It can always rain at Zandvoort. Wrong tyre in the rain, 23 seconds a lap; wrong tyre in the dry, about 6; a Safety Car discounts a stop by 7. The maths never says wait.

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The easiest way to win at Spielberg? Start on pole, have a car that doesn't break, build an undercut buffer, then copy the tyre of whoever stops behind you. This briefing is for every other car. 🇦🇹 Because here's the truth about the Red Bull Ring: no one is unbeatable. Not even Mercedes. You beat the quickest car by making it choose. No breathing room, constant pressure, until it has to decide which threat to cover and under pressure, it can pick wrong. Ferrari did exactly that two weeks ago in Barcelona: forced Mercedes to choose McLaren or Ferrari, and they covered the wrong one. The levers, on a 53-degree day: 
🌡️ Read the green. Lap times still improving means fuel is beating deg 0.035 a lap against the 0.05 crossover. The lap the green stops, the second stop is coming.
🚩 Blue flags. Every time a midfield car gets lapped, moving aside costs it about 1.2s and it happens again and again. Back there, the flags run your race, not your strategist.
🚨 The Safety Car. 13 in the last 15 races here. Save a fresh tyre and you jump the lot old rubber loses 0.8s on the first lap of the restart. Verstappen starts P5 with a fresh medium nobody around him kept. Not the fastest car. Doesn't have to be. The quickest car doesn't always win at Spielberg. The best-run one does. Haven’t joined the Race Strategy Society yet? 🔔If you want the Full Video Subscribe for F1 strategy deep-dives: youtube.com/@TheRaceStrategy… 📨 Get the full technical briefings direct to your inbox: mailchi.mp/kentixen/the-race…