They weren't. The rears were looking horrible. The problem is that Lando is way too timid and wasn't pushing Leclerc at all. He needed to force him to use the rears and he would only do that by divebombing and forcing a switchback by Leclerc.
His race craft seemed fine, against a person on full on defend mode. Its mot meant to be easy.McLarenMor wrote: ↑19 Oct 2025, 21:50It's not the cars, it's the driver's race craft. We saw on many occasions the lack of race craft from Lando. He is just not a good overtaker. Best example from this season, Canada, god knows what he saw there to go for that gap.
Managing to go backwards. He's killed his tyres and after the cooling cycle of the VSC the tyres wouldn't come back to life.