Ex-Formula 1 team boss, Flavio Briatore, believes poor strategy played a role in Red Bull having to settle for second best at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen were locked in a fierce battle for the race win in the Sakhir desert and while the latter failed to make his overtake stick on Hamilton with three laps to go, an on-looking Briatore thinks Red Bull could have better optimised their race strategy. Both Hamilton and Verstappen were on a two-stop strategy, with Hamilton first coming in on lap 13 for new hard tyres while Verstappen extended his first stint by an extra four laps, fitting new medium tyres. At the second round of pit stops, Hamilton came in again...
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