British Grand Prix 2015, Silverstone - Race 9/19

drunkenmaster said:
They had NO SHOT at a win. What they did by having a two car buffer, is meaning both Williams are ahead of one Mercedes and now it might be to the end.

As such they may have turned 3rd/4th into 2nd/3rd.

Again if Bottas passed the slower Massa who was slower out of all those corners onto the DRS straights, he would have been very vulnerable to Hamilton. Meaning one merc directly behind each WIlliams, Merc undercut one car each at least and it would likely have been Rosberg ahead of one if not both of the Williams.

The difference is that Bottas was so much stronger out of corners than Massa has been, meaning he's a far better rear gunner than Massa is.
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I don't buy that

If Hamilton couldn't pass massa, and bottas could pull away it's well within reason it could be bottas Hamilton Rosberg massa
And no reason Hamilton was bound to get past bottas
 
CaptainRAVE said:
If Rosberg is two stopping and it rains he is fine. I am surprised Hamilton isn't opening up the gap more with rain incoming.
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I suppose the flip side is if it doesn't rain he needs to go to the end on those tyres, which he can't do if he's mullered the tyres.
 
Yup, if Hamilton has to change everyone will so no net loss or gain. If the rain doesn't come Hamilton will need to keep his tyres in shape.
 
I'm now single al4x said:
I don't buy that

If Hamilton couldn't pass massa, and bottas could pull away it's well within reason it could be bottas Hamilton Rosberg massa
And no reason Hamilton was bound to get past bottas
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Precisely.... Bottas had both better exit than Massa AND DRS. I fully expected Bottas should he be allowed by to pull out over a second gap, Massa would then not have DRS while Bottas defending DID have DRS. Massa would have been significantly slower than Bottas down every straight and that is what was protecting Bottas. The Merc's close on the Williams through the twisty sections but Bottas got good drive and had a space to use DRS to pull away from the Merc. Without the DRS and with worse exit Massa would have been very vulnerable. Also Hamilton usually left the straight closer to Bottas than Bottas was to Massa.

Once Hamilton passed Massa within a couple of laps then he'd close back on Bottas easily.

Another thing is actually letting a car past safely usually costs you a minimum of 3-4/10ths, sometimes more, because you have to brake earlier or take a bad line in a corner, Hamilton may have gotten him straight away.
 
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