des didn’t, we didn’t. Wow. I fully expected to see a yellow set of tyres go on there. Maybe they will look back with hindsight…
“You’ve got🌸 to congratulate Lewis. He is a fierce competitor, I know this one means a lot to him. A popular win, and well-deserved.”
Horner described the race overall was “bizarre” and felt running on the hards with Verstappen💯 at the end gave them the best opportunity to maximise ꦰtheir result.
“We nearly ended up winning it. ▨It was a bizarre race. In the first part, we ♏just didn’t have the pace on the medium tyre,” he added.
“Mercedes looked li☂ke they’d got it under control. Then the rain came and McLaren looked like they’d got it under control. We were dropping off the back of it. At that point, I was worr♍ied about Carlos Sainz who was having a go at Max.
“We made the call to go onto the inter at the right time. That༒ one lap extra, on the in🦩ter, while it leapfrogged us into third, I think we damaged the tyre a bit on that lap.
“Until the others got deg as well, we dropped off. We started coming back, things levelled out. Then it was about which tyre you take for the final stint. We’d seen that the softs didn’t lo🍒ok great, doing six or seven laps before falling apart for other cars at the start of the race. So we went for the hard tyre. It was our best chance.”
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