DRIVERS
1 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing)
2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes)
3 – Valtteri BOTTAS (Mercedes)
TRACK INTERVIEWS
(Done by Martin Brundle)
Q: Max Verstappen, wide victory, your ninth in Components 1. Or no longer it’s a must to bag enjoyed that so worthy?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I mean, I didn’t behold it coming but after the indispensable stint it seemed be pleased we were in actual fact brilliant on tyres. With out a doubt then there changed into a seek data from trace over how Mercedes were going to head on the hard tyre. But we had a bunch of tempo in the auto. I didn’t in actual fact bag a bunch of tyre issues the least bit. Yeah, we correct saved pushing. An righteous outcome pointless to tell to lift here and yeah we correct had a particular day. All the pieces labored out successfully: we had the accurate approach, all the pieces changed into working tender. So yeah, pointless to tell extremely ecstatic to lift.
Q: Red Bull support in replace. There changed into a pivotal point in the bustle the put you were requested to search out out about after the tyres fairly early on and you stated: “no, no, no, I’m no longer going to force be pleased grandma.” No disrespect to grandmas, they is also fairly rapid, but “I’m going after these guys to position stress on them”. That for me changed into a key 2d.
MV: Yeah, we to this point didn’t bag the opportunity in the final races to push them, and I might perhaps perhaps perhaps behold we were pushing them. I tried to position the stress on, they’d to pit and from there onwards I might perhaps perhaps perhaps manufacture my tempo and in most cases originate that advantage to the live.
Q: We’re off to Barcelona subsequent week. Have you trust you bag a Mercedes-beater beneath you now?
MV: I don’t know. I mediate we manufacture must make utilize of tender tyres, that looks to swimsuit our automobile, but we’ll behold again in Barcelona. For the 2d we are correct very ecstatic that we correct won.
Q: 2d placed man Lewis Hamilton. Successfully, that changed into a piece of a annoying bustle with the tyres but you purchased here through in the live to P2.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, a wide venture. At the birth, congratulations to the Red Bull crew and to Max. You win out about at their tyres they don’t bag the issues that clearly we had nowadays. Positively surprising to bag the blistering as hard core as we skilled it, but I’m in actual fact grateful to bag stepped forward and managed to correct gain my approach during the bustle. I mediate I had blistering accurate on the live again, but I had been pushing fairly heavily to lift the fellows in the lead.
Q: Is there something in explicit as to why the Mercedes changed into blistering more than the Red Bull manufacture you trust?
LH: No longer that I do know of on the 2d, but I’m certain the crew will be working as hard as they might be able to because we’ve no longer had that sooner than. I would trust, it’s in all likelihood… Obviously, Pirellis were battling tyres failures final week so then weekend on, weekend on, they correct assign the pressures up and up. They’re balloons now. They’re they most sensible pressures we’ve ever had at a note be pleased this. I wouldn’t be stunned it changed into an bag an affect on for us but I don’t know if anybody else struggled with blistering we had. But it indubitably’s something we’ll win out about into.
Q: The important thing for you changed into that you had to raise a pickle of tyres that seemed gruesome. You were clearly petrified about them. And then you positively attacked the pit lane shuffle limit line as successfully, completely accurate on the threshold. There changed into a section there the put it changed into getting somewhat hard for you.
LH: That center stint changed into… even the indispensable one in actual fact, the indispensable stint changed into in actual fact hard I started to tumble support to Max… And then that 2d stint I changed into managing be pleased you couldn’t trust. I changed into managing to the ultimate of my potential but it indubitably didn’t manufacture a single distinction to that blistering. At the live I changed into correct utilizing with half of a tyre in most cases. Whereas you seemed in the mirrors, one half of is bald and the totally different aspect is OK. It held together but I changed into apprehensive it changed into going to explode.
Q: Onwards and upwards. Valtteri, third position, every other podium, but doubtlessly a bustle that might perhaps perhaps perhaps were; a piece traumatic for you?
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, very traumatic, starting from pole and finishing third is no longer perfect. I mediate as a crew we were sleeping sooner or later, when Max managed to gain sooner than us, and my approach changed into a ways, a ways from perfect, so heaps to learn from nowadays I mediate.
