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Originally Posted by Razzzor
Two Mercs separated by only 7.4s when one started 8th means there's no real standout performance there. In fact you'd probably give the better race performance to Hamilton. Bottas did the better qualifying.
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The problem with this kind of reasoning is that we never know if Bottas was just going as fast as he needed to to keep Vettel off, or if he couldn't go any faster.
Maybe he could have finished 20 seconds in front if needed (if Vettel was quicker), maybe he couldn't.