Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn the competitive heat and strained sinews of the moment,\nboth were convinced they were on the wrong strategy. Thing was, no-one really\nknew what the right and wrong strategy was. Not even those on the pitwall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Mercedes, running as the car behind, could afford to throw the dice in a way Red Bull could not. So far ahead of everyone else were the king and pretender, that Lewis Hamilton could make the second stop without loss of position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Red Bull could have anticipated that and surrendered the\nlead with a second pit stop of its own, of course. In which case Hamilton would\nhave stayed out and tried to win it that way. But to surrender the lead to\nHamilton and Mercedes for the sake of a strategy that might or might not have\nworked? That would have been crazy, surely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that\u2019s how it was for the hot afternoon, a flat-out\ngunslinger\u2019s duel between the two most exciting performers on the grid, each\npushing the other beyond their comfort zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTell me when he\u2019s in DRS range?\u201d one would demand of his\nteam. \u201cI can\u2019t put any more pressure on than this,\u201d would respond the other to\na request to do just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese tyres aren\u2019t going to live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTraffic, king blue flags.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s the wind doing?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBrake temps, brake temps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHas he got car damage? Why\u2019s he dropped back?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou need to give me full power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDon\u2019t know how much tyres will be left at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A barrage of radio demands from each of them, like fighter\npilots taking flak, as they each understood the only way to win was to push the\nother beyond his limits. But whose were higher?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As it turned out, the Mercedes appeared to have a small\nunderlying pace advantage on race day \u2013 and that\u2019s all it turned on. Merc\nreckoned it had maybe 0.15sec, at most, on the recently improved Red Bull, an\nestimate Red Bull agreed with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such was the pace Hamilton had forced upon the Red Bull,\nVerstappen didn\u2019t have enough rubber left to fend off the Merc strategy gamble.\n\n\u201cMy tyres are dead,\u201d Verstappen radioed with\nseven laps to go. Three laps later, the hunter pounced upon the tired,\ndefenceless, exhausted hunted. Around a minute back, Sebastian Vettel passed\nthe other Ferrari of Charles Leclerc for the final podium place.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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