| By: Charles Bradley, Global Editor in Chief
What a breathless Azerbaijan Grand Prix that was! And how cruel it was that Max Verstappen was robbed of victory by that scary tyre failure.
At least Red Bull’s pill was sweetened by Sergio Perez scoring his first F1 victory for the team – the second of his career – and Lewis Hamilton’s failure to score after his ‘magic button’ error on the restart. But what could have been a 25-point gift in Hamilton’s favour vanished in a cloud of tyre smoke.
It was a tyre issue of a very different kind which accounted for Verstappen and I trust Pirelli will get to the bottom of what caused both that failure and Lance Stroll’s earlier blowout. High-speed failures like this simply aren’t acceptable and we need to hear some answers – as Jonathan Noble explains below… |
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| Editor's Choice
When Max Verstappen's failed Formula 1 tyre arrives back at Pirelli's Milan headquarters on Monday, the company's laboratory technicians will face some urgency in finding answers about what happened in Baku. |
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