They do have time to think 'oh, should we just wait one more minute'. "The question is, did Red Bull have time to react? They only tell Verstappen to box out of Turn 19 so they're trying to tell him quite late.
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"I went through the radio comms again and Verstappen is complaining about his tyres and is pushing for the pit stop and so before they have seen on TV and probably before the incident they've decided they want to do the pit stop. Karun Chandhok and Bernie Collins analyse Verstappen's early pit stop before the Safety Car at the Azerbaijan GPĪnalysis from Sky Sports F1 pundit and former Aston Martin head of race strategy Bernie Collins… "Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't." Did Red Bull make a mistake or were they unlucky? It was only subsequently on replays that you saw the track rod was broken. Usually if you see a car in the barriers here it's Safety Car but there was no sign of it having hit the barrier. There was a quick shot of him and it was a black set of lines looking like he had outbraked himself, gone straight on and hadn't hit the barrier. "We didn't have the visibility of De Vries. "With 20-20 vision we would have just done one more lap and gone from there but at that point you don't know if Charles (Leclerc) is going to pit and suddenly he jumps both of them. You never expected that to go to a Safety Car. "From a strategy point of view it was the optimum time to take the stop and the glimpse we got of De Vries, all four wheels are on the car, he's not hit the barrier and the engine was running so it looked like he would select reverse and carry on. Verstappen has seen his championship lead over Perez cut to six points after the Mexican's victory in Sunday's Grand Prix and Saturday's Sprint in Baku.Ĭhristian Horner felt Sergio Perez was 'phenomenal' all weekend and Perez's fortune was Verstappen's misfortune after taking an early pit stop So then at one point, I just settled in, tried to do a little bit my own thing to not damage the tyres completely to the end." "I probably damaged my tyres a bit too much early on for such a long stint.
I think one time I was pretty close to getting it, but it was just hanging in there really close, trying to really catch up. "After the Safety Car, I tried to put the pressure on Checo to try and get into that DRS. While Verstappen was able to swiftly pass Leclerc on the Safety Car restart, the Dutchman felt his attempts to immediately put the pressure on Perez cost him the chance to attack later in the race. But I always know that the team tries to do the best thing and maybe just today we got unlucky."
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Red Bull driver Verstappen says he was unlucky with the timing of the Safety Car at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix
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