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3 analyses · 2026

Charles Leclerc Won the Safety Car Lottery. It Still Wasn't Enough.

Leclerc pitted under the Lap 13 safety car, jumped four places, and lost to Russell anyway — that's the pace gap.

By Jamie Carver

Red Bull's Shanghai Sprint Was a Strategy Disaster Dressed as Bad Luck

Verstappen's medium-tyre gamble failed so spectacularly he was slower on fresh softs than Hadjar on 19-lap-old rubber.

By Nadia Ferreira

The Lap That Ended Liam Lawson's Sprint Before It Began

Russell's tyre change under safety car turned a half-second deficit into an eleven-second win. Lawson stayed out and watched the race disappear.

By Rosa Villanueva