“We attacked Charles in the first stint and we didn’t get past, and in doing so, we damaged the tyres quite a lot and then we weren’t able to keep up with them anymore. Charles was able to build a big gap.
“Then we had a good pit stop. The pit stop itself was good. We were quick through the pit lane. Lando [Norris] did a wonderful job for Oscar, helping out with Checo [Sergio Perez], and suddenly we were back on the gearbox of Leclerc.
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“I wanted to remind [Oscar] what happened in the first stint, because it’s still a lot of laps at that point, not an easy one-stop here by any means. So I sort of said, you know, remember in the first stint, we damaged the tyres a lot, attacking. And this time let’s be tactical.
“He knows me well enough also to know that that’s the scientist in me saying that, but the racer in me is saying ‘go and get him!’. And the racer in Oscar, fortunately, went and got him.
“We saw that the Ferrari and the Red Bull couldn’t get past Oscar, and I’m not sure that those fortunes would have been reversed if the cars had been in a different order.”
