Ohndie Morrie. Great player, with him you can also see the storm in your head that tennis can be. Incredibly hard sport in that regard.
But back on topic, and this is not a slight on Russell who clearly is quick. But JA isn’t talking total BS. And I am not a fan of Bottas at all. He did outqualify Russell. Yeah not by much. But so did neither Verstappen and yet they locked out front row. And at the start you could clearly see Russell did much better, has better car control and race craft, also in the first stint Russell was managing the gap and seemed to have reserve still. But after the first pit stop (why was Bottas kept out 3 laps longer losing 2 secs per lap on his old yellows?) Bottas was closing in. Might be team politics, discussed. Don’t drive faster then needed, keep a 3-5 sevs gap at max, who knows, but Bottas was closing in. After the second pitstop Bottas was put back on the same White he came in on (whilst loosening a minute or so for no reason at all and Russell got almost new yellows after the second pitstop in a row. At restart he had a humongous tire advantage. And then later on almost new reds he had an advantage so big humongous doesn’t even cover it anymore. So how much faster was he really, how can we compare?
Again, not trying to downplay Russell, or unplay Bottas but described above are facts that need to be taken into account.
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