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‘Cold crack' led to Albon's three-stop strategy

Alexander Albon was forced into a three-stop strategy in Austin after Pirelli discovered a 'cold crack' on his set of hard tyres and banned him from using them. Albon was the only driver inside the top ten to run a three-stop strategy at the Circuit of the Americas. However, it wasn't planned. While his rivals for the points ran one- or two-stoppers, most of them doing a stint on the hard tyres, Albon worked his way into the points on a three-stop strategy. That meant the Red Bull driver was forced to overtaking many of the others drivers two if not three times, earning him Drivers of the Day by the fans' votes. Horner explained the reasoning behind his strategy. 'Unfortunately we couldn't...
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