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.