Q: That changed into basically the most indispensable point I mediate. You pitted 10 laps sooner than Lewis for the pickle of hard tyres and then you positively were nursing some very hard tyres on the live of the wide prix.
VB: Yeah, pointless to tell, I changed into attempting, if there changed into a likelihood to protect with Max. But as rapidly as I started to push against the live the tyres correct fell apart. So a lot of blistering in the tyres nowadays for us and it looks be pleased Red Bull had none so they clearly had an edge over there.
Q: Point to to us what it feels be pleased with those blisters?
VB: The tyre correct overheats. It’s in most cases boiling. You gain holes in the tyres and then you positively correct lose grip. Whereas you originate to bag those blisters in that explicit tyre you correct lose cornering griup and you slump slower and slower.
Q: Onto Barcelona and better luck subsequent weekend.
VB: We’ll slump on. Disappointing day but we’ll slump on.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Q: Max, what a bustle – sensational. You had no tyre issues, but were you stunned at correct how easy your automobile changed into on its tyres nowadays?
MV: Successfully, yeah, I didn’t query that. I had a brilliant open initially, so I changed into right away into P3, and that helps. Then I knew that the indispensable few laps perhaps it would be a piece more hard to prepare, but then I might perhaps perhaps perhaps behold each autos in front of me were each having bother with their tyres, which pointless to tell is rather regular when the tyres are so tender. I closed the gap and then when they pitted I might perhaps perhaps perhaps take up my tempo and manufacture my maintain laps, and in most cases until I pitted it correct felt in actual fact brilliant. I never in actual fact had any struggles and I might perhaps perhaps perhaps lengthen that first stint, which I mediate changed into key. My cease changed into no longer wide, one wheel changed into a piece unhurried, so I came out on the support of Valtteri but then I had the softer compound, so I had worthy more grip, so I purchased previous Valtteri. Then the gap stayed at be pleased 2.5 to just a few seconds after that and then pointless to tell we pitted together. Then pointless to tell there’s a seek data from trace of who’s going to the quickest to the line. But I mediate straightaway the auto felt brilliant on those tyres again and I never in actual fact had any bother with the tyre nowadays and I mediate that changed into basically the most indispensable nowadays.
Q: Is this the indispensable time this year that we’ve viewed what you and the auto are agreeable of?
MV: I philosophize so if you lift the bustle.
Q: Lewis, there changed into some hypothesis in the center of the bustle that which that you can perhaps perhaps strive a one-stopper. Modified into that ever on the playing cards?
LH: I changed into attempting to head for a one-cease on the live but there changed into a bunch of vibration with the tyres that we had and I didn’t know if the tyre changed into going to final if I’m being correct. No longer correct with the rubber but I correct a rear tyre blow-out through a corner changed into too wide a likelihood to take care of shut; that might perhaps perhaps perhaps were live of bustle, so I mediate it changed into a brilliant resolution by the crew. I changed into attempting to take care of shut care of going but there were a bunch of laps to head and Max, I mediate on the live, changed into doing 28s, 29s and I couldn’t manufacture that on the tyre feeble tyres, so congratulations to him, he did an interesting job. And it changed into an thrilling bustle for me with the battle we had, retaining the auto heading in the right course and no longer shedding my chilly and bringing it dwelling and getting the aspects, so in actual fact ecstatic with it.
Q: Had you purchased through Q2 on the Laborious tyre the day gone by, manufacture you trust the hard tyre can were totally different nowadays?
LH: It’s all hearsay. Hindsight’s always a brilliant thing but I surely don’t know. Most certainly we wouldn’t bag fallen support against Max but even on the Laborious tyre we had blistering. So a lot of blistering. So even with a bunch of administration. His tyre didn’t win out about be pleased it had something on it so there’s something somewhat unfriendly, clearly, with something that we’ve finished and we’ll analyse it and take care of shut a encounter at to repair it for subsequent time.
Q: “Analyse it, strive to repair it for subsequent time.” But Valtteri, what does the crew must manufacture to toughen its efficiency on the softer tyre at these excessive tyre pressures?
VB: I don’t know. There’s clearly something that we now must toughen when in contrast to Red Bull. I noticed Max’s tyres on the live of the bustle and they seemed perfect and mine and Lewis’ were fairly badly blistered, so there’s a distinction there that, no longer decrease than, I don’t know yet what it’s miles. And moreover we in actual fact had to protect watch over in the excessive-shuffle corners. We required rather a bunch of administration and it seemed Max changed into fairly satisfied in the excessive shuffle corners. So, unknown explanation for now.
