ringo wrote: ↑01 Jun 2025, 19:55
The hard tyre was the best choice. He would have went backward on the used soft.
What people are failing to remember is that Max made a mistake at the restart by spinning up the tyres and losing control of the car. Had he been easier on the throttle and accept that he may lose a place on the restart, he would have overtaken Leclerc when the hards warmed up.
His pace was very good on the hard. His three mistakes today were the restart, not avoiding Charles, His two run ins with his bestie George. Otherwise he would have been at worst P4 and at best P3.
The hard tyre was the bad choice. Nobody used the hard tyre in that race, for one simple reason, it sucked hard in the practice. Max wasn't aware that he was being put in the hard tyre and immediately noted that something was wrong with his tyre when he left the pit.
Max did not make any mistake, the tyres made him spin. He saved the car beautifully. The car had no grip and was terrible, especially after a safetycar.
His pace was very bad on the hard. He had no chance to do better than P5. With his old softs, he would have started P1 with only 6 laps remaining.
Reb Bull made the worst possible choice, and that would deserve the title of worst choice of the year in my opinion. It was even worse because it put Max on the backfoot and made him very angry.
