New Red Bull protest against Mercedes. First against DAS, now against Hamilton's lap yesterday with yellow flags for Bottas (which did not represent any advantage to Hamilton because he had the second position also), and that they have managed to penalize Hamilton with three positions on the grid... Red Bull trying to win in the offices what they cannot win on the track

I don't like this style . I dislike that TAG Heuer sponsors this team if it continues in this vein. In the end I will have to stop buying TAG Heuer and go to IWC

 

Verstappen out for technical problems... Karma exists

 

Really!?

 

I don’t like the way Red Bull has started the season based on unfair claims against Mercedes, first against the DAS system that had previously been declared legal by the FIA, and today -shortly before starting the race- against the Hamilton's last lap yesterday in Q3, which had also been declared correct by the Stewards, and which furthermore had not provided him with any advantage over any Red Bull driver, as Hamilton was also ahead of them even canceling that lap. I don’t like this type of claim at all, it’s playing dirty and trying to win in the offices what you are unable to do better on the track. But Karma exists, and Red Bull comes out with 0 points from this race, while Mercedes is leading both drivers and constructors standings

I certainly don’t like that TAG Heuer sponsors a team that acts in such an unsportsmanlike way, because it’s not about winning at all costs. When we talk about brand image, it matters more how you win or race than the result itself. And for me Red Bull has lost a lot of image with these bad loser claims

Too bad my budget now does not allow me to buy an IWC now, but of course the team they have chosen to sponsor makes them have all my sympathy, a sympathy that Red Bull just lost to me, and therefore the sponsorship of TAG Heuer to Red Bull has become a negative thing for me. I just hope that Red Bull stop their complain filing ways in the future to avoid me this conflict with my favourite watch brand... I already had enough negative sponsorship with Cristiano Ronaldo!

 

Yes, of course Bottas hindered Hamilton in his attempt to get those 5 seconds away from the drivers behind him. I also think that, as a team, Mercedes should prioritize a 1-2 trying to dilute that penalty (also I think it was unfair, because the touch with Albon was a simple race incident). Asking Bottas to let Hamilton pass for a Bottas 1st and Hamilton 2nd (or at least 3rd) would have made a lot of sense

 

Mercedes is allowed to run this DAS system because they have invented it and because is legal. This is innovation and creativity, something that should be rewarded. The other teams are free to copy the idea and try to develop it, instead of just filing claims

Of course I could understand that Horner made a protest about Hamilton lap under the yellow flag if thanks to that lap he would have surpassed any of his drivers, but even without that lap, Hamilton was already second and was already ahead of his two drivers. The Stewards already investigated the situation, concluding that there were yellow and green lights at the same time, and that therefore they were not going to sanction Hamilton as there was a contradictory message. That after all that, and taking into account that the Red Bull drivers had not been affected by that Hamilton lap, Horner claimed -after the deadline, and shortly before the start of the race- that lap, it seems to me to be a bad loser and very unsportsmanlike. This is not the way I like a team sponsored by my favorite watch brand to behave.

 

With only three laps to go, in the same car and on the same tires, Bottas could easily finish the race within 5 seconds of Hamilton if he let him pass. Hamilton couldn't get away from Bottas more than 1.6s per lap!