Fuck me. What a fucking mess. Offering second place without checking the positions. And did Horner really think he’d be given the place ahead of Hamilton? Farcical.
So Verstappen cost Hamilton the lead and he gets to start directly behind him with Hamilton losing that lead! But bizarrely, in some sort of deal or no deal situation.
Interesting race now though. Contra-strategies, high chance of a safety car. Hamilton needs to stay in touch but look after those tyres. Something he’s usually pretty good at.
Not really a satisfactory outcome that. Verstappen essentially gets away with it again. Hamilton left the door open a bit there though.
To be fair though the Stewards should have told Verstappen to give the space back straight away - Had that happened before the red flag then the grid would still have been the same.
It fixed the fact he left the track to overtake, it didn’t penalize the unsafe re-entry. Once again the only reason he didn’t cause an accident was because Hamilton took evading action.
You can be booked or sent off for intent on Football, should be that same in Formula 1.
Out at the Polar Express with the kids so following the race by text. From the outside so to speak this bears all the hallmarks of Max getting the luck and then a mix of virtual safety cars and dropping track temps allow the mediums to last.
Out at the Polar Express with the kids so following the race by text. From the outside so to speak this bears all the hallmarks of Max getting the luck and then a mix of virtual safety cars and dropping track temps allow the mediums to last.
Do they think the mediums can last till the end?
They will probably last but performance ought to drop off. The other thing that can help Red Bull is another race stop which is highly possible on this track.
Out at the Polar Express with the kids so following the race by text. From the outside so to speak this bears all the hallmarks of Max getting the luck and then a mix of virtual safety cars and dropping track temps allow the mediums to last.
Do they think the mediums can last till the end?
It’s all helping Hamilton too though - they changed to hards quite early so the VSCs etc are helping make sure he’ll make the end of the race too. Verstappen having to take a lot out of his tyres as Hamilton looks faster.
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brilliant drama but I’d rather they went wheel to wheel and we see who the beast drive
This is fun!
He just got very lucky there was a red flag
Do they think the mediums can last till the end?