Christian Horner has admitted that his team should have followed Mercedes example and qualified on the medium tyres. With Portimao being a new addition to the calendar even as the weekend developed there were still plenty of unknowns, a situation not helped by the fact that the Portuguese track kept throwing curve balls, witness Lewis Hamilton setting his pole-winning time on mediums. In Q2 a day earlier, while the Mercedes and Ferrari drivers opted for the mediums, Red Bull went for the softs. In the opening moments, especially as a light rain began to fall, it appeared Mercedes had made the wrong call. However as the race developed this proved not to be, and instead it was Red Bull that...
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