Lewis Hamilton has won his first race of the year, thanks to a very unfortunate retirement of Valtteri Bottas a few laps from the end. Kimi Raikkonen finished second for Ferrari, ahead of Perez who scores the first points of the season for Force India.
Really underserved victory, Bottas should have won instead
You know, i agree, Bottas should have/could have, but i am not that convinced we might not have seen a tussle for the lead with Hamilton closely behind, gap at 1.2, on those cold ultras. Would have been great to see.
And lets not forget that strategy brought Bottas in contention in the first place. In the first stint he was as far back as 6 seconds to Hamilton.
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Gutted for Bottas, didnt deserve that, the moment he went over that debris I could see it coming. Seb probably regrets that move now because he would've won the race but least he went for it.
Really underserved victory, Bottas should have won instead
You know, i agree, Bottas should have/could have, but i am not that convinced we might not have seen a tussle for the lead with Hamilton closely behind, gap at 1.2, on those cold ultras. Would have been great to see.
And lets not forget that strategy brought Bottas in contention in the first place. In the first stint he was as far back as 6 seconds to Hamilton.
Yeah, he didn't even have chance to defend. He must be very angry...
On Verstappen vs Ricciardo i don't think Verstappen moved enough to call it moving in the braking zone or double weaving, from the front his line is pretty straight.