{We are just losing time the longer we are on these tires,} Max complained on the radio as the gap between him and Fatih had already extended to fifteen seconds by lap 27.
All the simulations they had run a week before were done under the consideration of everyone in the top ten running on soft tires for the first half of the race, but Fatih's situation had thrown that out of the window for Verstappen, who had failed to move to P1 at the race start.
{We still don't have an opening to exit in clean air at the moment,} GP answered him, as that was the only thing he could tell him at the moment since everything else was out of their control.
{Call me in as soon as the window opens. I don't want to be on these tires any longer,} he said before he returned to focusing on his driving.
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{This pace is good. Safety car window is open,} James said, updating Fatih on the level of the gap he had opened.
