Merc slow pit stop fecked that up.
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Bottas will back Max into Lewis.
Bottas on a one stop, try to hold Max up, don't think he will, but they have to try.
Maybe but its near impossible to overtake in this circuit.
The strategy now has to be Bottas one stop and not pitting until he’s slowing Max. Stop Lewis for the undercut and tell Bottas to be slow in his on lap. Would be a really short middle stint but track position is key here
Perez be like "nobody told me you can't pass on this track"
I thought the pit window for one stop was 25 laps so Bottas will be struggling. I think Max will do him pretty quickly.
He’ll fail miserably
My thinking also.
Mercedes have a new set of mediums RB don't might help Merc.
Agreed, the undercut was worth 2 seconds for Hamilton going from softs to mediums. It doesn't look insignificant.
It's all going to rely on Bottas helping Hamilton to get within DRS range and hanging on within 1 second until the second pit.
Not sure what Lewis is doing here, gap is up to 3sec now.
These narrow circuits should be banned they absolutely suck.
feck off BottasGreat stuff
Valiant defense, Bottas
I saw that but I assumed traffic. Really hard to keep up with what micro strategies are going on though.
Bottas always bottles it when there's pressure on him
God Bottas is so shit, it’s not acceptable how bad he is under pressure
Bottas will now go to the end and merc will try the same thing after Lewis’ 2nd stop
Half the race done, still 20 cars on track.
Bottas held him up a little but it wasn't going to last for long. That Red Bull is just far too quick for Merc to do anything about it.
Not even a yellow flag so far
It must be so demoralizing to be used as a sacrificial pawn over and over again like Bottas is, even if it’s in a way his own fault.
Not run wide make it easy for anyone? He ran deep in a zone he didn’t need to and was screwed for the straight. If it was a one off then fine but Bottas does this every time pressure is applied.
Pretty easy thing to do when you have no grip. He held Max up for a full lap that's the most anyone could expect.
First yellow flag
Seb with a spin, nearly took out Bottas
Bit of luck for Max there with Bottas having to slow down
If Bottas can extend to a pit ahead, I think it could be advantage Hamilton.
Lewis pits early puts on new mediums
Mercedes strategists are appalling
Max pits now for hards, but Lewis with newish mediums ,advantage Lewis ?
What else could they do?
Not put him behind a load of lapped drivers
Don’t really got what Merc were doing there, see what happens I guess.
OK true, but they have given Lewis a slim chance of winning, before he had none
That felt a couple of laps early to me. I guess they were worried Verstappen would pit anyway.
Norris and Perez the ones to watch for the last quarter of the race.
Max has got them covered, safety car would be interesting though