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Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium
Congrats for Aussie Ricciardo ! Great race from the Red Bulls and the oustanding pitstop strategy from Horner did the trick 
Max overtook Hamilton 3 times in this race ! I wonder why Hamilton is slower in the last 2 races ?
On the other hand...It's good to see the suspense again ! Because Merc, Ferrari, and Red Bull are very close ! |
From Merc's explanation, its their chassis unable to keep the tire at the right temperature, especially Saturday in cold weather (Track temp is only 15C). Or overheating in bahrain.
Combining this with the power deficit are greatly reducing this season, Merc doesn't have the absolute power advantage as the previous years. Also other teams are much closer pushes the Merc pit wall to make split second decision which they normally didn't have to in the past few years. In this case, I believe both Merc and Ferrari could've pitted HAM and RAI when the SC deployed, like the RBRs did.