DJM48:

Nice post Nick. Extraordinary race. Just when you think you have seen every permutation of F1 racing something like this happens.

I think LH caught MV during the VCS because the car in front of Max (? Kimi) was going even slower than the 40% restriction. Kimi was thinking about his 2022 beach holiday in place of Barcelona testing.

 

Not just that one time. That was the one he got really close. But in the other 2(?) ( Really lost count how many there was Smiley), Lewis closed up to Max at times and then he releases Max into the distance and then wheel him back in again. 

The whole point of VSC was to have the cars keep their distances the same with everyone else around them, not bunch them up like a full SC would. Literally freeze frame the race. That didn't work out too well. Might work better if they established that for VSC everyone is electronically restricted to 80km/hr or something. 


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