It was a amazing run by Hamilton. He does owe Bottas a six-pack for sucking and crashing out and making it possible.
What so amazing is Bottos was sitting at 10th and could not work through the crowd, but Hamilton just made it look so easy.
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Winners
1. Verstappen - great start to take control of the race
2. Hamilton - amazing recovery drive
3. Norris
4. Ferrari
Losers
1. Bottas - looks like he is pulling a Vettel.
2. Perez - just when it looked like he was turning the corner, had a terrible finish and didn't even finish in the points. The mental and physical mistakes galore. He will now face 2 weeks of questions and excuses.
3. Former Champions
4. Russell - he had a chance to get Williams some points until him and Bottas came together.
Things that Make you go hmmm...
1. Alpha Tauri strategy call with Gasly tires to start. And they kept doubling down.
2. Yuki - what a head scratcher, was on a amazing makeup drive and then lost it.
3. Ricardo - decent finish, but is so far off Norris pace.
There was an initial rightward movement by Bottas in a half attempt to defend. But he left a car's width for Russell's Williams. Russell seemed to me to have panicked and moved too far rightwards which put his tyres on the grass. I don't think it is Bottas' fault.
The chink in Mercedes' armour is their crappy pitstops. Two in a row suggest they have the crappiest crew in the top end of the grid.