McLaren boss Andrea Stella thought Lando Norris had lost his podium chance in Formula 1\u2019s Singapore Grand Prix when rival Mercedes made a late stop for mediums.
With the medium compound proving to be the optimum tyre, and bothsuddenly lapping more than one second faster than Sainz and Norris, it quickly appeared as though the German manufacturer would charge through to take a spectacular win.
"When I saw them going onto sets of brand new mediums, I thought they're going to pass us," explained Stella."We considered actually pitting, but we would be on a used soft [as Norris had no other tyres available] and we were nervous of 16-17 laps flat out on a used soft. So we decided to stay out. We would have pitted in case of a safety car, but not in case of the virtual safety car.
"It was tense, but I was not very optimistic," he explained."I was just waiting for it to happen and be ready to say: 'Don't get too disappointed.' They had double medium, it really played well into their hands with this virtual safety car, and we tried our best. But then things changed." "I think soon they lost a little bit of this momentum, and getting traction with the softer tyres," added Stella."Then the last three laps, I said: 'Maybe we can do it.'
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