Moore77 wrote: ↑06 Jul 2020, 17:55
siskue2005 wrote: ↑06 Jul 2020, 17:44
Jolle wrote: ↑06 Jul 2020, 17:22
It felt like they were going to swap Bottas and Hamilton around the last few laps, to give Hamilton max chance of keeping 5 seconds ahead of anybody but Bottas and let Bottas stay off the curbs nurturing his car home.
It didn’t look like blocking from Bottas
He was 2 seconds slower than Lewis in lap 69, which put Lewis in bad air, which meant Lewis was slower than Leclerc and Norris
https://i.imgur.com/Fdvzc0K.jpg
So why was Bottas suddenly slower by 2.5s (relative to his earlier lap) on lap69? I can't quite believe he was lapping a Williams as was suggested earlier, as those cars get to unlap themselves and with the number of safety cars (two in succession), they shouldn't have been in the way that quickly after a restart?
My initial impression was, that Mercedes was ordering Bottas to let Hamilton by to nullify the 5s time penalty, but then obviously that turned out to be false as Hamilton was massively held up for the last 2 laps?