Windsor saw something remarkable: 'I never realised that with Verstappen'
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Formula 1 analyst Peter Windsor has reviewed the images from the Spanish Grand Prix and has made an interesting discovery: Lewis Hamilton seems to take corners much tighter than Max Verstappen. Apparently he used less energy from his tyres.
Verstappen and Hamilton finally have a good comparison
According to Windsor, Hamilton kept his car a lot more stable during the race than Verstappen did. He used a lot less of the road, the analyst explained. "Verstappen let the corners go on longer. I never realised that with Max. I've never been able to see him compared to Lewis Hamilton with the same Pirelli's at the same stage of the race," Windsor said in his latest YouTube video.
"It was great how Lewis' very short corners and his early steering helped him against Max. You could see that for the same lap time, Max had to use a lot more energy from his Pirelli medium tyres," says Windsor. Verstappen seemed to use a lot more of his tyres compared to his rival.
Where Hamilton got the win
"You could see that Lewis was just steering in a metre earlier. That's where Lewis Hamilton earned the win at the Spanish Grand Prix," said Windsor. It was not an easy win, because being so far behind Verstappen, Hamilton had to demand more from his tyres and the temperature of the brakes, for example, went up considerably.