Did anyone notice Lance Stroll at the end of his interview. He said let me go to sleep and he would worry about the race tomorrow.
I think it hit him who's behind him... Obviously everyone... But specifically Max and Perez who he cannot possibly beat because if he can manage to stay in front of Perez he will probably be undercut with a tire management master class from Sergio which will open up the possibilities for Max to beat him if he tries to stay ahead of Pérez. Stroll has to almost ignore Sergio.
That's the first thing Lance needs to do is to run his own race completely and only focused on Max.
Max needs to worry about quickly getting infront of Stroll so that Lance doesn't hold him up and then they get undercut by Perez both Stroll and Max. So Max needs to very very quickly get ahead of Stroll and then let the Racing Points fight each other and during that fight Max can then easily win....
Sergio will go for a long strategy no matter what it's his only chance. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Albon get ahead of Perez in the opening laps since Perez won't exactly be racing for track position but rather managing tires....
So perhaps RedBull has Albon attack and slow down both Racing Points by creating some traffic to allow Max to avoid the Perez undercut and at the same time gather distance to the rest of the field with Albon fighting the Force India's.
For the first time Albon will actually come into play as a number 2 driver...
Essentially if Max ignores Perez and quickly gets ahead if Stroll and at the same time Albon can manage to hold up at least Perez if not possibly also Stroll
We could very easily see a Max EASY Victory. That he will take between laps 1 - 25.
By then Mercedes might get back on the podium but I dont think they will catch up to Max.
Essentially the Racing Points and Albon could potentially hold back Mercedes enough to give Max an easy win.
But I still think Perez could potentially undercut both Stroll and Albon. But I think Albon will probably lock up his tires early get some patches and have to end up on a 2 stop strategy and potentially go P6... Hes shown he's very bad at breaking into turns. Stroll has better speed then Albon in race and Perez has better race speed then Stroll.
But the Mercedes is still Mercedes(King)...
So...
My prediction is
Max
Hamilton
Perez
Bottas
Stroll.
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