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Originally Posted by S griffin
Don’t know where that drive came from. How he managed to keep the pace up without anything going wrong with him or the car really is something from Ham
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It looked like a pretty simple race from Hamilton - I think he (and the car) had plenty left in the tank, once Bottas has fluffed the start then Hamiltons afternoon was about as easy as they get in F1 (despite all the usual guff from Hamilton and Mercedes about how 'close' it is - they should drop the act, it's getting really annoying as it's so obviously not true).
Driver of the Grand Prix for me probably Magnussen - that Haas has no business being in the points. Good call to swap to slicks (althought the call to originally be on wets was extremely odd) and he clung on as the faster cars came back at him - Grosjean went backwards much quicker.
Honourable mentions for Max (once the race actually started
), Albon for a good recovery drive after the team botched qualifying, Stroll for not fading during the race and Kvyat for hanging in there in the points (and also making the early call to switch to slicks)