F1 2021 Season

From one feck up to another. Red Bull lucky.
 
Mazepin cost Hamilton the overtake there so going longer makes sense, he was about to get Max at the end of that stint.
 
After Mazepin held Hamilton up, I think it's the right choice to go longer as he would have been behind Verstappen. The alternative was to still come out behind but with no tyre advantage.
 
Leg-End said:
Mazepin cost Hamilton the overtake there so going longer makes sense, he was about to get Max at the end of that stint.
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If he'd pitted 1 lap after Verstappen's stop I'm pretty certain he'd have had enough to get ahead, was only on the next lap that Mazepin seemed to really cost him.
 
Hephaestus said:
If he'd pitted 1 lap after Verstappen's stop I'm pretty certain he'd have had enough to get ahead, was only on the next lap that Mazepin seemed to really cost him.
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Would have been tight for sure.

What being ignored is when Max pitted Hamilton was basically 0.5 heading onto the pit straight with DRS, he has the tyre life and Max didn’t.
 
It does appear Mercedes have better pace and better degradation. This pace and when Max pitted with Hamilton about to overtake is clear.
 
Leg-End said:
Would have been tight for sure.

What being ignored is when Max pitted Hamilton was basically 0.5 heading onto the pit straight with DRS, he has the tyre life and Max didn’t.
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Yeah, I can understand that. But it's so hard to overtake here that even with all of that, surely you've got to go for track position rather than gamble on tyre degradation at the end. I mean, even with the small gap and DRS and Max's tyre dying, I wasn't expecting Hamilton to get past when Max pitted.
 
Why do we still ''race'' here.. Spain must have better circuits.
 
That's potentially genius. It hadn't even crossed my mind to pit Hamilton.
 
Leg-End said:
Asking a lot for Hamilton to bridge this gap.
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They're probably banking on Verstappen's tyres losing him way over 1 second a lap towards the end. He's going to be running them longer than the suggested lifespan for mediums as it is.
 
From the pace Hamilton had this should be easy IMO and Max couldn't stop in case of Bottas being in the way helping Hamilton, they really need Perez up there.
 
Bottas mate..... You don't fight when we want you to but when there's no point in doing so...
 
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