Bottas was so weird in 2021. He had pace on a good day, but for most of the season he was not only lagging behind Max and Lewis, but on a *bad* weekend he was fighting midfield cars when he should be P3 at a minimum.
You can see how Stroll was really getting close to Bottas’ car at every single moment and opportunity while Bottas was driving very slowly this weekend at Imola 2021
Interestingly, Stroll did exactly what the video says you should do. He let Max by just before a corner, had a good exit and stuck it in Max's slipstream. Nice job.
Still remember reading an interview from Bottas just before his move to Alfa Romeo, how being in Mercedes wore away his mental health, how he didn't have time to improve because he need to prove his worth, and in general just be a second fiddle to a multi-world champion. He's shxt now in AR but my gahd he looks so much more relaxed and happy there and I am lowkey rooting for him.
Merc got pole and Hamilton recovered to p2 after his error. Where did bottas pace go. Happened in a lot of races in 2021. Merc lucky to win the constructors that year.
That's the difference between a top driver (Ham) and a good driver (Bot). The former when has a bad weekend get podium, the latter can be out of top 5 or even top 10. Same goes between Checo and Max. True campions show consistency through the whole year (or even carreer).
Its amazing how that fraction of a second he was off the gas cost him so much speed by the end of the straight, Stroll literally strolled past him with ease...
Bottas is a really great qualifier and also good when he can drive a race in clean air, like Australia 2019, that was amazing. But at defending especially in 2021 he looked like Mavaheer Ragunathan
Bottas had good qualy pace and in clean air, on his day he was unbeatable, but never have I seen a racing driver (with such good stats) that is THIS bad in racepace and craft. Dude is bad at defending, tyre management is good but he is probably one of the worst overtakers. Sometimes I wonder how he got so far.
Top tier driver as long as you don't place a car within 3 seconds of him. Perfect for when Merc was dominating but put him in some competition, sheesh. 2018 and 2021 were stand out awful Bottas seasons, no coincidence those years were when the next best car was close in performance.
One factor may have been the number of blue flags he passed, if he left it to the end of the straight, he may have risked a penalty for ignoring blue flags.
@@dahemper That would be the sensible thing. But my best guess is that Max prob wasn’t right behind him, so slowing down a lot for someone not quite close enough to make an easy pass, means it’s hard to not let Stroll through too. It looks like he was in a really tricky situation, and he lost out.
To be fair,Miami has been his worst result so far thanks to a poor timing with the qualy and tyres in the race,but has done a good job in the other races (aside of the engine failure in Jeddah,where his first lap was simply perfect).
I always appreciate the context yelistener puts in his videos. Bottas car was clearly down on power anyway, so realistically Stroll would have gotten by later anyway. But here I am impressed with Stroll as well. he did exactly what he was supposed to do. Keep his foot on it, built up a shxx load of momentum and drove easily past Bottas. This actually shows that Bottas is not a complete douche and treats other drivers and the rules with respect. But it also shows why I hate blue flags too. Earn the spot. If you can't drive past someone with a car that is twenty miles per hour faster, get out of the car. Blue flags are anti racing.
Blu flags are there to prevent backmarkers crashing into the leaders. Example Brasil 2018 with ocon and Verstappen. Verstappen shouldn't have closed the door but Ocon shouldn't have tried to unlap himself because he had fresh soffter tires he would be lapped a few laps later again.
Thanks a lot for giving also a context of the race you took the clips from with the last screen, cause I was Just wondering how Bottas was lapped in that race.
Bottas has always been a driver with high highs and low lows, and this was a very bad week for him. Also throughout their dominance the Mercs struggled to follow other cars and were never as good at slicing through the midfield as you'd expect.
Bro casually laps a Mercedes while they had arguebly the fastest car at that time. Another reason why Bottas wasn’t championship material. He’s fast, but not smart fast. This video proves it. There is a reason Max is already a 2 time champion.
Actually, Bottas's permanent bace pace was one of the key factors, why Hamilton couldn't win in 2021. Bottas hardly got any points on Verstappen, Perez was much better against Hamilton.
