Sebastian Vettel’s triumph in the Bahrain Grand Prix, Mercedes are confronting a choice they trusted they could never need to make. The way of Vettel’s win, the second in three races so far this season for the Ferrari man, could compel them into picking a main driver, and requesting that the other play go down to his title offer.
That is the thing that in the long run occurred in Bahrain, when Mercedes at long last – just before half-remove – got a handle on the bother and requested Valtteri Bottas to move over and let Lewis Hamilton by.
By then, it was short of what was needed. Vettel had a six-second lead and, in spite of a valiant charge by Hamilton after a late pit stop, the German won by about a similar edge.
A short time later, the disposition at Mercedes coordinated the night skies on the Arabian promontory, and team boss Toto Wolff was at that point pondering his problem.
To what extent before you need to pick one driver to back for the title, he was inquired?
“We don’t like that,” he said. “At all. It is not what we have done the past couple of years. But the situation is different now. So it needs a proper analysis what it means and where we are.
“We’d like to give each of them equal opportunity at the start of the race. We owe it to them. Then you see what we did in the race. We made the call. We made the call twice.”
Similarly as in Australia at the primary race of the season, Vettel and Ferrari’s triumph depended on forceful key deduction and great utilization of tires.
The German, third on the grid, bounced Hamilton off the line – as he was constantly prone to do from the cleaner side of the grid – and opened into second place behind Bottas.
The Finn had taken his first shaft position on Saturday. He updated Hamilton after what Mercedes said was a backside snap thusly 10 on Hamilton’s last lap, yet which Hamilton said after the race was to a great extent on the grounds that the DRS surpassing guide, which helps straight-line speed, did not connect with between Turns 10 and 11.
