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Old 27 Jun 2019, 13:39 (Ref:3914434)   #234
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Originally Posted by F1Pete View Post
Okay, Bottas was a few seconds behind in last weekend's race....

What the heck was all that blue smoke billowing out of Bottas' car prior to race? The camera caught it a couple of times. Once leaving the pit lane and the other during the formation lap.

Sometimes Brundle comments it is due to overfilling of oil, but no one made any comments on this at all.

Anyway, it wasn't normal operation. Could there have been some power loss resulting in losing x amount of tenths per lap? Hammy was steadily pulling away each lap for no apparent reason right from the get go. Again, this wasn't normal...
A couple of explanations have come out of the Mercedes camp this week.

Mercedes explain why the Virtual Safety Car cost Bottas four seconds
'Bottas was at risk of receiving a penalty and had to slow down suddenly, which left him four seconds “positive” to the target time when the VSC period suddenly ended.'

Tyre management

'So had take care a lot of the fronts in many of the corners and maybe being a lot on the conservative side, losing some big chunks of time, just by managing and being on the safe side. And in the end, that’s why it became a bit close with Charles [Leclerc], closer than we wanted.'
'We were suffering with some front tyres blistering in the last stint. We were a little bit concerned and just wanted to be on the safe side so we would definitely make it to the end without any failure on the front tyre.'
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