VER PER and LEC each have 2 retirements now. RBR have won the last 5 races, with LEC only outscoring a Red Bull once (2nd to PER in 4th at Miami).
Points scored since Australia:
VER 125
PER 99
RUS 62
SAI 50 (2 ret)
LEC 45 (2 ret)
HAM 34
RBR 224
MERC 96
FERRARI 95
I'm pretty sure Imola is still the only time a Merc finished ahead of an RBR/Ferrari that finished (LEC's spin)...
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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
Considering team orders already handed Max a win that otherwise would have been Checo's it could actually be a thing, or certainly may become one. They would only be a couple points apart in the standings were it not for that.
Would be pretty amusing in the end, after Max crashes out a couple times, to see Leclerc barely win the championship over Perez in part because team orders took a couple victories away from Perez.
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Very debatable. It was a no-brainer strategy call in Spain. VER was catching PER at 1.5 seconds per lap and Perez would have had to keep him behind for the last 17 laps of a 29 lap stint. BOT was the only point scorer with a longer stint (32 laps) and he got eaten alive at the end.
PER is a tire whisperer and maybe could have pulled it off, but it would have been an insane call when Max was 19pts and PER 38pts behind LEC at the time.