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Bottas ending his career by outqualifying Perez in the worst car
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A reminder these guys never took each other out when fighting for wins and championships . The Golden Era
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Sky needs to hire proper analysts
🎙️| “Are Charles and Carlos equal in races?”. Damon Hill: “It seems like Charles has a lot of bad luck during the races. But maybe that’s because Carlos manages these things better. Carlos is a thinking driver.”. Naomi Schiff “I think yes.”.
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As an LH fan I’ve seen it for a while, but the fact even Max is calling Russell two-faced and shady is shocking. The guy is undeniably quick, but this on top of that ridiculous post-race quote about the “Boy from Williams” tells you everything you need to know about the current.
Max in the press conference about George Russell: "I've been to the stewards many times. I've never seen a driver try so hard to screw another driver.". [@JoostNederpelt]
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Maybe this sounds crazy, but if Mercedes are in desperate need of a second driver for the short term why not bring this man back for a year or two whilst they prepare Antonelli for F1?. Consistently running high up in that Sauber shows he’s still very quick, the team already.
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Points since Ferrari’s Monza upgrades:. 1) Leclerc - 99.2) Norris - 90 .3) Piastri - 72 .4) Sainz - 68 .5) Verstappen - 67.
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2024 Belgian GP % Race Pace to Teammate 🇧🇪 . Fuel-corrected laps on the same tyre compound and age, excluding laps in traffic 👇
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@kobayashicore Lewis - Senna.Max - Schumacher .Norris - Hill.Piastri - J.Villeneuve .Leclerc - Hakkinen .Sainz - Coulthard . Russell is go with Alonso due to having to drive shitboxes for numerous years but I see no 90s equivalent.
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Something I’ve always liked in Leclerc and Ricciardo for is that despite beating Vettel in 2019-20 & 2014 is that they never gloated about it. In fact they acknowledge things like the car being better suited to them and Seb being mentally in a different place. It’s basic.
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2024 Singapore GP Race Pace to Teammate 👇 . - Laps in Clear Air .- Same Tyre Age .- Same Tyre Compound .- Fuel Corrected
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Norris’ drive was just embarrassing. Bottle the start, make no impression on Russell, terrible restarts and a potential penalty incoming. Must be up there with some of the worst performances from a title contender. Yes he was unlucky with the red flag but god his 2nd restart.
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“Hamilton didn’t beat Alonso” .Am I missing something? . When I say Hamilton has never lost to a teammate OVERALL, that is an undeniable fact . 1-0 Alonso.2-0 Kovalainen.2-1 Button.3-1 Rosberg .5-0 Bottas .1-1 Russell . You don’t need to be a Hamilton fan to acknowledge that?
Yo ya llevo meses dándome cuenta. FormulaPace tira para Hamilton a veces más que a lo objetivo Ha perdido con 0?. A Alonso en 2007 no le ganó (). Sin embargo, p.ej, en 2022 cayó con Russell pero fue superior en H2H. Con razón tan inflado en los ritmos. .
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Charles Leclerc vs Carlos Sainz 2021-23 ⚔️ . Race Pace : 🇲🇨 LEC -0.218%.Quali Pace : 🇲🇨 LEC -0.155%.Race H2H : 🇲🇨 LEC 36-18 🇪🇸 SAI.Quali H2H : 🇲🇨 LEC 40-17 🇪🇸 SAI
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2023 Mexican GP Race Pace to Teammate 🇲🇽 . ‼️Comparable Stints and the same Strategy for both drivers ‼️
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Charles Leclerc vs Carlos Sainz Teammate Comparison 2021-24 ⚔️ . A breakdown of Leclerc & Sainz’s overall time as teammates and a year-by-year analysis. A THREAD 🧵
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Back to this - being underweight by 1.5kg gives 2.5s over a race distance. For reference, both Lewis and Oscar were within that margin so therefore were disadvantaged. Russell drove a great race but benefitted from an illegal car. That margin could’ve put Lewis on his gearbox.
@heidfeldmafia Around Spa, 10kg is worth around 0.39s per lap. So 1.5kg amounts to 0.06s roughly and over 44 laps that totals to over 2.5s. Remember when Lewis was told to watch his lift and coast in the first stint? . 👀.
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Fernando Alonso vs Esteban Ocon 2022 ⚔️ . Race Pace : 🇪🇸 ALO -0.317%.Qualifying Pace : 🇪🇸 ALO -0.187%.Race H2H : 🇪🇸 ALO 13-3 🇫🇷 OCO.Quali H2H : 🇪🇸 ALO 10-8 🇫🇷 OCO
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I knew immediately that Mercedes starting Hamilton on the Softs wouldn’t work because it’s exactly what Ferrari did with Leclerc in 2023. Difference being Lewis was the lead Mercedes driver on the grid, unlike Leclerc last year. The more you think about it, the less it makes.
