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 Verstappen won again t🀅o extend his dominance in the F1 standings.
The reigning champion said to Ferrari’s Leclerc, who was the runner-up: “Whe𝕴n 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 choiꩵceꦐ? The tyres were fine after that?”
Verstappen: “Erm… yeah. I mean, it was not fantastic. But it was not too much, in compariso💜n. But the deg was still quite high.”
Leclerc: “More than what I expected, actually.”
Verstappen: “We could have also stopped. It would have been🐬 almost🉐 the same.”
Leclerc: “Yeah.”
The Ferrꦡari dr꧒iver then said: “Turn 3 was really tricky.”
Verstappen: “Slippery, huh?”
Leclerc: “Yeah, the rear, I was r꧅eally strugg🙈ling with.”
Verstappen: “You did medium, medium, hard?”
Leclerc: “🥃Yes. The hard was not amazing, no. What did you finish on? Hards?”
Verstappen: “Hards.”
Leclerc: “You stopp꧙ed more or less the same time that I d🐭id?”
Perez then entered, and🧔 Leclerc asked him: “I don’t remember when ꦛyou stopped?”
Verstappen interjected: “Lap 21 or something.”
Perez: “Did you stop earlier?”
Leclerc: “Wait. You stoppedꩲ 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 a๊ decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
