Lewis Hamilton's shrinking lead in the closing stages of the British Grand Prix had Mercedes worried...
Lewis Hamilton ’s slender lead in the closing stages of the British Grand Prix had Mercedes fretting slightly as Max Verstappen closed in.
But, try as he might, Verstappen couldn’t get close enough to launch a proper attack on Hamilton and ran out of time – ultimately coming home just 1.4 seconds behind his 2021 title rival. “When you saw him on a different tyre, the first couple of times we put in, that tyre was working well,” he explained in the Mercedes’ debrief after Silverstone.
While Hamilton opted for the soft tyre for the final stint, Verstappen proved the hard tyre was strong – perhaps the optimal tyre to be on at that point, despite the colder conditions suggesting it would be tricky to get them up to temperature.
“We’re transitioning on a track that’s just on the edge of being damp, just moving to dry and our thinking was just that the soft tyre was going to give us the best warm-up, the best chance of making ground on Lando on the out lap to try and take the lead.
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