TEAM TACTICS
When the tyre blankets came off on the grid in Spain, almost the whole field had opted for the red-striped C3 soft as their starting tyre. But both Red Bulls – Max Verstappen on pole and Sergio Pérez in the 11th place slot – were on the C2 mediums. There were several unknown variables feeding into everyone’s choices. The layout of this track has always imposed heavy tyre degradation (particularly of the left-front) but that has been made more severe through
