Quote Originally Posted by denkimi View Post
What competitive situation?
Have you seen them race each other at some point this season?

Without problems they just use their standard scenario. Push a few laps till the lead is big enough. Then slow both cars down till slightly above the speed of the 3th in the race, and maintain that speed untill the end.
If a safety car happens, just repeat till the gap is once more 10+ seconds.
They can both go a lot faster if needed, but they don't seem to use that speed to race each other. That can only mean they have orders not to.

But:
We know that Bottas does not race hamilton, but i'm not sure whether hamilton will not race bottas if needed.
I think Bottas was pushing Hamilton hard at this race which resulted in the drop of the tyre life that resulted in the puncture. They were racing each other allright.