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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazio View Post
    Nice recovery drive by the boss!
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F1nKS View Post
    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.
    I can’t see Bottas seeing the season out in a Mercedes on current form.

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    Quote Originally Posted by truefan72 View Post
    I wonder what Bottas excuse is going ti be this race
    I don't think he has any excuse really. Hamilton was mugged by the Redbulls because Bottas was no there to interfere. Very tricky race, l thought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by truefan72 View Post
    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
    Not really, it was Russell's fault. Bottas gave him plenty of space but Russell dipped his tyres on the grass which caused him to spin into Bottas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazio View Post
    Boss messed up!
    Very rare but yep, Hamilton dropped the ball but recovered very well to 2nd. This is going to be a cracking season.
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    Quote Originally Posted by truefan72 View Post
    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 lol

    Well said. Norris is showing his star quality this season. Ricciado was comprehensively beaten by his younger team mate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Black Knight View Post
    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.
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Black Knight View Post
    I can’t see Bottas seeing the season out in a Mercedes on current form.
    Toto Woolf has a blind spot when it comes to Bottas. If he were in another team, he would have been sent packing two seasons back.
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    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.
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