Aston Martin reject suggestion Monaco GP F1 tyre call ‘let Red Bull off the hook'
Alonso was running second behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen when a mid-race rain shower caused chaos and confusion, leading several drive♕rs to pit for wet weather tyres.
The Spaniard boxed for a set of medium tyres on Lap 55 with the rain still only light, but the weather dramatically turned for the worse in the followi🎃ng minutes, forcing Alonso to return to the pits for intermediates.🔯
Verstappen stayed out for longer before switching to intermediates during his sole pitstop, leaving the reigning world champion with a hug♑e gap to Alonso as he went on to seal a fourth victory in six races.
“I was surprised they took the medium tyre🌟 and that totally got us off the hook and then it was a question of getting it to the pits and having us tꦡurn the car around,” Horner said.
“I think in 20:🌸20 hindsight we should have probably pitted one lap earlier to go on to the int🐎ers.
“But thereafter, [Verstappen] was very mature when the rain came. He t🐓ook it steady and brought in the tyres and really closed out the race.”
Explaining Aston Martin’s thinking behind the call, team principal Mike Krack admitted there🦋 “was a bit of a misjudgement”.
𝄹“We did not anticipate so much rain to be honest,” Krack said.
“S♊o we thought that it would just be a short 🙈shower and dry quickly because the track was very hot.
“Honestly, we th⭕ought we could go to the end with the mediums.
“But we misjudged a bit that it was raining, because in part of the track it took very long before it started to rain and it rained 💟the least.
“Probably that was a bit of a misjudgmꦿent, because we also thought that the inters would wear down massively in this part of the track.
“At the end of the day, it was a conscious de💎cision to go on the mediums. And we saw then a lap later that it was not going to work.”
Aston Martin’s⛄ decision not to go straight on to intermediates led many to suggest the team had missed th🌃e chance to potentially end Red Bull’s winning run in 2023.
But Alonso insisted after the race that Aston Martin had 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“no chance” of𒀰 winning, adding that “in any tyre, in any condition, Max was always 15 or 20 seconds in front of us.”
And Krack echoed hꦍis star driver’s assessment, sayi༒ng: “I don’t think it was lost.
“Because if we 🧜had fitted intermediates Max would have fitted intermediates as well and he had 𝓰the gap.
“So, I don’t think it would have changed much.”
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