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It was a lot closer than meets the eye as everyone except Hamilton pitted to try for fastest lap. It wasn’t a great race and the RB was a few tenths slower when it mattered, but it’s a lot closer!
The Merc team was a class act today. I do wonder if Bottas will be invited to see the headmaster after not letting Lewis past as instructed though.
Bottas seems to be doing something every race that must make the Merc management team think when not if they swap him out and give Russell the drive.
Yes but they looked at the laptimes and Ham was at least 1 sec faster per lap after his stop. And remained that much faster all the way to catching him. I think I'd be a bit negative with those laptimes!!I enjoyed yesterday. My two pence is that I think team Hamilton (not just Lewis, but the crew as well) are inside Max's head. Yes, he was slower and he knew it, but a few things he said over the radio sounded defeatest to me. As for Bottas, he's a great driver, but I just don't see him as a team player; he's in it for himself and races that way, as yesterday's antics showed again.
I'm a LH fan, but I would like Max to believe a bit more, and so compete. Twisty tracks ahead, so let's see how the RB works there. Pleased to see Macca up the rankings again at last.
Agree there is something to be said for leaving things as they are mind Bottas was a bit awkward when Hamilton passed him yesterday. Big respect to Rosberg - got what he wanted and knew trying to beat Hamilton consistently would eat him up.Much as i'd like to see Russell have a go in the Merc, there's no way I'd be changing Bottas. He guarantees that Merc will win the constructor's title every year and is a very good driver in his own right, just up against someone very special. From a business case perspective, changing Bottas would be really silly indeed. You only have to look at Red Bull to see what happens when you change driver too often.
I think the way that Bottas just can't compete consistently with Hamilton shows just how good a job Nico Rosberg did to beat him and why he walked away stright after as the pressure he put himself under to compete was too much to repeat.
The Red Bull looks fast on soft tyres and average on mediums, with the Merc the other way around. Until they get a handle on that, advantage Mercedes. Red Bull may win the sprint races we have coming up though.
Don’t sound as good but bloody fast C.