Q: At what point in the bustle the put you thinking: ‘here is going to lunge away from us.’
VB: I mediate when I lost the note space to Max. I changed into asking if I might perhaps perhaps perhaps slump sooner, because I changed into managing the tyres around that time. But then I correct purchased a message that the priority is to take care of shut care of the tyres in brilliant condition, and then clearly he came out from the pits fairly worthy aspect-by-aspect and bought me into Turn Six-Seven. So then I knew, OK, will be hard, but I changed into hopeful there would be alternatives. But then the center stint changed into somewhat short. We boxed and I might perhaps perhaps perhaps behold Max stopping on the same time, so then, I knew yeah, it’s going to be hard. And against the live, the mid-to-live of the final stint, I tried to push flat-out to maintain alternatives. I changed into perhaps catching a piece but then the tyres gave up entirely. So yeah, for me, positively I bag to bag long previous lengthy in the 2d stint. The final stint changed into diagram to lengthy and that’s when I lost the distance to Lewis.
VIDEO CONFERENCE
Q: (Christian Menath – motorsport-magazin.com) Inquire of for you Max. Have you trust nowadays’s victory changed into more up to your energy that you catched up to Mercedes or more to Mercedes weak point nowadays?
MV: I mean it’s hard. I mean to keep in touch for others. From our aspect, all the pieces changed into working successfully with the tyres. I had a brilliant balance in the auto, we did now not bag any troubles with the tyres. With such tender compounds on this note, with excessive energies, that can manufacture a wide distinction – because for americans that win out about support finally week, for americans that are a piece more… utilizing with tyres that we now bag in most cases the final year all over the put the position the put you solely manufacture a one cease, and then pointless to tell we’re aloof lacking tempo. With out a doubt I might perhaps perhaps perhaps behold the Mercedes autos having a bunch of blistering issues. So then you positively realize they’re battling the tyres. So I mediate we had a in actual fact brilliant day with the tyres and the tempo of the auto and balance of the auto and perhaps they correct battle on the tyres and then, pointless to tell, which that you can perhaps perhaps’t push.
Q: (Alex Kalinauckas – Autosport) Inquire of to each Mercedes drivers please. At the birth of the bustle and into the indispensable stint, how hard were you guys pushing and were you right away going slower than you were looking forward to – or changed into it correct going to draw at that point when Max came up on the support of you on the Hards.
VB: I mediate we were each managing rather plenty in basically the most ambiance friendly areas that we mediate. So, yeah, from the very starting we were managing because we knew that, for us, starting with the Medium tyre, the ultimate thing is to head fairly lengthy and no longer to leave a wide distinction to Max in phrases of stopping laps. So, yeah, even supposing we started to bag some blistered fairly early on, lets aloof protect on with half of-first price tempo. So yes, we were managing, to be correct, the final bustle. At the live with the Laborious tyre I changed into pushing a piece and then you positively noticed what happens.
Lewis, that first stint, how hard were you pushing?
LH: Adore Valtteri stated, I changed into attempting to protect watch over but I changed into attempting to protect with Valtteri, to be correct, and I changed into struggling, be pleased, within three laps with the rears, and so yes, managing moreover but it indubitably wasn’t doing something to abet the scenario. So then I started to lose floor to Valtteri and yeah, I’ve purchased to search out out about into that because it’s uncommon moreover for me to bag as harmful as I’d had. Steadily I’m on the marginally better live of harmful day but nowadays changed into worse.
Q: Modified into the deg nowadays worse than in your lengthy runs for the duration of Friday note, to illustrate?
LH: Yep, we haven’t had deg be pleased this sooner than. So, it’s wide. I don’t know what came about nowadays. We’ve approach here with the softer tyres which, I mediate, has made the bustle worthy more thrilling as we pickle about a two cease. Fragment of me doesn’t desire to indicate that we slump with softer tyres engaging forwards because perhaps we’ll be on this space again, but finally, one-cease sucks. We’re going to bag to never be doing one-stops, I mediate on this sport. It’s never been brilliant watching as a fan. It makes it more thrilling when there’s more.
