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Actually Mercedes were using that strategy, they had Bottas backing up the field behind him so Lewis could pit and come out to a relatively empty track and get after the leaders.

Bottas has a large #2 stamped on his forehead now. Mercedes will still tell you there is no driver preference though and we should believe them.

Vettels pit stop was a last second reaction to cover Max, Ferrari saw RBR setting up and called Seb in 2 turns before the pit entry. At that point Seb was racing Max, his out lap, after a slow pit stop that lost him over half a second, was blisteringly fast as well as the lap the followed that, those 2 laps won him the race.

Also, once he cleared the front running cars that had not pitted he quickly built a 6 second lead over Leclerc. The safety cars negated that lead. Leclerc got stuffed for sure, I do not think it was nefarious though, I think it was dumb luck. Ferrari were reacting to Max and it turned out to be a brilliant move, no one thought the hard tires would be so quick.

Ironically, as much as I am a Ferrari fan, I was barely excited for these last couple of wins. It is too late, Mercedes have all the championships wrapped up. Lewis is already WDC and Mercedes at WCC, that was decided at summer break.

We are just testing for 2020 at this point.