Driving style determines how tires grip the road

In the high stakes world of Formula 1, the difference between starting at the front of the grid or the middle often comes down to a few hundredths of a second. At the Monaco Grand Prix, veteran driver George Russell found himself nearly 0.4 seconds behind his teenage teammate, Kimi Antonelli, despite driving the exact same Mercedes car. The gap was not caused by engine power or aerodynamics, but by the invisible physics of tire management.