Well with my earlier post, I only had a couple spare minutes just after the race so thought I'd jokingly take a leaf out of
@Erti147's post race 'hahahaha' book.

(LC just incase in your in a hurry a reply to you is at the bottom of this post)
Anyway as for the race, yeah obviously Seb getting the first stop and undercut to jump Leclerc shouldn't really happen but circumstances played out that turned it into a race defining moment.
My thoughts pretty much sort of echo
@iJokeri22 earlier post on this, when Ferrari pitted Seb I was 100% sure there focus was to try jump Hamilton and in turn to force Merc's hand to pit next lap like Leclerc, but they wouldn't have factored that Seb could jump Leclerc as well.
As when Seb pitted he was about 3.4 behind Leclerc and he also had a 3 sec stop to Leclerc's 2.4, so Seb made up over 4 seconds on his outlap alone, it was very surprising the undercut was that strong though equally you could praise Seb for putting in a outlap like that.
However once Seb took the net lead he didn't look back, he scythed his way past the few drivers that hadn't pitted, (will add the pass on Gasly was a bit aggressive but it was ruthless and controlled) and built up a 5/6 second lead just before the SC came out, Seb then had 3 flawless SC restarts, great pace and didn't put a foot wrong all race to earn the win - of course I'm very happy. (for a change lol)
With Leclerc's radio messages during the race, I don't have a problem with it and I think anyone in those circumstances would have been unhappy with how the race played out, maybe he shouldn't have done multiple radio messages about it, but he's a young hungry driver who's had his first taste of victory and won the last 2 and wants to naturally keep winning now.
They could've pitted Leclerc into the same gap that they put Vettel into. They're still favouring Vettel, maybe they feel the need to rebuild him. Leclerc is ahead in the championship by 5 points even though they've just gifted Seb a 14 point swing.
With the upper hand at a lot of the remaining tracks, Verstappen (obviously NOT Bottas after today's message from the pitwall) could take points off Hamilton.
The thing is Steve with the undercut and those pitstops is they still wanted to stretch the first stint a bit more and were playing cat and mouse, but it is clear they could have pitted the top 2 and came out in clean air but they choose not too, however Ferrari see Red Bull in the pitlane as well and have to cover Mad Max off so they pit Seb and it works out perfectly and gets Ferrari the 1-2 in the end and the rest is history.
Though I would query what Merc where doing strategy wise as they were in the pitlane when Seb and Mad Max pitted, if they actually bring Hamilton in instead of doing their standard fake dummy stop then Hamilton wins the race, its as simple as that.
I mean you could criticise the Ferrari strategists and say there favouring Seb all you want, but whether you like it or not from a team perspective they executed perfectly as neither driver can challenge/are a threat for the WDC now, the Merc strategists where the real villains of this masterpiece today with that radio message to Bottas underlining this - that radio message by James spoke volumes essentially saying, 'sorry Bottas your not allowed to get ahead of your championship rival despite being 2nd in the championship and 63 points behind.' (before the race)
The WDC is basically over (if you honestly think that Mad Max/Leclerc still have a chance your either mad or extremely optimistic

) the only driver that still has a very small chance of catching Hamilton is Bottas, and Merc through their own incompetence today had to stop Bottas from jumping Hamilton, to be fair with the strategy they gave Hamilton I guess it was the right thing to do but from a racing perspective...
but we did get a glimpse of how selfish leclerc can be. Could barely raise a smile. I mean come on mate you beasted the last 2 races and now your team has it's first 1,2.
I've said it before and I'll say it again all top drivers are selfish to a degree at times, they have to be.
Glad to see Vettel get this one tbh, he is a nice guy but his driving has been shite for a long time so hopefully this gives him a boost cos he is a decent driver when he's hungry.
Are you suggesting he ate a snickers before the race LC?
