F1 2021 Season

Perez to purposely crash and force a safety car.
 
Let’s for arguments sake say RB win a review challenge of the lap 1 incident. The penalty is what, 5 seconds? Useful for Hamilton and Merc to keep that in mind …
 
Then Verstappen likely stays out. Being a VSC he would have ~10 seconds advantage to Hamilton, and another chance to tangle with Hamilton on track.

I think Hamilton has this on pace in either scenario, but we've seen time and again that the driver in 2nd has an advantage.
Mercedes has at least 0.2 secs advantage on similar tyres, they'll eat up 10 secs within 10 laps if they've the fresher tyres.
 
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I was watching that race, Mansell did well to get his car under control
 
Looking forward to seeing Hamilton spray max with champagne and max and the red bull fans congratulating Hamilton on such an amazing achievement

"That dude that won the championship got lucky."