Man, as a RB fan, I can tell you that Bottas had a better season than Checo. Sure, Checo's wheel to wheel is 1000 times better than Bottas' as shown in Turkey and mostly on Abu Dhabi, but there were many times when Max had to fight against both Mercedes because Checo was busy in traffic because of a terrible qualifying
@@sergioferrero46 I hardly can recall any cases, when Bottas could fight against Verstappen, but let's see: Bahrain: he was there, so Verstappen got undercutted by Hamilton (+fastest lap in the end) Portugal: fighted with Verstappen, but made a mistake (+fastest lap in the end) Spain: couldn't pass Leclerc untill the pit stops, his position gave the opportunity for two pit stop strategy to Hamilton, by the way Monaco: he was behind Verstappen, but he could not undercut him, overcutting was a better strategy. Monza: won the sprint race, okay Istanbul: won the race Brasil: won the sprint race. After the summer brake, there was only a few moment, when he could cause a problem for Verstappen (I did not count Hungary). Yes, Perez had a worse pace altogether, he was beaten up on the qualis, in points and podium finishes, but when it was the critical phase of the year, he could fight usefully and spectecularly against Hamilton (and not only in Abu-Dhabi).
@@gacsizalan You say not only in Abu Dhabi, but other than two laps in Turkey, when was Perez ever in the mix? Even in Mexico where Max was more than 30 seconds up the road he could not pass Lewis.
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@@frasersimpson8256 Verstappen was using DRS and Deployment as well, because he knew he had to overtake/lap a Mercedes who wouldn't want to make it easy for him (he didn't know Bottas was going to be stupid). Aston brought a new rear wing for Imola in 2021, alongwith new Brake ducts which caught fire on Vettel's car. Combined with the aero upgrade, and Mercedes engine, Stroll gained and almost passed Verstappen. He would've tried to overtake him if he wasn't 1 lap behind
he had the momentum from the slipstream (which was very strong on the last gen cars)on bottas from 2:33 unlike verstappen who was already beside bottas and just had drs for the whole remaining straight,and after he got past bottas he catched verstappen's slipstream 2:39 (you can hear the engine revs go higher as he got behind max)and that's why he was able to catch up
Hey Yelistener, how do you access the telemetry for these onboards? I've been trying the F1 TV Pro subscription for a couple of days and just couldn't find it.
I don't know, some days he is doing great like in monza 2021 when we went from p20 to p3 in the race but then sometimes he is battling midfield teams like in monza 2020 or imola 2021
@@ihavewaited90daystochangem51 andrew newey said that redbull was faster overall idiot its obvious that merc just faster after 4 races in the last of after mexico go rewatch 2021 if u dont know that
@@ihavewaited90daystochangem51If you look at the data, yeah it absolutely was... And the TD change in 2021 specifically targeted Mercedes and benefited Redbull with their high-rake design...
Bottas is a born Time Attack driver. An exceptional qualifier. But just not a racer. Not someone to go head to head with someone else on the same track.
Another reason lapped drivers don’t let leaders through on straights is that by staying ahead of the leader on the straight you effectively give them a slipstream and therefore are helping rather than holding them up. I wonder if Bottas was trying to do it to not give Verstappen a tow on the straight?
@@MrAndor982 plus in a car capable of winning. Now that they don't have it, we don't see Lewis and George beefing so much. Hamilton fans are starting to be afraid of Russell because they expected him to be another Bottas. Russell is a better and more ambitious driver than Bottas ever was.
I think your not considering the track conditions here, to be off line or put someone else offline into a corner was a risk of a crash, I think without the DRS being activated he might have held on in the slipstream and covered the narrow dry line
i actually think he did this one for lewis. he held max up as long as legally possible. then didnt give him the slipstream down the straight, and tried (a bit too late) to deny him DRS by lifting before the line. but yea badly executed and really bad for his race.
So is no one going to mention bottas went through 8 blue flags. as the the rules say to let the fast car pass at the earliest opportunity, typical within 3 blue flags.
Honestly looking at it again I think stroll would of blasted him regardless if bottas lifts or not. I can almost justify his first lift because I think he might be planning on picking up the slipstream when verstappen passes, but like I said before I think stroll was going by regardless if bottas just powered out if the corner normally.. That’s the other thing that confuses me.. if he did just drive the corner normally verstappen would still of been able to pass easily.. I dunno speculation
And people complaint that he is being treated badly and no more but Lewis' wingman. Now tell me, if you wanna win a constructor championship, would you give a favorable team order to Bottas or Lewis?
