Although the race was boring, the thing happening outside the race were interesting. Verstappen drove his team mate Ricciardo out of the race. The interview on Dutch television with Ricciardo when he arrived back in the pits was quite interesting. He didn't give the press much room to make up their own story, but nevertheless they did.....
Clear and audible team orders for the riders from Mercedes and Renault. A faster Raikkonen who drove the whole race on shooting distance behind his team mate and obviously was not allowed to attack him (although this was not said over the radio).
Although young mr verstappen definitely went in too fast and could be blamed for the accident, I couldn't really see a major difference with actions done by Bottas in Azerbaijan en Spain. Nevertheless the judges decided to issue a 10 seconds time penalty this time. For other riders today who did similar things they didn't. I do not yet know whether it is something against Red Bull or Verstappen or just in favour of Mercedes....
As said things outside the racing track were more interesting than on the track.
Cheers,
Huub
Originally Posted by wombat666
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