Winward Team's Tyre Rule Blunder at Nurburgring

0:00On March 25, Max Verstappen and his teammates Daniel Junkadella and Jules Gunnann lost their win in the second round of the Nürburgring. Langstreck and Siri due to breaking tire rules. Their number three winward Mercedes, AMG GT, R was disqualified from the 58th A-Dag Barbarossa Prius after using too many sets during. Qualifying and the race. Earlier this week, with air temperatures at a chilly 5 degrees Celsius, the team tested Michelin's soft compound tires to see if they would work as. The track warmed up. Junkadella tried the first set and found it off, so they sang Gunnann out on a second fresh set to confirm. Verstappen then ran on his planned medium tires for the final qualifying push. Racing fans were stunned by the news, especially since Verstappen is a four-time Formula 1 world champion. The mistake turned heads that might have ignored it for a lesser known team. They cost them a strong victory, but every pro team in their class typically uses four sets for a four-hour race anyway.

1:01Details now show they used three sets in qualifying, two softs and one medium, then four new mediums in the race exceeding the six-set limit. They could have reused Verstappen's qualifying mediums to stay legal, but stuck to the original plan. No real speed edge came from it. Just data-proving softs fail once the sun rises. In the end, it's a pricey lesson on tire choices for winward, one that sharpens their strategy moving forward in the series. From your team, powered by AI, this is F1 News Today. I'm Corey with The Story.