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Also when comparing Sainz and Leclerc’s Q2 laps, where neither got a tow, they both got 333 so they were running the same drag level. Carlos was passing cars so I’m guessing the 344 was a lap when he got right up to someone’s gearbox for an overtake. I haven’t gone back and checked what happened on those laps, but Max was right behind Leclerc so his situation was pretty consistent. On lap 8 Max topped out at 338 and Carlos 339. I checked the telemetry for a couple of laps early in the race when both Max and Carlos had DRS available (laps 8 and 10). I’m guessing because Ferrari run a bigger rear wing than Red Bull, so when the DRS is open it minimises that difference between the cars. The Red Bulls were quicker in a straight line without DRS, but the gap was smaller with DRS.

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“We come out from here, Le Castellet, with full confidence in our package, in our drivers’ capacity and our speed.”

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So proving once again that our car is great, gentle tyre management, the drivers as well are doing the proper job. “I think at the time when Max stopped, when he was starting to suffer from tyre degradations, Charles was gaining two or three tenths per lap on him. By lap 15 Max had to stop, we could have extended the stint and we were extending the stint. I think we had an edge on the Red Bull in terms of tyre degradation. “Charles got the pole, he was leading the race.

I think that Carlos race as well showed that. “The car has proved to be very competitive. “I think, again, it has been a good weekend in terms of pace,” he said. However Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto pointed out their car was treating its tyres better than the pursuing Red Bull, and believes they were in a competitive position before Leclerc’s crash. “Again, you can see it’s very, very tight between the two teams with a very different approach to achieving the lap time here,” he added. Had Leclerc pitted and come out behind Verstappen, Horner believes “we’d have been able to defend reasonably comfortably with the speed that we had in sector two.”

So therefore that’s why we banked the track position.” Unfortunately we couldn’t get close enough through six onto the straight to really capitalise on the DRS. “But the race was running okay, he was going with him in the DRS. “We were, as we’ve seen in the rest of the weekend, very quick in sector two, similar in one and a bit slower in three, which is mainly turn 11 here.Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free “It was interesting because Max was able to stay much closer to Charles for a long period of time without the tyre getting stratospherically hot,” he said. However Horner is confident that Verstappen’s superior speed on the straight would have been enough to contain the Ferrari. Leclerc’s crash meant the contest between the pair which would have unfolded never occured. So from that point it was just a matter of bringing the tyres in nicely and then the following lap obviously Charles crashed.” “We decided that on lap 15, we saw a little bit of track space that we could drop Max into, pulled the trigger, by halfway around the lap he had track position.

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Within his first lap of coming out of the pits, Verstappen drew close enough to Leclerc that the Ferrari driver would fall behind him when he pitted. “Going into the race we were more leaning towards two, as the race unfolded we started to move more towards the one-stop.” “The tyre deg was better than we expected going into the race, to be honest,” he told media including RaceFans. However the tyre degradation proved less severe than predicted. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said they went into the race expecting they would have to make two pit stops. Verstappen, who had chased him hard over the opening laps, had already made his first pit stop by that point.

Leclerc led every lap of the race until he went into a barrier on lap 18.