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.
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What do you want him to do on completely dead tyres?
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.
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.
Max has got them covered, safety car would be interesting though
I think the idea to pit early was the right one, they just did it at the wrong time. This race finishes with Lewis pitting again and Max winning by 30s now I think
Yea Max had been told to pick up the pace so Merc didn’t have the luxury to wait any longer if they wanted to undercut.
At this point Lewis should just down the engine and follow Max to the finish line, it ain't happening today.
Merc made the call, RB called thier bluff.
Max making his hards work.
Max making his hards work.
Lewis FFS just drive.
He’s not pitting again, if you think him complaining about the tyres on the radio means they will pit again think again, he’s always complaining.
Hamilton really not happy with the tyre choice and letting his team know all about that...
Sergio have a cracking race, up to 7th.
He will for fastest lap if they can get him back ahead of Bottas.
Exactly. But he will be doing that.
Is Lewis ever happy on the radio
I was thinking more that they might pit him again for fastest lap or something. He’s not getting close to the lead today unfortunately
He won't pit again, Lewis is always moaning.
His best today was always 2nd, nothing has changed.
Lewis back in full crybaby mode.
People moan about radio messages too much, you hear from Lewis because he’s at the front. Everyone moans about tyres and his strategy now looks a mess.
Everyone accepts Monaco as a boring race, I really don’t think you need two in the calendar.
What woukd you be doing?I would be exactly the same.
He thinks they called the pit too early
The thing with him is that he does talk a lot with his team. It is his way of dealing with the pressure.
Boring track, same as Catalunya
He is pitting again lads. I’m telling you
For the extra point maybe but he is catching Max, gap 1.7 nowHe is pitting again lads. I’m telling you
Merc wanted to give up, that’s ridiculous.
Ricciardo loves kicking up dirt doesnt he. Cheeky.
Have I missed something?
If I was Lewis I’d be asking F1 bosses why do you only ever play my radio. Every driver communicates with it’s engineer and we have hours of logged recordings per race from all a drivers.