UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX - KIM, SEBASTIAN AND TEAM FERRARI OUT-STRATEGIED TEAM MERCEDES! PART. 2.
As for what to make of the outcome of the race. How can it be, we might ask ourselves, that outcome of this grand prix, was so much different from what so many of us might have expected? Yes, it was the case that an unexpected rise in the atmospheric temperature, had some material significance for the pressure setting and performance of the tyres and race strategies. However, based on what transpired during Qualifying, it was know that the competitiveness of Team Ferrari and Red Bull, vis a vis Team Mercedes. Was was on par with each other. As should have been deduced from the fact that Hamilton was only able to win Pole by 6 hundredth of second ahead of Raikkonen. With Bottas not having been able to even make it to the Podium. So, no surprises there, regarding the Team Ferrari and Team Red Bull being able to match, if not better the expected performance achievements of Team Mercedes. So, considered in the light of the facts of Qualifying, a rea