djones wrote: ↑01 Aug 2021, 17:27
This is going to be so hard for the team going into the summer break.
The worst thing is not losing the lead of the championship, it's the fact Mercedes have fixed their aero issues and are now much faster (than they were). All things being equal I think Max would have probably finished 3rd today after what we saw in the FP sessions and then reinforced in qualifying.
It was a wet start and Bottas is rubbish in such situations and he had already lost heaps of places. If the lap 1 would have been clean for everyone, there was all to play for. It could have been anyone's race between Hamilton and Max. It takes 2 seconds performance advantage on this track to overtake and there were many possibilities for strategy. So, everything was possible.
It was a very difficult weekend for Red Bull to start with as they struggled to get the balance right. It felt like RB16 and not RB16B, which made things difficult in the first place. I strongly hope that they come back after summer break with everything sorted. I just hope luck evens out between the two drivers. Despite being almost inch perfect, Max is trailing and despite having one of the most error prone seasons, Hamilton is leading. That is nature at it's unfair worst.