“It was the optimum time to stop from a performance point of view,” Horner told Sky Sports F1. “De Vries hasn’t hit the wall, the engine was still running, and to us, it looked like he was going to reverse out and go from there.”
Horner added that while it was possible to say in retrospect that things could have been done differently, sometimes circumstances do not go one’s way. He concluded that “his misfortune was Checo’s good fortune.”
