Interesting! Bottas and Tsunoda to cover on mediums as well as Ham.
Tsunoda will be nothing to pass (no disrespect) but that still leaves Bottas in the mix on mediums.
Yeah, he intentionally --- up his tires.
Trouble is any first corner incident will be as clear as day to the stewards. Hamilton will jump out of the way like a scalded cat if Verstappen goes anywhere near him so if there is contact it’ll be obvious what’s happened.west52keep64 wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 15:48I would say it is now imperative Merc get a 1-2 in qualifying, they need to put distance between Verstappen and Hamilton going in to T1, and use Bottas as a shield.
Agreed, that makes zero sense. If they wanted to start on the softs, they can just run on the softs. There's nothing to be gained from locking up and wrecking a set of tyres.
He also just said the soft gives them the advantage off the start...Unc1eM0nty wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 15:51Horner just said on sky that it was due to the flat spot, but that it was a close call either way
Imaginary scenarios allready coming out.El Scorchio wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 15:50Trouble is any first corner incident will be as clear as day to the stewards. Hamilton will jump out of the way like a scalded cat if Verstappen goes anywhere near him so if there is contact it’ll be obvious what’s happened.west52keep64 wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 15:48I would say it is now imperative Merc get a 1-2 in qualifying, they need to put distance between Verstappen and Hamilton going in to T1, and use Bottas as a shield.
Well the team radio says something different
He was literally just being instructed to "let him catch you in S3"...