Q: (Scott Mitchell – The Inch) Inquire of for Max. Max, we’ve heard you on the radio in the indispensable stint, responding to GPs message to build your tyres and you didn’t desire to correct sit there be pleased a grandma. At that point, being so shut to the Mercedes, changed into that correct about having a likelihood to flee shut to them and behold the put it goes – or at that point did you trust you were in competitors to lift the bustle?
MV: No, I changed into already managing but, you realize, pointless to tell their tyres were be pleased, entirely long previous. I might perhaps perhaps perhaps behold the tyres opening up. It changed into moreover very anticipated with these tyres, especially on excessive gasoline, when the auto is amazingly heavy. But I didn’t correct desire to sit down on the support of, be pleased I’ve been doing on the old races continuously, so after I had the opportunity to position a piece of stress on, I desire to manufacture that. So, I tried. I had a wide 2d as soon as, when I changed into shut to Lewis in Turn 13, because it’s in actual fact hard to prepare, even when I even bag the grip advantage with these autos – but pointless to tell then it changed into correct most no longer going for them to continue, so they boxed. And that’s the put my bustle started. But I abominate sitting support, especially for americans that behold that the auto is mainly fairly first price. Customarily it’s miles generally a piece of suicide, killing your tyres, attempting to hang on desperately but I don’t mediate that changed into the case nowadays.
Q: (Christian Menath – motorsport-magazin.com) Inquire of for every Mercedes drivers. Lewis, as you bag mentioned, the issues nowadays with the blistering came in the present day. Did you commerce something dramatically from Friday on the auto?
LH: Nope, the auto’s fairly worthy the same. Effective worthy as final week. We made some tiny enhancements to the balance but in most cases the same.
Any adjustments in your automobile Valtteri?
VB: From final weekend yes, but since Friday nothing – and Friday changed into in actual fact feeling OK, so I mediate correct the note temp nowadays changed into basically the most indispensable distinction.
Q: (Alex Kalinauckas – Autosport) To the Mercedes drivers: you’ve historically long previous totally at Spain which is subsequent week but is going to be in August this time, no longer might perhaps perhaps perhaps honest so doubtlessly worthy hotter temperatures. Given what’s came about nowadays, are you fearful of the heat and to Max, will you be pushing F1 and Pirelli to articulate softer tyres at each available opportunity now?
LH: I query that note, we can doubtlessly bag an identical issues to what we had here, perhaps final week, perhaps, especially if it’s hot instances, doubtlessly… perhaps won’t be as harmful as nowadays but aloof going to be a venture. It’s (the tyre likelihood) going to be the same as final week? So aloof going to be a excessive venture for us.
VB: I agree, so I mediate it’s going to be a venture. I haven’t viewed the forecast but I philosophize it’s going to be warm. As least nowadays, it looks be pleased Red Bull, they’re fairly stable when it’s hot.
MV: Successfully, I don’t mediate it’s up to me to push that. I don’t mediate I will manufacture that. Recently we had a brilliant bustle. Who knows, perhaps it’s the tyres? We had a brilliant day so we correct will bag to be ecstatic about nowadays but we can moreover be sensible; we are aloof lacking tempo in qualifying, rather plenty, so we now must resolve that first as successfully and naturally we return to tougher tyres in Barcelona. With out a doubt we noticed final week that on those tougher tyres we are aloof rather plenty off so I don’t query any miracles there. I trace it’s a hard note on tyres but with these hard tyres which that you can perhaps perhaps push rather plenty, tougher than what we’ve finished nowadays. But yeah, I mediate in licensed, it’s more about doing a one cease is no longer very thrilling so if you glance a approach of doing two stops which pointless to tell, optimistic tyres as successfully. I mean, I abominate… I mediate in licensed nobody likes managing tyres for the duration of the bustle. We desire to push, that might perhaps perhaps perhaps be brilliant.
Q: (Phil Duncan – PA) Lewis, you stated you hoped Red Bull would elevate their game so they would perhaps articulate the temperature venture to you. Obviously you don’t desire to lose but manufacture you trust it’s brilliant that Max has won nowadays breathes original lifestyles into the sport and manufacture you behold him as a challenger this season?
