Stroll confused by "terrible" graining issue during Turkish F1 GP

L💜ance Stroll was left perplexed by his lack of pace during🐼 the second half of the Turkish F1 Grand Prix.
Stroll stormed to a shock maiden pole on Saturd🌊ay and dominated the opening laps of the race in Turkey.
Things started to go wrong for Canadian driver when Racing Point 💧opted to pit him for a second set of intermediates from the lead despite questioning the call over team radio.
Followin💖g his second pit stop, Stroll 𓆏dropped to fourth place but then was quickly overtaken by the two Ferraris, Alexander Albon, Carlos Sainz and later Lando Norris.
Stroll ultimately finished the race 🌃in ninth place and he was left confused by his pac♏e after his second pit stop after dominated the early part of the grand prix from pole position.
“It was [a] new [set of tyres], but just grained again massivelꦯy, no pace,” Stroll said. “So we have to look into it, [it] was pretty terrible today.
“I mean I don’t understand, we had so much graining on the f🐈irst set of Inters, we decided to pit, [we] were losing seconds per lap. don’t kno🏅w where the graining came from, it happened instantly.
“It’s frustrating when you’re in the lead by 10 seconds and you finish ninth, I don’t under♈stand how it happened. I mean I do, it’s graining, but we need to lo♎ok into why it hit me so much.”
Racing Point opted to keep tea🧸mmate Sergio Perez out on the sameꦬ set of intermediates for the remainder of the race.
Perez came home in second place t✅o ensure Racing Point maintained third in the constructors' champiꦜonship over McLaren and Renault going into the final three races of 2020.

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