GPI 2016 Grand Prix of Europe Edition | Page 99

2016 GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE EDITION then it definitely makes you more alert…” Vettel said he did not think anyone was taking it easy, but neither were they about to take “any stupid approaches to risk”. Track designer Hermann Tilke saw strategy at play, with some drivers expecting a high rate of attrition and believing they could score points just by being there at the finish, “They did a very conservative strategy, all the drivers. And of course the drivers, and team managers maybe, saw the GP2 race and said: If you finish maybe you are in the points’. But this was not the case.” GPI