that's how you overtake here, round the outside.
F1 2021 Season
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Great by Latifi.
Mazepin is a hazard out there
Is there a possibility for Lewis to puit early and catch RB out
Worst of the spoiled brats.
He'd come out before Gasly if he pitted now, so I'd expect him to box soon
Probably the only chance they've got. Go for a 2 stop and force Verstappen to follow with Bottas out there to try and hold Verstappen up.
Thinking the same.
Nothing to lose really.
It's a solid strategy, but I think any plan relying on Bottas is doomed to fail
Sergio with a good pass
International break and we get a boring race. Typical.
This is dull.
Here we go. Lewis pitting
Here we go. Lewis pitting
Lewis boxing
Predictably dull.
Bottas already said he can't do what has been asked of him, even if they do pit Lewis get Bottas in front, he eon hold off Max.
Lewis pits , definitely a 2 stop race for him, what do RB do and a messy pit
And RB pit Max, only thing they could do.
Losing 1s on Max in the box is not ideal for Lewis
Just leave Bottas out to slow him up
Merc slow pit stop fecked that up.
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