The question that all Formula 1 fans ask themselves is:What would have happened if they had put the intermediates at the Fernando Alonso stop?
It is difficult to predict, but at Red Bull they already assumed that Alonso would have “tightened” Verstappen except for the mistake.
Verstappen dropped with his statements after the race the ‘fear’ I had for having the Asturian behind, and Horner has also confessed that Alonso was a threat when it appeared The rain.
At that time, in Red Bull decided to wait considering its advantage. To your surprise, in Aston Martin put dry tires in the rain about him Principality.
“I was surprised that they used the medium tire, so that set us free from trouble. Then it was a matter of ‘okay Max, he takes the car back home’, Horner acknowledged in ‘Racing News’.
“Basically, when we saw him come out of the pits with dry tires it was a matter of ‘Do not even try’“, he added.
Why did Red Bull decide to wait for Aston Martin to stop first?
Horner did not want to risk: “We had a lot of margin, we didn’t need to press and make a mistake in the decision“.
“We had the time and the circuit was not as if it was flooded by rain, so that gave us the chance to lose four, five, six seconds in one turn and still get ahead of Fernando“, he explained.
