Red Bull F1 boss Horner believes Mercedes's tyre strategy cost Hamilton a shot at victory in the BritishGP. 'I was actually surprised that Lewis didn't take a soft.'
"I was actually surprised that Lewis, with the amount of laps to go, and the degradation that he's shown, didn't take a soft," explained Horner.
"He went onto the hard tyre on lap 33 and I actually thought he was going to go on to the soft, because that would have made it much easier for him to make the offset in grip. It felt like they [Ferrari] have maybe been let off the hook there." Horner also says he has questions about Ferrari's own strategy calls, having not got Sainz out of the way of Leclerc early in the race, and then electing not to pit its Monegasque driver at the final safety car."I suppose that the call I understood least was not to pit both their cars, or certainly Charles, for the soft tyre [at the safety car]."stopping on the old start-finish straight.
"[Hamilton] obviously had a free stop," said Horner."And when you're the lead car, it's the hardest thing in the world to pit from the lead. "But I think even if Lewis would have stayed out, with the tyre advantage of the soft, they [Ferrari] would have repassed him."
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