Race start was clean, but at lap 14 Mick Schumacher suffered an insane shunt (this track isn’t really safe, blind corners etc. Why was this on the calendar again? 💵)
-Hamilton and bottas pit under the safety car for new tires, while Verstappen doesn’t, but this would make him drop if he does later
Unless…..
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During red flags you get a free tyre change, so Verstappen gets P1 during restart
-Restart: Verstappen defends Hamilton by going off track, but replays show that it wasn’t leaving track and gaining an advantage, because Hamilton pushed him off + when the same thing happened the opposite in Brazil, Hamilton didn’t get a penalty. But now Verstappen does.
Anyways, red flag again because Perez, Mazepin and Russell had crashed (pretty heavily) on a tight part of the circuit……