There was no way Bottas could've waited until the end of the straight to let Verstappen pass. In the video you see that he passes 6 blue flags already. Anymore would likely result in a penalty even with leniency from the stewards. While there may have been a better spot earlier I think his plan was to let Verstappen pass and gain DRS at the same time. This also lines up with the timing of the lift which is just before the DRS detection line. However knowing Verstappen it also wouldn't surprise me if he delayed passing Bottas by a few meters just to get the DRS for himself.
Bottas 2020 Imola: beats Hamilton to pole Bottas 2021 Imola: losing out to midfield cars in the best car Bottas 2022 Imola: keeping up with frontrunners in a midfield car......just Bottas things.
Personally I think bottas just gave up trying to help Mercedes that year, he saw someone finally taking the fight to Lewis so he just chilled out and watched the fire works
I like Bottas the person, but the truth is he is massively overrated. He had the luxury of being in the best car for 5 years, and we saw so many times if he was caught up in the middle of the pack, he couldn't move forward.
I understand that now Bottas is one of the best friend for Lewis. But in 2021 I think Bottas is mad with Mercedes. So instead of targeting podium every single race, Bottas just circling around and make sure he not holding up Red Bull each race.
That's what happens when you spend years as a front runner team, and suddenly you don't know how to race when you no longer are on easy mode on your sim racer.
Hamilton has been matched or beaten by Alonso, Button, Rosberg and Russell. I think it more goes to show how much of an imposter Bottas was in that Mercedes.
@@drunkenhobo5039 Hamilton beat all of them except russell so far. And all these guys were competitive and played mind games with him. Lewis simply destroyed his reputation coz bottas was considered as the next f1 champion with Williams he was doing great
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Bottas was so weird in 2021. He had pace on a good day, but for most of the season he was not only lagging behind Max and Lewis, but on a *bad* weekend he was fighting midfield cars when he should be P3 at a minimum.
More like P4 minimum, perez did exist, but yeah
@@H_WLLBottas > Perez
@@morgenguten1913 I'm Finnish but I gotta admit that Perez smokes Bottas in racecraft
@@qksf1645 in racecraft yes but not in the others we saw it in 2021 that Bottas is better
He had a divorce in 2020
You can see how Stroll was really getting close to Bottas’ car at every single moment and opportunity while
Bottas was driving very slowly this weekend at Imola 2021
Interestingly, Stroll did exactly what the video says you should do. He let Max by just before a corner, had a good exit and stuck it in Max's slipstream. Nice job.
Thats what Verstappen did in Monaco 2015, i recall him doing multiple overtakes while nearly bumpdrafting a ferrari that had lapped him....
I guess gorge did him a favour by ending his terrible weekend
George*
Still remember reading an interview from Bottas just before his move to Alfa Romeo, how being in Mercedes wore away his mental health, how he didn't have time to improve because he need to prove his worth, and in general just be a second fiddle to a multi-world champion.
He's shxt now in AR but my gahd he looks so much more relaxed and happy there and I am lowkey rooting for him.
He did the same than Kimi before of him,being last but at least relaxed without the weight of a top team(also,driver 1 in a back maker).
He still suxs
this year's AR is also a tractor which doesn't help
@@DaveOtevrel nah it’s faster than others but his talent masks it
Not sure exactly what he expected when going there though.
Merc got pole and Hamilton recovered to p2 after his error. Where did bottas pace go. Happened in a lot of races in 2021. Merc lucky to win the constructors that year.
And the reason for this "luck" is that Perez was even worse
@@dead_locked and he still is, but with the rocketship called RB19 some naive spectators might think he can fight for the championship
That's the difference between a top driver (Ham) and a good driver (Bot). The former when has a bad weekend get podium, the latter can be out of top 5 or even top 10. Same goes between Checo and Max. True campions show consistency through the whole year (or even carreer).
Perez was fighting for P7 every race lol.
Man i'm telling you if the redflags didnt come out Hamilton would have lost big points, don't think he would have finished above p6.
This is one of the reasons why he wasn’t able to fight Lewis in his Mercedes times.