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2023 United States GP Average Race Pace to Teammate 🇺🇸 . Taking Comparable Stints only ‼️
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🇨🇳 2024 Chinese GP Fuel & Tyre-Corrected Race Pace to Teammate 👇
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I don’t see why Tsunoda shouldn’t be in that Red Bull in 2025. If you’re dropping Ricciardo for his performances this year, there’s no justification to keep Checo either. Tsunoda has done what’s been asked of him, and maybe even more.
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Having watched and followed every aspect of his career for nearly 20 years, I never believed this would happen. So surreal & exciting.
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For quite a while it’s been apparent to me that Leclerc’s strengths lie over a race distance (as is the case with all the exceptional talents this sport has had) . I’m glad Ferrari now have a car that is gentle on the tyres and allows him to put in performances like Austin and.
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Hulkenberg in his Haas has finished ahead of Verstappen more times in 2024 than Perez in the same car 🤯.
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Hamilton wins in 2011 = 3 (car 6 tenths off the pace).Norris wins in 2024 = 2 (fastest car since Miami). If you’re comparing Norris to McLaren Hamilton (who actually had a title to his name) just deactivate at this point. Embarrassing opinion.
In Hamilton's McLaren seasons, where he had about the same experience as Norris now, he was terrible often with a lot of crashes. Norris is performing on a higher level then Hamilton was at that stage especially considering Norris's age.
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2024 Azerbaijan GP Race Pace to Teammate 👇 . Clear air ✅.Same tyre ✅.Same fuel load ✅
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A bearing problem on the front suspension for Hamilton in the Sprint according to Mercedes. That’s the 2nd time in 3 races where something is wrong with the build of his car, which is 100% on the team. Both those weekends he looked the quicker driver the day before and easily.
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Fernando Alonso vs Kimi Raikkonen 2014 ⚔️ . Race Pace : 🇪🇸 ALO -0.340% .Qualifying Pace : 🇪🇸 ALO -0.432%.Race H2H : 🇪🇸 ALO 15-1 🇫🇮 RAI.Quali H2H : 🇪🇸 ALO 16-3 🇫🇮 RAI
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I do feel like Ferrari/Leclerc are the best placed team to challenge Red Bull rather than McLaren/Mercedes who seem to be carrying the majority of expectations. People seem to forget Leclerc ought to have won in Las Vegas on merit were it not for the SC and being on old tyres.
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What gets me the most about Lewis in 2024 is the fact that he outqualified Russell handily in 2022 and, despite losing the points tally, was the quicker driver in races too. In 2023 is was comprehensively better in general. All of that to be completely undone in 2024 due to.
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Thanks for the overall positive response 👍. Some people however think they know better despite having never set foot in an F1 factory and prepared a race weekend💀 . Fuel-correcting is very simple and this is the EXACT method all the teams use to analyse their performance.
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Make a bunch of changes on Hamilton’s car and not Russell . Turn an easy pace advantage into a Q1 knockout . Same story as China. Joke of a team, I’m not fooled by this season’s ‘Quali battle’.
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We’re always told it’s ‘unreasonable’ to say he’s the fastest driver in the history of the sport. Why? He’s the leader in all time poles and wins. People who have worked with both Lewis and Schumacher are on record to say Hamilton was the faster driver, including James.
Pre-Japan 2015 Hamilton is the fastest driver of all time by a long way. It’s a shame Mercedes nerfed him with their suspension changes after Singapore.
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Am I the only one who doesn’t care about the Norris-Verstappen incident? . It’s like they’re trying to force some kind of drama/rivalry into a season where the title is all but wrapped up.
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Don’t get it twisted, Mercedes have listened to Hamilton and now after developing their concept are fighting at the front. He’s not an engineer, but the drivers are the first point of reference for how the car is behaving. Best believe he’ll help steer Ferrari in the right.
#BritishGP 🇬🇧 | Press Conference:. Q: Lewis, with the Mercedes performing like that, end of last year, do you think would you be in Ferrari next year?. Lewis Hamilton: “Yes.”
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All I’ll say is the great drivers didn’t rely on team orders to win. It was a happy coincidence due to how high their baseline level was. In some cases (Hamilton in Hungary 2017, Schumacher USA 2002) they even gave up points because they knew they could make it up. Norris has.
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The tyres. We need a Qualifying tyre that allows drivers to push flat out at 100% through every corner and reward aggression and risk taking, like we had until 2022. In the Race, we need a tyre that falls apart after 10 laps like the 2011 Pirellis that would bring strategy.
What’s one thing you would change about F1 today? 👀. #F1.
