Why did Ferrari put leclerc on softs?
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Why did Ferrari put leclerc on softs?
Give the mercedes their trophy's already. They are more than a second faster than their closest rivals.
Also what stupidity did the RBR guys do prior to the start of the race by drying the track in front of Albon? Smh
Verstapenn is the man of the race for me. What a recovery from a crash getting on the grid. Hamilton did a demonstration of how to win a race with absolute domination. I don't understand the stop for Bottas as he was so close to catching and overtaking Verstapenn. They stopped Bottas in anticipation that Verstapenn would stop, which turned out not to be the case. Which essentially cost Bottas 2nd place, l think.
Albon had a great recovery to 5th to show what a great driver he is. Both Ferrari's lapped by the Mercedes cars, goes to show what a loss of pace the change to the engine has resulted. Great showing by Stroll, he might be from money, but he genuinely has talent.
I agree, very weird. But l think they were reluctant to mess with the title fight between Hamiton and Bottas. I wonder if they would do the same thing if it was reverse?
To be fair, Bottas was punished enough by the consequential loss of places due to the false start.
The stewards have yet to make a decision on that one as well. It could be quite costly to Albon personally that hios teams had broken the rules. Martin Brundle thought a kinder pun ishment was a 10 second pernalty. Now race is over, the only available punishment is that they may be disqualified from the race. We watch this one with interest.
And both Haas cars got a 10-second penalty for driver aids - the reason being that they were told to pit for slicks before the start of the race, which apparently constitutes a driving aid.
What a ridiculous ruling. I hope they change the rules to allow this in the future.
Even if you're inherently quicker than Hamilton. You pretty much hand the race to Hamilton when you flop the start. It those mistakes more costly than being outqualified by Hamilton all the time.