Jerome d’Ambrosio, who deputised for Fred Vasseur as Ferrari team principal in Austria, has explained the cause behind Lewis Hamilton’s strategy frustrations.
”In the end, you know, it’s nothing out of the norm,” he said. “What we tried to do as a team was to – Austria is very much like that – you try to do your optimal strategy.
“So, you know, you try to optimise your race time and that’s what we did with both drivers. To be honest, there was no incentive in doing anything different because [the] McLarens were clearly far ahead and George quite far behind.
“So, we were in between them with both cars and we just did a standard optimal strategy and that was the most straightforward thing to do.
“From a driver’s perspective, your question always is, ‘Is it the best? Can we do something else?’ They’re racers, they’re Formula One drivers, that’s what they should do and that’s what they do. But in the end, just show Lewis now and you look at the numbers and yeah, that’s what made sense.”
