Weak stewards again regarding Ferrari (Vettel) and baffling why the Bottas retirement brought about a safety car!
I'm expecting them to dismiss the drs in yellow flags zone too.
It was sticking out and as the Ferrari clash proved, cars can crash on the straight meaning cars sticking out even a bit are a hazard. Had he parked in the same 'slightly on track' place just around the corner it would have been completely out of the line of fire there.
SO angry though, I use f1calendar to keep track of the practice sessions and it said the race started an hour later than it did and as I don't watch much of the preshow the race was on when I turned it on, turned it straight off and watched the later replay.
Vettel with more of his, I'll just have a little swerve at someone to prove how big of a man I am and Leclerc not moving ends up causing a collision. Drivers in general do far far too much of this pushing someone across the track once they get alongside, it's dangerous and stupid. THink Singapore, Vettel does it way to often, he shouldn't be throwing away titles or hitting his team mates because he thinks he has a god given right to turn into people. Of course Leclerc has the same attitude, his swipe at Lando on the first lap was worse but with no consequences.
I don't understand the Hamilton penalty, they are saying that because Albon was just using the racing line it was entirely Hamilton's fault. It's pretty clear that he was decently alongside and that Albon should really have left space and he opened up a huge space for Hamilton to move into initially. I think it was two pieces of bad driving from Albon, zero defensively thinking with the line he took then zero awareness of Hamilton as he turned into the apex. He both could have easily taken a line that kept Ham behind to begin with and then he could have taken an easy 4th with a good chance to get back at him and instead he imo took himself out of the race.
At best I'd say this was more Albon's fault but racing incident would have been fine, Ham penalty seems absurd to me but there you go.
Merc's pit strategy again frustrates in it's stupidity. Going from good tires to an early undercut, then going longer on the second set, not pitting under the safety car when it was plainly clear it would be the best idea. If you want to pit if Verstappen doesn't then you've decided that you have the space to pit and not pass anyone... what use would track position be to someone with faster and newer tires. IT should have been pit either way and they shouldn't have given Red Bull a heads up. they need a code for that, pit now, without saying those words. It was a clear as day pit and you ahve a good chance, don't pit and you're ****** situation and they helped RBR avoid a screw up then walked into it themselves.
That's interesting about the electrical system though.
