Lambiase much to be heard in Verstappen's ear: 'A constant discussion!'
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- Sandy van Wijngaarden
Perhaps the most important part during the British Grand Prix was strategy. After the race, Max Verstappen explained how he and his team came to the decisions that were made. This caused some discussion with his race engineer.
The weather at Silverstone was changeable. It rained occasionally and then the track quickly dried up again. This prompted discussions with Gianpiero Lambiase, Verstappen's race engineer. "It's a constant discussion that I have with GP with the radar," the Dutchman told us.
Constant discussions between Verstappen and Lambiase
Eventually, Verstappen also took matters into his own hands. "He tells me the information he has as well as he can, and then as a driver of course at one point, if you don't feel like you know you can continue on a slick, or you think now it's time to go to the inter, you have to shout over the radio that you're coming in, so that's what we did."
"And then it's the same from inter to slick," the three-time world champion continued. "Of course, the team can sometimes help you a little bit more with that if someone is on a slick already. But at the end of the day, the sun was coming out, the track was still drying up quite quickly from the last few days even, and took a bit of risk, not being 100% sure this is the right lap, but we went for it and it was the right lap at the end of the day."