2021 - Race 15 Russia [Sochi]

[gm99]

Bottas doing a great job of keeping Verstappen behind

[truefan72]

Terrible pitstop by rbr. There goes p3 minimum for Perez. All his hard work undone


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[gm99]

What a shame for Norris. McLaren should have overruled Norris' choice to stay out, like Mercedes did with Lewis.

Verstappen minimizes the damage by finishing second after starting dead last and is only 2 Points behind Hamilton in the championship.

[truefan72]

Well that was exciting!


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[denkimi]

Sad to see norris lose his first victory due to 4 laps of rain.

But in the end a good result for the championship, they stay very close, it remains exciting.

[Zico]

Wow... what a crazy finish. I'm gutted for Lando but great call by Merc in the end.
Thanks mostly to the rain Lewis wins and congrats to him for that.. but Max with a fresh engine and starting from the back arguably ends up achieving the better result considering where he would have finished and the points difference to Lewis that he faced before the rain started falling.

What a fascinating nail biter of a race. Great stuff.

[F1nKS]

What a fun race. From start to finish. Mercedes made the right strategy call today and it paid dividends (even saved Bottas lackluster race). Congrats to Hamilton on his 100th win. He had a great drive and took what was given and kept the pressure on and seized the final moment.

Norris was hung out to dry - literally. You have to trust the people with the data in a data-driven sport. Norris will learn to trust next time. His team also has to have confidence in their calls also. They made the mistake of giving Norris a choice.

Great results for Max. It looked like he was going to get a decent recovery drive finish, but the right strategy call made the difference.

[denkimi]

staying out could have been a very good choice for norris. anyone going off would have caused a safety car and secured his win. It just didn't work out for him.

[Tazio]

Sad to see norr'

I'm gutted for Lan'

Sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry!

[Bagwan]

Everyone hear Toto giving "encouragement" to Lewis , saying he could win ?

Was that encouragement , or was the OK to win because Max was close enough to keep that championship close enough ?

Does Lewis really need that encouragement when he'd won 99 times before ?

There's that smell again .