In a battle that appears to be as close as the 2017 is there isn’t much more time before this call will need to be made.
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It could begin the process of Ferrari and Mercedes needing to discuss which driver to back in the fight for championship. Though no fault of their own, Raikkonen and Bottas’ retirements could be significant. Later in the piece Bottas Mercedes engine expired putting him out of the race. The incident also brought Verstappen’s race to an end was, rightly, deemed to be a racing incident. Kimi Raikkonen retired on lap one with a broken steering-arm following clash into turn one between Bottas, Raikkonen, and Verstappen. It was nearly as satisfying an afternoon for their teammates. Ultimately the pair finished less than four seconds apart. The Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel dominated the first half of the grand prix but a combination of Valtteri Bottas serving as a blocker for Hamilton and a slow call on strategy, cost him the top step of the podium. A clever switch on tyre strategy, which had the Brit on the quicker tyre at the end of the race, provided the opportunity for victory, which Hamilton translated into the 55 th win of his career.
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes were made to work hard for all of the sixty-six laps of the Spanish grand prix. While this stat was re-affirmed in 2017 by pole sitter Lewis Hamilton’s victory it was nearly as straightforward as that. For eighty-eight percent of the time all races around the circuit de Catalunya have been won from pole position.
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