Because they were lapped in every race? ;)
Cos his racecraft when in traffic was poor. He couldn’t make overtakes when they mattered even with a car advantage
there was hardly any reason for Bottas to be this far down in that Mercedes
“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.”
The reason is he's the worst driver to have driven a race winning car in the last 20 years
@@elplan3605 Kovalainen: am i joke to you?
@@elplan3605 Kvyat,Albon,Kovalainenn,Badoer, were a bit worst.
@@elplan3605
You're so full of shit with that statement
Its amazing how that fraction of a second he was off the gas cost him so much speed by the end of the straight, Stroll literally strolled past him with ease...
Combined with a mediocre exit from Bottas, Stroll using Verstappen to draft and using DRS on top of it makes a huge difference.
Bottas is a really great qualifier and also good when he can drive a race in clean air, like Australia 2019, that was amazing. But at defending especially in 2021 he looked like Mavaheer Ragunathan
Bottas had good qualy pace and in clean air, on his day he was unbeatable, but never have I seen a racing driver (with such good stats) that is THIS bad in racepace and craft.
Dude is bad at defending, tyre management is good but he is probably one of the worst overtakers. Sometimes I wonder how he got so far.
His defending at Abu Dhabi in 2018 springs to mind. Shocking display.
He can thank Rosberg and his decision to retire.
Being as good as he is over a single lap + race pace makes you win a lot more points than being slower with better racecraft.
Bottas remind me Felipe Massa in his peak (2006-2008)
Top tier driver as long as you don't place a car within 3 seconds of him. Perfect for when Merc was dominating but put him in some competition, sheesh. 2018 and 2021 were stand out awful Bottas seasons, no coincidence those years were when the next best car was close in performance.
One factor may have been the number of blue flags he passed, if he left it to the end of the straight, he may have risked a penalty for ignoring blue flags.
That's why he should've let Max by before the straight. And pickup DRS from Max to defend from Stroll...
@@dahemper That would be the sensible thing. But my best guess is that Max prob wasn’t right behind him, so slowing down a lot for someone not quite close enough to make an easy pass, means it’s hard to not let Stroll through too. It looks like he was in a really tricky situation, and he lost out.
@@iain8837 Max was right behind, look at Stroll's onboard in the video
i hope stroll could show its talent later in the 2023's season. its injury has compromised the first part of it.
To be fair,Miami has been his worst result so far thanks to a poor timing with the qualy and tyres in the race,but has done a good job in the other races (aside of the engine failure in Jeddah,where his first lap was simply perfect).
@@DerpSherman Feel bad for Stroll. When he’s doing good only a few recognize it. When he does bad, he’s gets so much heat for it.
HahhahHhhHhH😊
That only affected him during the first race. Stop with the excuses.
@@alejandroperez5368 You’re clueless🙈
I always appreciate the context yelistener puts in his videos. Bottas car was clearly down on power anyway, so realistically Stroll would have gotten by later anyway. But here I am impressed with Stroll as well. he did exactly what he was supposed to do. Keep his foot on it, built up a shxx load of momentum and drove easily past Bottas. This actually shows that Bottas is not a complete douche and treats other drivers and the rules with respect. But it also shows why I hate blue flags too. Earn the spot. If you can't drive past someone with a car that is twenty miles per hour faster, get out of the car. Blue flags are anti racing.
Blu flags are there to prevent backmarkers crashing into the leaders. Example Brasil 2018 with ocon and Verstappen. Verstappen shouldn't have closed the door but Ocon shouldn't have tried to unlap himself because he had fresh soffter tires he would be lapped a few laps later again.
Hell no. You are a lapped car, nobody cares about you, get out of the way and don't interfere with the race leaders.
1:45 main topics aside, this scene of Max and Stroll crossing paths with sparks is just eye candy
And those musical interludes..ear candy 👌
Thanks a lot for giving also a context of the race you took the clips from with the last screen, cause I was Just wondering how Bottas was lapped in that race.
Bottas has always been a driver with high highs and low lows, and this was a very bad week for him.
Also throughout their dominance the Mercs struggled to follow other cars and were never as good at slicing through the midfield as you'd expect.
Bottas really was one of those drivers where he would either sweep or be swept, hard.
