Adam-Utd
Part of first caf team to complete Destiny raid
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so if lewis covered the corner that max overtook on (pulled to the left to stop him diving inside) he’d get a much worse entrance to the straight and lose acceleration.Just talking about racing for a minute (god forbid), is there a way that Lewis could have defended that corner? Max's only passing strategy on that track seems to be diving down the inside on those tight corners, could Lewis have done better to defend on 'the lap'?
he could have tried that and hoped that his top speed would have been enough, but with max on brand new tyres the chances of that happening were extremely slim.
I think Lewis should have covered it a little better to force it into a pure drag race. I don’t think he expected the move that early and probably expected max to try and get it done on the straight.
In his situation though you just cannot make up for the tyre differential.
Max would have taken a much wider entrance, cut back at a tighter angle then used his superior traction to power passed. Hamilton’s only hope was to get a bit dirty and try to force him off.