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Verstappen more than happy with P2: "I thought: are we going to be fifth or sixth?"
- Nicole Mulder
For a while it seemed that a podium was not even in the cards for Max Verstappen, but thanks to the right choices by both the driver and the team, the Dutchman still secured second place. Verstappen is therefore more than happy with the result at Silverstone.
Verstappen happy with P2
Verstappen struggled with his tyres for a long time, both in the first stint on mediums and during the second stint on intermediates. However, on a drying track and with new hards on his RB20, he still managed to make it to the podium.
"We just didn't have the pace today. I was slowly dropping back when it mattered in the beginning so it didn't look great at some point. I was thinking 'are we going to finish fifth, sixth?' But we made the right calls, going from the slicks to the inters and also from the inters back from the slicks. It was every time the right lap," Verstappen explained.
"Also in the end the call from the team to be on the hard tyre rather than the soft was definitely helping me out, that's why we also finished second today. So it could have been a lot worse," the three-time world champion added.