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Originally Posted by MKSixer
Congrats to Max and RBR. Max made a mistake at the start which was made ok by the horrible strategic decisions by Mercedes. Further, BOT did nothing to help the Mercedes cause. His defense against VER was pathetic. Had he held VER up for even one more lap, Sir Lewis would have probably won the race.
Toto Wolff and the strat team need to get thier crap together. They were out performed by Red Bull.
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At times during the race it appeared Bottas had the better pace and the dirty air behind hammy wasn’t great for his tires. Up until the last few laps, bottas was fastest in sector 1 and 2 consistently.
I agree with you that the Merc strategy team needs to step up, they underestimated Max’s outlap potential especially sector 3 where he posted fastest overall for the race.
Maybe they got greedy and targeted a 1 & 2 finish and it didn’t pan out for them without a safety car. They Merc appeared to have better grip than the Redbull for most of the race, due to the low downforce setup RBR was running.
It was wild watching Max pulling his right front wheel off the ground every lap in this turn.