SAKHIR GRAND PRIX - PEREZ AND TEAM RACING POINT CANCELLED TEAM MERCEDES AND RUSSELL AND BOTTAS!! P.1.

 

George Russell and Valtteri Bottas should have won Sunday's 2020 Sakhir Formula 1 Grand Prix race.  Had it not been for the rare but devastating and poignant systems failure of Team Mercedes!

They had the opportunity to be on the Podium at the end of the race poignantly taken from them. 

Because of the failure of Team Mercedes to be appropriately prepared to capitalise on the apparent opportunity they had to change their racing strategy. 

In this case, the opportunity to make another tyre change on both of their cars, when the Safety Car was invoked about 26 laps before the end of the 

87 laps race. 

I say apparent opportunity, because the opportunity was not really there for Team Mercedes.  

As the Team was not prepared to safely change the tyres on both their cars and replace them with the appropriate tyres. 

The result being that Bottas' tyres were wrongly replaced, and led to him having the same tyres which were taken off his car, being put back on again.

 And placing him at what was to become and irreparable disadvantage and humiliation during the last 1\4 of the race. 

Russell, on the other hand,  had to make an additional unscheduled pit stop to have one of his tyres replaced with the appropriate one. 

To be continued!