Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas searched for answers after the race. How could Max Verstappen’s tires be so good, while the Mercedes drivers had blisters on them?
“We were still thinking about a one stopper, but the tires couldn’t make it. We got a lot of blistering, even on the hard tire. Even with extreme tire management we couldn’t get it under control. So we did something wrong somewhere. during the weekend. But my congratulations to Max, he did a great job “, Hamilton in conversation with, among others RacingNews365 know.
Bottas was also looking for answers: “It is clear that we have to improve compared to Red Bull. I saw Max’s tires at the end of the race and they were in perfect condition, while Lewis’s and mine had a lot of blisters. at the moment we don’t yet know why this was.
“We had to manage our tires extremely in the fast corners, it seemed that Max was very comfortable in these fast corners.”
Bottas managed to keep the gap fairly constant at about three seconds in the last stint, until he turned on in an attempt to catch up with Verstappen: “My tires went completely. We should have continued longer in the second. stint, because the last stint was way too long for us. “
With the cooperation of Dieter Rencken.
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