Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
The rumour is he was short fueled to give him the speed to mess with Hamilton when the situation presented itself. He probably did not have enough fuel to get to the end of the race.
I find that hard to believe just looking at the laptimes. At lap 12, when verstappen went for his first pitstop, perez was already 4 seconds down. Almost 9 to hamilton.

That doesn't look like a lighter car to me.