LH: I mediate it’s wide for… as I stated sooner than, I desire to bag races the put they’re annoying be pleased nowadays so I’m infected to encounter this bustle. Obviously the Red Bull looks to be somewhat shut in bustle instances to us and clearly nowadays is stronger so it reveals they don’t bag as harmful a bundle as perhaps americans had stated in the previous but I mediate it’s brilliant. That is also engaging to search out out about the progression during the relaxation of the year and I positively is no longer going to fail to see them. I mediate we’ve purchased to take care of shut care of a shut behold on them and protect working to push forwards because I don’t mediate it’s going to be easy by any approach. But I don’t mediate my crew has that mentality anyway so we correct protect our heads down. I changed into hopeful nowadays that perhaps we can bag that – wishful thinking, but hoping to bag some invent of bustle against the live, but perhaps sooner or later we can gain to bag some, a piece more.
Q: (Edd Straw – The Inch) Max, you mentioned that clearly strive to be sensible and that there’s aloof efficiency to be stumbled on. That you might perhaps perhaps bag a inexpensive opinion of the put the crew has an understanding of the auto and what’s growing in phrases of upgrades. Have you trust it’s sensible to query, in the time you’ve purchased available this season – clearly just a few more months of racing – that it’s miles possible for you to to bag a automobile that week in, week out can manufacture this invent of thing, or manufacture you trust it’s going to be counting on a piece odd instances be pleased nowadays in recount to gain wins?
MV: I mediate that to utterly shut that gap will be very hard. I mediate nowadays we were correct very brilliant on tyres and then pointless to tell which that you can perhaps perhaps push plenty tougher on them, especially when we return to conservative tyres all over the put the position – because in most cases most of the tracks we slump to we are correct doing a one cease – yeah, I mediate this might perhaps occasionally be a piece tougher for us because then nobody in actual fact has blistering that excessive, and you don’t must protect watch over as worthy as we did nowadays. We are able to behold. Adore I’ve stated sooner than, let’s correct revel in nowadays and then we’ll behold again in Barcelona the put we are.
Q: (Ben Hunt – The Sun) Two questions: to Lewis, for the duration of the bustle you mentioned Max’s tyres pressures, that perhaps they weren’t accurate. Have you aloof protect that opinion or manufacture you trust that they were able to address it better? 2d seek data from to all three in terms of travelling to Spain for the next bustle; UK authorities advice is clearly against going to Spain due to the the corona virus; what invent of measures manufacture you bag in position; will you be staying in motorhomes on the note, correct taking a encounter after yourselves and guaranteeing that you don’t tumble harmful in the same approach that Sergio Perez is?
LH: So the indispensable seek data from… when we slump out and we open the bustle we now bag minimal pressures and then for the duration of the bustle they expand. With more laps, they slump on a steep upward push and I take that we correct went on a worthy steeper upward push and expand in pressures than… In licensed, to search out out about after your tyres, you have to protect the temperatures down and hence the pressures, in recount that wasn’t in actual fact my opinion processes when I changed into on the market. They wants in recount to take care of shut care of their pressures decrease than ours and that’s why ours were blistering and that changed into correct a opinion that I had. I wasn’t asserting that they’ve totally different settings to us, because all of us bag the same minimum but when which that you can perhaps perhaps protect your pressures decrease then you positively might perhaps perhaps perhaps slump additional and manufacture the tyres final longer, so I mediate that that’s doubtlessly – I’ll win out later but I’m certain that’s section of the scenario that we had doubtlessly.
I don’t in actual fact know a bunch of what’s happening there (in Spain) but I live on the note always, so nothing adjustments for me. I live in my bubble, I’m solely around a couple of oldsters and so I will gain to the airport and then slump straight to my motorhome and live on the note for the three/four days. Same as I even bag finished this weekend.
MV: Yeah, I correct protect doing what I even were doing. You minimise contact, you live in your bubble. I don’t query any bother. It’s no longer solely in Barcelona or in Spain there is corona, you realize, so that you correct must watch out.
VB: Yeah, same as regular bustle weekend so land in Spain, slump on to the motorhome, to the note. I will solely be with the americans which might perhaps perhaps perhaps very successfully be incorporated in the bubble, that’s it. Then after the bustle weekend leave with the same americans to the next position. That’s it, so wants to be capable.
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