MONDAY MORNING DEBRIEF: ‘We did everything wrong’ – Did Red Bull’s strategy calls really put Verstappen into Norris’s clutches?


“It was all going so well with nine laps to go,” said Christian Horner of Max Verstappen’s Austrian Grand Prix. However, a four-second delay at the second stop, which allowed Lando Norris’s McLaren within striking range, brought it all crashing down as Verstappen and Norris clashed, paving the way for George Russell’s victory.
Given that Verstappen qualified 0.4s clear of Norris on Saturday, did Red Bull make harder work of the race than it should have done?
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