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Bottas has no contract for 2025 . He just outqualified both Piastri and Perez and got into Q2 with the worst car on the grid. Why doesn’t Red Bull give him a call?
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ZANDVOORT RACE PACE!! 👇 . I’ve added a filter to exclude all laps for a driver within 1.5s of the car in front which gives us fully representative race pace data in clear air between teammates on the same tyre and fuel load 👍
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Hamilton with another strong lap in the wet where Mercedes have looked miles off the pace all weekend. To beat both McLarens, 0.4s on Russell and ahead of a Ferrari despite being being on his second lap was great. Stellar from Leclerc and of course Verstappen. The McLarens.
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This is what Allison alluded to. There’s actually a lifeline for Hamilton because his teammate next year (Leclerc) is exactly the same and has also struggled with the tyres this year. Ferrari having 2 drivers with the same style will either help drive the team forward and.
🚨| According to AMuS, Lewis Hamilton has a very aggressive driving style, braking very hard in corners and accelerating suddenly out of corners. This makes the tire come out of its working window more easily, especially since the 2024 tires are much more sensitive than it was
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2023 Race Pace to Teammate . ‼️Same Strategy Only‼️. Verstappen -0.385% Perez.Hamilton -0.197% Russell.Leclerc -0.108% Sainz.Alonso -0.539% Stroll.Ocon -0.056% Gasly.Norris -0.237% Piastri.Albon -0.253% Sargeant.Hulkenberg -0.297% Magnussen .Bottas -0.180% Zhou.Ricciardo -0.136%
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Who on earth is making the strategy calls at Mercedes? . Fitting Hards for Russell with 25 laps to go was a good call due to the trade off between warmup and duration. Putting Hamilton on the Hards for a 10 lap shootout was crazy. A used Medium/Soft would’ve been faster.
📻 | Lewis Hamilton: “The tyres I had was definitely faster. What are the cars ahead on?”. 📻 | Bono: “Old medium tyres. 9-12 laps old medium tyres. Remember that graining is a risk.”. 📻 | Lewis Hamilton: “I didn’t have graining on the last one did I?”. 📻 | Bono: “Yea but the.
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Arguably the most impressive part of Hamilton’s win was his stint on the Inters. Cutting the gap to Norris from 3.5s to around 2s put him in undercut range, and in conditions that suited the McLaren better. For me, that was the most critical phase of the race and it won him.
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Pre-Japan 2015 Hamilton is the fastest driver of all time by a long way. It’s a shame Mercedes nerfed him with their suspension changes after Singapore.
6 tenths on rosberg’s head‼️ don’t forget who owns the hungaroring (DR doing the same to kvyat asw)
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2022 Race Pace to Teammate . ‼️Same Strategy Only‼️. Verstappen -0.418% faster than Perez.Hamilton -0.161% faster than Russell.Leclerc -0.302% faster than Sainz.Norris -0.278% faster than Ricciardo .Alonso -0.302% faster than Ocon.Vettel -0.116% faster than Stroll .Albon -0.524%
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Alonso was rated at his lowest at the end of 2007 - having just been alongside Hamilton. Button was rated at his lowest at the end of 2012 - having just finished his time alongside Hamilton. Both of whom’s stocks were at their highest after becoming WDC right before they faced.
There's a very very strong pattern of. -Hamilton's teammates being rated higher while they're his teammates. -Max's/Schumacher's teammates being rated lower while they're his teammates.
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The most remarkable moment of Hamilton’s 2007 season had to be Qualifying in Silverstone. In front of his home crowd under enormous pressure, he was struggling for pace that weekend but pulled out a sensational pole lap. Yes he was lighter on fuel, however the most incredible
There is a reason why so many conspiracy theories exist about Lewis Hamilton's 2007 season. You can't explain to someone that a rookie beat a 2x WDC in his first attempt. Might be the greatest rookie season in sports, not just F1.
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What’s crazy to see is people doubting Hamilton’s qualifying ability because of 2024 whilst simultaneously seeing his ex-teammates who he was quicker than (Bottas and Alonso) pulling off miracles in the 2 slowest cars out there. Makes you realise how high Hamilton’s level was.
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Something which tells me everything about Singapore 2018 is the margin Lewis put on Bottas - 0.771s (or 0.803%) at the time of the laps being set. Valtteri had never been beaten like that on merit in standard dry conditions and has not been since - telling me that the lap Lewis.
Lewis. Singapore. 2018 ⏪ The greatest Quali lap of all time. 💭.
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Bottas vs Massa 2014-16: .-0.197% faster . Alonso vs Massa 2013:.-0.192% faster . It’s literally what data tells you.
Que sobrevalorado esta Bottas, especialmente por los fans de Hamilton.
