Could be. Otherwise the Red Bull seems harder on the tyre than the Merc in these warm conditions which was pretty much the opposite to what we were expecting.
This has been pretty turgid hasn’t it? Expected a lot more from Bottas today. The harder tyres this week were always in Mercs favour but thought Red Bull maybe closer. Hamilton to be fair has been flawless.
Sergio Perez a full MINUTE behind the original Mercedes in his copier version. Another reminder that B and C teams are not the model for competition but actually just make the main team stronger. I actually felt disheartened when I heard Ottmar talking about hoping for 4th and 5th today- if you go through all that fuss of technical arguments with copying and that’s all you can hope for, what’s the point?
So tracing point..... If Stroll gets within 5 sec he gets 4th but if Vettel can get close Perez could lose 2 places! It's a team sport maybe unless your dad owns the team?
Hopefully the point is to learn and use that knowledge to build a better car in 2022? Not a copy every year, think FIA put stop to that.