Stroll could’ve passed Maxey VERSTAPPEN..
Unlapping yourself wrt the race leader doesn't help you much. Better to slipstream to create distance between you and the car you just overtook.
Stroll didn't want to be a new Ocon lol
i'm gonna say it , Bottas is a mid driver in the races , good qualifier but MID AT BEST in the races (you can't change my mind)
I agree
If Bottas had good race craft, he would've challenged Hamilton for championships.. it's just he has a huge flaw which limits him to a number two.
mid at everything sadly
This is why Bottas, a very nice guy, will always be a role player.
Bro casually laps a Mercedes while they had arguebly the fastest car at that time. Another reason why Bottas wasn’t championship material. He’s fast, but not smart fast. This video proves it. There is a reason Max is already a 2 time champion.
Actually, Bottas's permanent bace pace was one of the key factors, why Hamilton couldn't win in 2021. Bottas hardly got any points on Verstappen, Perez was much better against Hamilton.
Man, as a RB fan, I can tell you that Bottas had a better season than Checo. Sure, Checo's wheel to wheel is 1000 times better than Bottas' as shown in Turkey and mostly on Abu Dhabi, but there were many times when Max had to fight against both Mercedes because Checo was busy in traffic because of a terrible qualifying
@@sergioferrero46 I hardly can recall any cases, when Bottas could fight against Verstappen, but let's see:
Bahrain: he was there, so Verstappen got undercutted by Hamilton (+fastest lap in the end)
Portugal: fighted with Verstappen, but made a mistake (+fastest lap in the end)
Spain: couldn't pass Leclerc untill the pit stops, his position gave the opportunity for two pit stop strategy to Hamilton, by the way
Monaco: he was behind Verstappen, but he could not undercut him, overcutting was a better strategy.
Monza: won the sprint race, okay
Istanbul: won the race
Brasil: won the sprint race.
After the summer brake, there was only a few moment, when he could cause a problem for Verstappen (I did not count Hungary). Yes, Perez had a worse pace altogether, he was beaten up on the qualis, in points and podium finishes, but when it was the critical phase of the year, he could fight usefully and spectecularly against Hamilton (and not only in Abu-Dhabi).
Bottas was a better driver for his team but Checo was the better driver for his teammate.
France is a good example, he just crumbled and let max through if he had lasted for one or two more corners max wasn't winning
@@gacsizalan You say not only in Abu Dhabi, but other than two laps in Turkey, when was Perez ever in the mix? Even in Mexico where Max was more than 30 seconds up the road he could not pass Lewis.
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Merc had a rocketship for an emgine. Look how Stroll gained on Verstappen as well while they both had DRS
what you mean the straight line sped with deployment and slipstream...lol give it a rest, they had a great engine not OP though lad
@@frasersimpson8256 Verstappen was using DRS and Deployment as well, because he knew he had to overtake/lap a Mercedes who wouldn't want to make it easy for him (he didn't know Bottas was going to be stupid). Aston brought a new rear wing for Imola in 2021, alongwith new Brake ducts which caught fire on Vettel's car. Combined with the aero upgrade, and Mercedes engine, Stroll gained and almost passed Verstappen. He would've tried to overtake him if he wasn't 1 lap behind
he had the momentum from the slipstream (which was very strong on the last gen cars)on bottas from 2:33 unlike verstappen who was already beside bottas and just had drs for the whole remaining straight,and after he got past bottas he catched verstappen's slipstream 2:39 (you can hear the engine revs go higher as he got behind max)and that's why he was able to catch up
Hey Yelistener, how do you access the telemetry for these onboards?
I've been trying the F1 TV Pro subscription for a couple of days and just couldn't find it.
Look in the description: it's says MultiViewer for F1. Idk what that is but yeah
great I'll keep this in mind next time I'm blueflagged in my F1 car
Bottas occasionally had days when he went missing in action.
Ah Bottas, master of racecraft
This race and even more Baku were so abbysmal from him that Mazepin could do a better job if he was in his car
I don't know, some days he is doing great like in monza 2021 when we went from p20 to p3 in the race but then sometimes he is battling midfield teams like in monza 2020 or imola 2021
Bottas has some poor race craft especially in 2021
The fact that merc win the 8th constructor on a slower car overall question me if that mexican prime minister of defence is really good
@@tedfromyt6523
The mercedes wasn't slower overall in 2021, that's complete bs.
