Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
But did Bottas deserve to claim back the podium position after drifting back by eight seconds and falling to just over a second ahead of a rampant Verstapenn. I think Hamilton had earned the position, there was no real benefit to swop. It was risky as well but fortunately, Verstapenn did not expect that a swop was still going to happen, he would have made Hamilton pay dearly for it.
You have no idea why Bottas was slow at that point .
But , you do know that both finished ahead of Max , and thus gained Mercedes the maximum in points for the race .

You also have to examine , had they not swapped back the positions , the strain on the relationship between the two drivers , and especially between Bottas and his team would have been tremendous , and they dealt with lots of agro between drivers when Nico was on board .
Perhaps they learned a lesson .

It seems that they are telling the drivers that they work for a team , and that that is the first priority .
The deal between the drivers was upheld , and that is worth more than the points they could lose with warring drivers , as recent history tells them .