The changeable weather conditions at Sunday’s British Grand Prix provided a brilliant and exciting race for the fans, but made for a difficult and tiring afternoon for the team’s engineers and strategists, who had to somehow navigate through the weather and try to ensure their drivers were on the right tyres at the right time to maximise their result.
It was a day when making the right decision at the right time could earn a driver huge gains – or lose them if they got it wrong. Former Aston Martin strategy director Bernie Collins explains what Sunday’s race would have been like for those on the pit wall trying to make sense of it in real time, with the world watching…