@@ihavewaited90daystochangem51 andrew newey said that redbull was faster overall idiot its obvious that merc just faster after 4 races in the last of after mexico go rewatch 2021 if u dont know that
@@ihavewaited90daystochangem51If you look at the data, yeah it absolutely was... And the TD change in 2021 specifically targeted Mercedes and benefited Redbull with their high-rake design...
@@NFSMika
Show that data then
He shouldnt even have backed off as Max would have had no trouble overtaking on the straight.
Botass was given a rocketship for years and made nothing with them...
Bottas had a red carpet welcome policy for Max in 2021!
Those 2021 cars looked so good
This was bottas crackhead phase
Bottas is a born Time Attack driver. An exceptional qualifier. But just not a racer. Not someone to go head to head with someone else on the same track.
Another reason lapped drivers don’t let leaders through on straights is that by staying ahead of the leader on the straight you effectively give them a slipstream and therefore are helping rather than holding them up. I wonder if Bottas was trying to do it to not give Verstappen a tow on the straight?
What happened to Bottas in this race? No confidence? No tire temperature? Wrong set-up?
Valtteri, it’s James!
Lowkey miss these cars
Russell must look at moments like these and wonder why the hell he was kept out of this car for so long.
Well bottas is a good driver. Let’s not act like he’s mazepin
They didn't want to make the same error McLaren did in 2007.
Young beast rookie + number 1 multiple world champion = recipe for disaster
@@MrAndor982 plus in a car capable of winning. Now that they don't have it, we don't see Lewis and George beefing so much. Hamilton fans are starting to be afraid of Russell because they expected him to be another Bottas. Russell is a better and more ambitious driver than Bottas ever was.
bro am i the only one watching this video where you explain what and how it happens and laughin all the time while reading
Possibly the worst wing man in my opinion. The amount of races he left Ham to defend for himself was shocking ha
Bro got Strolled 💀
He was very unlucky that DRS was enabled literally seconds before
ive also been saying from the start that bottas vs russell at imola was complaining bottas fault
I think your not considering the track conditions here, to be off line or put someone else offline into a corner was a risk of a crash, I think without the DRS being activated he might have held on in the slipstream and covered the narrow dry line
Its the fact that Bottas thought he was so fast that he had to lift to let the leader lap him. 😂
i actually think he did this one for lewis. he held max up as long as legally possible. then didnt give him the slipstream down the straight, and tried (a bit too late) to deny him DRS by lifting before the line. but yea badly executed and really bad for his race.
So is no one going to mention bottas went through 8 blue flags. as the the rules say to let the fast car pass at the earliest opportunity, typical within 3 blue flags.
he had this in Baku that year also and many other races, he seemed to have no awareness and almost no pace most weekends
Could let him by before the straight that way he would have DRS and slipstream to defend against Stroll.
Great Videos! They would be more enjoyable if the text wasn't on screen twice as long as necessary each time though.
Honestly looking at it again I think stroll would of blasted him regardless if bottas lifts or not.
I can almost justify his first lift because I think he might be planning on picking up the slipstream when verstappen passes, but like I said before I think stroll was going by regardless if bottas just powered out if the corner normally..
That’s the other thing that confuses me.. if he did just drive the corner normally verstappen would still of been able to pass easily.. I dunno speculation
Hamilton let Verstappen through pretty much exactly on the same spot while getting lapped in 2022.
it was the last lap and he was 13th he had nothing to lose
Did Bottas lift, trying to let Max pass before the DRS line so he could get a good tow down the straight to defend against Stroll?
And people complaint that he is being treated badly and no more but Lewis' wingman. Now tell me, if you wanna win a constructor championship, would you give a favorable team order to Bottas or Lewis?
All of you are so harsh on Bottas. He still got 3rd in the 2021 drivers' standings and got 2nd in 2019 and 2020
Bottas actually finished fifth in 2018. He came 2nd in 2020, but that's not saying much given how much of a rocketship the Merc was that year.
