2020 Turkish Grand Prix - Instanbul Park, Nov 13 - 15

[Big Tea]

Not relevant really, but just thinking. Would the car have been under weight with those tyres?

[Racer X]

Amazing tire performance again from Sergio Pérez and from Lewis Hamilton. Wow...

[Just_a_fan]

I think some teams missed a trick here. Clearly Ham tires are slicks. Might it have reaped profit for someone to risk a set of real slicks?

The issue was getting the slicks up to temperature on a damp track. The slick inters were red hot and thus grippy. The issue was not to wear through the inter to the carcass.

[dans79]

Such a shame to see a Red Bull win or 1-2 lost.

When albon took third and caught Perez, I fully expected him to just blow right by.

[Mattyw]

Mad to think if he didn't lose it in the pit entry in 2007 and didn't have reliability issues in 2016 he'd be a 9 time champ by now!

[NathanOlder]

Not sure but am I right in thinking Lewis is the first driver to win a championship in 3 seperate decades ?

[Just_a_fan]

Driving the inters in to slicks was the key.

Albon tried to do it and spun.

It was obviously a car specific solution. Perez did it but was relatively slow in doing so. The Red Bull benefited from their heating ability earlier, but lost out later.

[El Scorchio]

Ah. Apparently Bottas had a damaged front wing from the start? That would explain a lot in those conditions.

[Racer X]

Bottas was looking like he has an unbalanced car. So the wing damage makes sense too bad for Bottas but for how much of the race was he damaged because it seems like he was never able to drive the car.

He the most non Finish driver who's ever come out of Finland...

[Schuttelberg]

Mercedes protecting Bottas there!

[Just_a_fan]

Ah. Apparently Bottas had a damaged front wing from the start? That would explain a lot in those conditions.

Surprised they didn't change it once he was so far back. Nothing to lose, really.

[El Scorchio]

Bottas was looking like he has an unbalanced car. So the wing damage makes sense too bad for Bottas but for how much of the race was he damaged because it seems like he was never able to drive the car.

He the most non Finish driver who's ever come out of Finland...

He said from that first corner with the Renaults. I haven’t seen a replay so i don’t know if he touched anyone.

[El Scorchio]

Ah. Apparently Bottas had a damaged front wing from the start? That would explain a lot in those conditions.

Surprised they didn't change it once he was so far back. Nothing to lose, really.

Same actually. Probably would have helped him a lot. Surely would have made up the time it would have cost in the pits.

[Restomaniac]

Bottas was looking like he has an unbalanced car. So the wing damage makes sense too bad for Bottas but for how much of the race was he damaged because it seems like he was never able to drive the car.

He the most non Finish driver who's ever come out of Finland...

He said from that first corner with the Renaults. I haven’t seen a replay so i don’t know if he touched anyone.

I didn’t look like he did to me.

[Racer X]

Bottas was looking like he has an unbalanced car. So the wing damage makes sense too bad for Bottas but for how much of the race was he damaged because it seems like he was never able to drive the car.

He the most non Finish driver who's ever come out of Finland...

He said from that first corner with the Renaults. I haven’t seen a replay so i don’t know if he touched anyone.

They did touch??? If so it's totally possible I'm surprised the team didn't notice tho. I mean they pitted him a couple times minus well should have done a full wing change in the first pit and then he wouldn't have suffered as much it might have been possible for him to finish P6 with everything that happened. Because not only did Bottas have problems but Max and Albon ended up having multiple issues and then Stroll had performance loss so if Bottas would have had a wing change he would have been able to drive with more balance and had faster lap times and suddenly P6 would have been possible.

It's funny they "didn't notice".
But then again if it was tiny how could you. Loss of grip was everywhere so how could you identify that. Does anyone have an image of the front wing to see how big the alleged damage was... Because if it was noticed and ignored... They basically just wanted to give the Championship NOW to Lewis with the rain and surge up the field it set for a stronger looking stage. Made it more "amazing" because if Bottas could have caught more earlier he might have extended the Championship. I'm being a bit extreme and doubting Bottas and doubting Mercedes but Im curious if the damage was noticed... Or if it wasn't why wasn't it noticed?