podium.
Sebastian Vettel continued to increase the gap to Lewis but Lewis eventually caught up but wasn't close enough to make a move. Ferrari made a wrong strategy call by bringing Seb in from the lead (Like they did in Australia and Spain..That's throwing away three race victories) thus giving away the race victory to Mercedes. Towards the end of the race Seb began catching Lewis at some half second per lap but two mistakes or rather two seagulls cost him time.
Yes Seagulls , Seb crashed Lewis's post race interview to talk the pair of "Suicidal Seagulls" due to which he had to brake late. Lewis said he'd asked the Seagulls to be there that's probably why they didn't move.
Back to Nico Rosberg who almost caught Max Verstappen for 4th place SPUN ! although Nico didn't lose the 5th place he made it very clear that he was " pissed off at Lewis" for making that "hard" move and next time will make sure he gets the best of such a situation. Some Senna vs Prost stuff going down in Mercedes.
It seems Redbull just don't want to give any tyres to Daniel Ricciardo. Yet again they there was slow pitstop costing him time and track position. Dan had some harsh words for the team regarding their pitstops.
The iceman suffered with getting the right temperature into the tyres and he finished 6th. Williams were very sneaky and they made a surprise visit to the podium ! . Valtteri Bottas finished an amazing 3rd place due to a great one stop strategy (*cough cough* Ferrari *cough*).
Jenson Button stopped when his car caught on fire and Felipe Massa too retired from the race 37 laps in.
Good news is that the updates that Ferrari have brought has seemed to work as they expected it to.Qualifying where they struggled most seemed to go much better with Seb qualifying just 0.176 behind pole sitter Lewis Hamilton. With a good strategy Ferrari surely could have won this one . But as Seb says "It's a long season and a lot can still happen "
It's back to back race weekends (cue Daniel Ricciardo smile) Every F1 fans favorite time. So we are off to Baku in Azerbaijan which is a new track this year . Still a lot is unknown about this track so Practice sessions are going to be key to finding information about the track and about how it evolves.
Until the next race ,
Goodbye
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