@@bobmcgod5214 sorry meant to write 2019 and 2020. Thanks for correcting
There was no way Bottas could've waited until the end of the straight to let Verstappen pass. In the video you see that he passes 6 blue flags already. Anymore would likely result in a penalty even with leniency from the stewards. While there may have been a better spot earlier I think his plan was to let Verstappen pass and gain DRS at the same time. This also lines up with the timing of the lift which is just before the DRS detection line. However knowing Verstappen it also wouldn't surprise me if he delayed passing Bottas by a few meters just to get the DRS for himself.
Stroll almost overtook Verstapin xdddddddddd
The idea was to launch Stroll into Verstappen. It would have worked if the driver behind was Esteban Ocon.
Bottas 2020 Imola: beats Hamilton to pole
Bottas 2021 Imola: losing out to midfield cars in the best car
Bottas 2022 Imola: keeping up with frontrunners in a midfield car......just Bottas things.
Personally I think bottas just gave up trying to help Mercedes that year, he saw someone finally taking the fight to Lewis so he just chilled out and watched the fire works
Pretty sure its just the DRS. Stroll was also catching on Verstappen who ALSO had DRS open. No chance for Bottas here.
I think he wanted some slipstream from Verstappen, but still the (second) last corner would be the best place
That, or he was asked not to give anything away to Max...
I like Bottas the person, but the truth is he is massively overrated. He had the luxury of being in the best car for 5 years, and we saw so many times if he was caught up in the middle of the pack, he couldn't move forward.
As I always say: overtaking Bottas doesn't count.
I understand that now Bottas is one of the best friend for Lewis. But in 2021 I think Bottas is mad with Mercedes. So instead of targeting podium every single race, Bottas just circling around and make sure he not holding up Red Bull each race.
That's what happens when you spend years as a front runner team, and suddenly you don't know how to race when you no longer are on easy mode on your sim racer.
I think you mean bottas made Russell crash into him ….
max had bottas and checo working for him in 2021, bottas' inability to actually ever fight max in races was a huge hindrance to mercedes
good music and good video
Another reason why George got his seat.
This music is off topic!
Bottas was and will never be a grand prix class driver.
yeha hes so megaultramid
bottas’ not bottas’s
1:00 why on earth did Bottas choose to close the door on a car lapping him under blue flags? Makes no sense
what are you talking about?he didn't close on anything,he was just on the normal racing line 1:57>
Stroll just did a good job lol
maybe he was just panicing about beeing penalised
Drivers have to allow the car past within a specified amount of blue flags, could this be the reason he chose to go for this?
It’s a maximum number. They can let them go after the first blue flag if they choose to
Stroll just didn’t give a fuck lol
Well… he barely defends his position even without a blue flag so I’m not surprised.
Bottas wanted to steal drs from verstappen but did it terrible wrong
Seeing a car in P9 getting lap in 2021. And yet ya'll say the new regs are bad? LMFAOOOO
And people wonder why he didnt had the same Pace in Mercedes like Hamilton. 😂😂 Enough said
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How do you get f1 tv so good quality?
Max and Lewis lapping guys in the top 10 less than halfway through the race 😂
Bottas did literally nothing wrong there
look at the porpoising. \LOL
and people say that he’s better than perez😭
This is the guy so many Ham haters pinned hope with, LOL!!!!
Bottas is a bum that can't even beat Guanyu 😂
bruv that was a terrible mistake bruv
Zero racing intelligence.
The gap between Bottas and Hamilton was crazy. Shows how good Lewis is
na more so shows how bad bottas is. hamilton is where the car should be in this race
Hamilton has been matched or beaten by Alonso, Button, Rosberg and Russell. I think it more goes to show how much of an imposter Bottas was in that Mercedes.
In racecraft yes but in qualifying Bottas was very close
@@drunkenhobo5039 Hamilton beat all of them except russell so far. And all these guys were competitive and played mind games with him. Lewis simply destroyed his reputation coz bottas was considered as the next f1 champion with Williams he was doing great
@@cameronmackenzie5356 I guess Lewis will never get appreciated it's always the car with him 🤦♂️
The fact that merc win the 8th constructor on a slower car overall question me if that mexican prime minister of defence is really good
bwoah
Meanwhile adolf vettler was in p17 doing nothing while stroll was fighting bottas 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bottas was so bad in 2021