Nothing to do with Hamilton. Russell was following Norris's line. Norris clipped the wall before the corner. Russell clipped it at the same place, just a bit harder and broke the car. If he didn't break the car he would have gone around the corner just fine.
Don't think RB cared about points here. They risked it all to continue their first place streak with a reckless moonshot strategy, and it didn't happen. This was the most likely outcome, and they knew that.
Ferrari tried to sacrifice Leclerc, but in the end it was just a double stack pit stop right ahead of them and then driving mistakes by Leclerc himself.
Maybe the trick is they need to actively try to sabotage one of their drivers to have a strategically decent race.
That's an interesting take, would have been great. But reality is it is very hard to overtake on that track unless you have at least 10kph speed difference and the person ahead has difficult drive. Lando is a good driver and has kept Lewis at bay previously.
2 things. Russell almost got by Lando and Lewis has much more experience than russell. The combination of these things leads me to believe that Lewis would have gotten past Lando. Once Lando would have been cleared, Sainz would have been a sitting duck.
Terrible camera work once again. We didn't see what really happened to Yuki, we didn't see HAM and RUS switching places, we didn't see VER overtaking HUL. The director is just frantically switching back and forth between cars.
There goes the "will they, won't they?" of Red Bull taking all of the wins this year. Good work from Sainz, Norris and Hamilton; that was a bit embarrassing from Russell.
They said during the broadcast that the car slipped off the new jack design and so one side was still on the ground. Likely had to wait for the left side to change tires before dropping and relifting the car so the right side could be taken off and replaced.
RB should have started on mediums or even softs and assumed there would be a safety car.
Then they could have pushed up and pitted for new tires with everyone else. Starting on the hard tires would have been a good strategy on a different track, but the hosts were saying on the preshow that there's been a safety in every previous race.
Of course, hindsight is 20/20, and if there had not been a safety, it may have been one of the greatest wins ever for RB that we'd all be gobsmacked about for years, so who knows.
Anybody dislike the production today even if the race has a great end? It felt like it took so long to see replays of any significant incidents/moves, if we saw them at all.
Plus, it was great to watch the four racing at the end for so long, but why take away the time splits? They just showed like lap times between two drivers at a time for all of it.
was really looking forward to ONE week where we didn’t hear them talk about max all race long and we could focus on a real fight at the front…but no. 5 laps in and it was already “max is gonna lead the race” and “he has a real chance”
like, okay, how about you wait til SOMETHING happens before declaring that crap
Probably clipped the inside wall which broke the suspension. There's a bit of a bump right before the corner. (at least in the F1 game, presumably it's there in real life too)
I hope Ferrari doesn't just run away with it today, and we can see Mercedes and McLaren challenge them.
It'll be interesting to see if RB can do anything from back there, too.