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 Vers🌱tappen won again to extend his domina꧟nce in the F1 standings.
The reigning champion 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 ಌafter that?”
Verstappen: “Erm… yeah. I mean, it was not fantastic. But it was not too much, in comparis♒on. But the deg was still quite high.”
Leclerc: “More than what I expected, actually.”
Verstappen: “ꦓWe could have also stopped. It would have been almost the same.”
Leclerc: “Yeah.”
The Ferrari driver tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhen sai𝓀d: “Turn 3 was really tricky.”
Verstappen: “Slippery, huh?”
Leclerc: “Yeah,🥀 the rear, I was really struggling with.”
Verstappen: “You did medium, medium, hard?”
Le𒆙clerc: “Yes. The hard was not amazing, no. What did you finish on? Har🐟ds?”
Verstappen: “Hards.”
Lec𒁏lerc: “You stopped more or less the sam✅e time that I did?”
Perez th🐈en entered, and Leclerc asked him: “I don’t remember when you stopp🍃ed?”
Verstappen interjected: “Lap 21 or something.”
Perez: “Did you stop earlier?”
Leclerc: “Wait. You stopped on ꦫthe hards, on Lap 2📖1?”
“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.
