First 10 laps were kinda interesting I guess, but blow-by passes always feel pretty hollow to me. Time well tell if battery mgmt passes feel any better than tire+DRS passes.
Starts should at least be very interesting for a while. Especially if unreliability leads to some red flags and standing restarts.
Mercs seem unstoppable in clear air. Since they double stacked it seems like they were committed to stop under VSC1 no matter what. Would have been interesting if Ferrari stopped LEC to see how long the squabble played out.
RUS consistently did 122.6-122.9s until LEC pit (so having burned 10-25 laps of fuel on fresh hards).
LEC was within a tenth or so of 123.0 on fresh hards having burned off 25+ laps of fuel.
Ferrari lap times were actually very competitive down the stretch, but the Mercs were probably coasting (and a lot more lapped traffic than we're used to so lots of lap anomalies)
The story of the race was definitely LEC doing 123.4s on old mediums while RUS took over a half a second per lap off him on fresh hards.
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