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Red Bull’s Hannah Schmitz has offered her opinion on Ferrari’s decision-making during the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Schmitz earned the praise of her team during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, with race winner Max Verstappen praising her calmness during the post-race press conference.

Schmitz became Red Bull’s Principal Strategy Engineer midway through 2021, and her decision-making in Budapest proved instrumental in helping Verstappen take the win from 10th on the grid, thanks to an aggressive undercut pit call.

But Red Bull’s job was made considerably easier by Ferrari boxing themselves in and opting to use the Hard tyre for their final stint – a disastrous move as Charles Leclerc struggled for any sort of grip and pace, and fell prey to Verstappen in the process. Ferrari gave up on that strategy, bringing Leclerc in for Softs and dooming their title protagonist to a sixth-place finish.

With the strategic teams from Red Bull and Ferrari making headlines for completely differing reasons, Schmitz was asked for her thoughts on Ferrari’s poor decision-making in the heat of battle as she appeared on Sky F1’s Any Driven Monday.

“I guess the strategy they did is probably what we would have planned to do going into a race if we’d have been starting close to the lead, as well,” Schmitz outlined.

“But, I think the thing that really happened is, during the race, it became quite clear that the Hard tyre was not performing as expected.

“So our operations room were updating us on that information, and so we reacted to