Cooldown room reveals F1 Austrian Grand Prix strategy insight: “Do you think it was the right choice?”
The podium trio cam🧸e together in the cooldown room ♐at the Red Bull Ring, after Verstappen won again to extend his dominance in the F1 standings.
The reigning champion said to Fওerrari’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 t💫hat was the right choice? The tyres were♊ fine after that?”
Verstappen: “Erm… yeah. I mean, it was not fantastic. But it was not too much, in com🐼parison. But the deg was still q🐻uite high.”
Leclerc: “More than what I expected, actually.”
Vers🐠tappen: “We could have also stopped. It would have been almost the same.”
Leclerc: “Yeah.”
The Ferrari drive🙈r then said: “🙈Turn 3 was really tricky.”
Verstappen: “Slippery, huh?”
Leclerc: ♕“Yeah, the rear, I was really strugglin♛g with.”
Verstappen: “You did medium, medium, hard?”
Leclerc: “Y꧑es. The hard was not amazing, no. What did you finish on? Hards?”
Verstappen: “Hards.”
Leclerc🐠: “You stopped more or less theꦇ same time that I did?”
Perez then entered, and Leclerc asked him: “I don’t 🔯remember when you stopped?”
Verstappen interjected: “Lap 21 or something.”
Perez: “Did you stop earlier?”
Leclerc: “Wa🏅it. You stopped 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 j﷽ournalist at Sky Sports for a decade📖 covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
