IT’S HONOURS EVEN FOR OCON AND NORRIS…
MERCEDES
8 A vintage Hamilton race display, with a pair of nice passes to seal the lead and his typical tyre-management prowess. But he can’t score higher because of his “messy” Q3 laps, which cost him a pole that was there to be taken, and because he screwed up the safety-car restart.
Taking pole redeems him, but there’s a sense that Hamilton and Verstappen threw it away rather than Bottas seizing it. Made a good start and nailed the restart, but pace on the mediums was a shade poorer than his rivals. That cost him the lead and a slide on cold hards gave