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Didn’t these same people criticise Lewis for allegedly getting in touch with Horner about being Max’s teammate? . Lewis and Charles have said countless times they couldn’t care less about who’s in the other car, and have actually proved it by facing and beating multiple world.
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Bahrain GP Qualifying Pace to Teammate . Best lap times from final session both drivers took part in 👇
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Not sure where this narrative has come from, but it’s almost certainly not true. Car balances are relative to the driver. Hamilton can tolerate mass amounts of instability. For Hamilton, a ‘stable’ car would still be one that many drivers find extremely sharp and unstable.
Schumacher: Lewis needs a stable car, while Charles can drive an unstable car. It remains to be seen who will prevail. .
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2024 Japanese GP Fuel-Corrected Race Pace Data 🇯🇵 . ✅ Race Pace between Teammates on the same fuel load and tyre age .✅ Race Pace by stint for each driver .✅ Tyre degradation comparisons of Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes
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See what Hamilton does to Russell when they don’t tinker with the car 👀.
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‘Wolfe F1’ on YT or whatever it’s called is just pure waffle. Placing Hamilton in smooth and understeer is crazy. He’s not Jenson Button 🤦♂️ . How on earth you can put Colapinto in any category is baffling when he’s literally done 3 weekends . Shows people will accept anything.
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“How can I make this about Hamilton” . Max produces one of his finest drives and first instinct is to talk about Hamilton 🤦♂️.
Max Verstappen's 2024 Brazil GP is miles better than Hamilton's in 2021
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Hamilton in high speed corners . Found an article from back in 2009 highlighting Hamilton’s relative strength and weaknesses in slow vs high speed corners. Hamilton lacking confidence in high speed has been an Achilles heel since 2007, a prime example being Silverstone where he.
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Joke of a team, fix the car before getting rid of the drivers. VB is quicker than either of their new drivers anyway.
🚨 | BREAKING: Valtteri Bottas will leave Sauber at the end of the season. Bottas won't be on the grid in 2025.
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No, we shouldn’t. He’s only in his second season. It takes at least 3-4 years to reach your best over a race distance. His own teammate, Norris, was getting beaten by Sainz in his second year in the sport yet now some of you put him in the elite crop of drivers. Same with.
Can we finally start a conversation about Oscar Piastri? He's 6th in the standings in the clear fastest car. Any other driver wouldve been seen as a fraud.
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2012 F1 Season Race Pace to Teammate . ‼️Equal Strategies - Top 5 Teams‼️. Vettel -0.361% Webber .Hamilton -0.428% Button.Alonso -0.501% Massa.Raikkonen -0.006% Grosjean .Rosberg -0.064% Schumacher
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In regards to Sargeant’s departure, I’ve noticed a common trend among the rookie drivers since 2022. None of them have seen significant improvements. Zhou is further off Bottas than he ever has been. Sargeant has stayed as far off Albon in 2024 as he was in 2023. In fact, he.
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It’s not often we hear drivers actually talking about the specifics of their own driving technique, but I came across this interview of Hamilton talking about his late braking and actually mentioned his ‘V-shape’ approach to a corner. Remarkable that he’s fully aware of what
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Genuinely I don’t think there was any mal-intent from Mercedes there. Hamilton drove the wheels off the car and was the class of the field. They took a gamble with Russell expecting him to maybe snatch a podium, but the deg was so much lower than expected that he won. This.
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@FormulaUR_ The only people who are upset are the type of fans who see teammate pairings as ‘bromances’ which they never have been in my lifetime. Rule No. 1 : .Beat your teammate.
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When you compare the overall Qualifying times from Verstappen-Norris in 2024, I’ve found it mirrors the Hamilton-Vettel battle in 2017-18 almost exactly. Verstappen -0.129% Norris 2024.Hamilton -0.092% Vettel 2018.Hamilton -0.104% Vettel 2017 . Some would say this points to the
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@412T2Stan Disagree, he’s far more versatile than Schumacher and Verstappen who’s speed massively depended on the front end. The second there was any front limitation, they’d lose a chunk of performance. Case in point Red Bull in the first half of 2022 and even Monza/Baku period in 2024.
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Honestly thought Lewis would get a great result without that bollard. He was up on Russell after S2 and has been quicker all weekend, definitely could’ve been in the podium fight.
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Ollie Bearman being able to jump into the Haas and immediately do numbers on Hulkenberg shows how unbelievable he is. Every single session he’s on it, whether it’s a practice or a main Quali/Race. Furthermore it outlines just how fast the current Merc duo are (even with LH.
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Glad he gave it back, but my god his ego is out of control.
Lando is the least likeable driver on the grid.
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I don’t understand why Lewis let Russell through so early. He gained a net 13s on him over the course of the second and third stint . With that pace they would have easily got Alonso . Terrible call.
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