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18th April 2021, 14:07 #31
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Bottas v Russell
From my first view it looks like Bottas moved to the inside to cover Russelll then as russell moved to the right bottas moved to right pushing him slightly off the track. I blame bottas
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18th April 2021, 14:12 #33
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Boss messed up!
May the forza be with you
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18th April 2021, 14:12 #34
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Mercedes Chaos!!!! Exchanging of views and slaps between Mercedes drivers.
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18th April 2021, 14:19 #35
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I wonder if bottas will end the year in the mercedes.
Also suprising how slow perez is. In 10 laps he was 30 seconds down on verstappen.
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18th April 2021, 15:15 #37
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Nice recovery drive by the boss!
May the forza be with you
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18th April 2021, 15:20 #38
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Yup. A very eventful race and am pleased to see that the Mercedes (at least in Hamilton's hands) is right on par with the rbr. So they have made gains. It would have been exciting to see what would have happened if Hamilton started behind Max on the restart.
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18th April 2021, 15:27 #39
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Congrats to Max
Great recovery by Hamilton
Awesome job by Norris in p3
Stroll, Gasly, Kimi, & Ocon should all be applauded.
Perez disappointing as was Tsunoda, but they will both Bounce back.
The Ferrari’s did well. Cant ask for more than P4&5 at the moment so, good job.
Ricciardo finished a solid 6th but his pace vs Lando is concerning.
Vettel continues to be underwhelming. He is killing my FGP lolLast edited by truefan72; 18th April 2021 at 15:34.
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18th April 2021, 16:29 #40
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One of the very rare mistakes by Hamilton today but the best driver and team on the day won in the end.
When I first saw the Russell Bottas incident I was convinced it was Russells fault but after looking at it in more detail there is definitely a rightward movement from Bottas and that is what initiated the incident. I think that rightward movement caused Russell to believe if he didn’t move right an accident was imminent and he reacted with cat like reflexes to avoid Bottas but there is also a natural right line in the track there, Bottas then jinked left. Russell wasn’t to know at this time that he could have kept his line.
I have to put the blame more at Bottas door than Russell - 70/30 - ultimately it wouldn’t have occurred without that movement from Bottas and I think as a racing driver you cannot expect a driver with about 30km/h extra closing speed than you to back out. You must give room and not jink, like Norris and Hamilton today or any of the other examples we saw of overtaking at that corner throughout the race.
Mercedes should surely have to be considering if they should finish the season with Bottas- two races in and he is nowhere near Hamilton and lapped today. That’s simply not good enough. It was fine last year when they had such a huge advantage but with the field as tight as it is this year 2/3 tenths of a second is
8 grid positions. He is just not good enough.
Close season this is turning out to be, really close. Going to be tight between Max and Lewis all year.
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