Max Verstappen emerged victorious in an action-packed Sprint race at the Austrian Grand Prix, surviving some drama during the early stages of a wet-to-dry outing to claim an ultimately dominant victory on Red Bull’s home soil.
“The start was not ideal, a bit of wheelspin, but after that, after Lap 1, once we got back in the lead, it was good,” said Verstappen. “We were just managing the tires, knowing that if it wasn’t going to rain anymore, then you know 24 laps on an intermediate is quite a lot, but they were hanging in there.
“I think of course the last five laps the slicks were quite a bit faster, but I think for us, so far in the lead, it didn’t make sense to pit. We just hung in there with the inters which worked well.”
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