It's unlucky for Piastri, but McLaren needed to cover Hamilton. No sense in losing the double podium for the sake of teammate fairness
thank God for perez and norris. its a pure drs snooze fest perez closing for a 1/2. piastri has spent all afternoon going backwards after a great start. Hamilton just tooling about Ferrari awful. I think norris is going to prevent a grandstand finish here but we will see. the Aston have utterly fallen apart in terms of competing. sad. at least mclaren shows what a bit of copying can do to jump the field.
Both Mercs on the move. Good move by George on Carlos. In the meantime Lewis closing at about a second a lap on Perez.
Ferrari have decided to ask sainz to stop Russell and so have ensured that both will end behind Russell. Ferrari even pulled into the marvels to let Russell by. serious discontent in that team now.
perez might actually wake up soon. just needs to use the last of the tyres for 3 laps if he does wake up.
stop croft. it's not nip and anything. reality check. verstappen by 33 seconds with fastest lap having done nothing but keep his tyres going longest of all . everyone else had an effective 5 lap under cut on him. he literally just drove the first corner and that was that. just disappointed mclaren undercutting piastri and then the kid just went backwards rather than react and push on. he will need to learn from that.
pay driver overtakes half the field on a track it's hard to overtake on. well done FIA, close racing indeed.
