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Shakira Celebrates Her Adorable Dad’s 85th Birthday with Sweet Family Photos

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Warning: extreme cuteness ahead.

Colombian singing sensation Shakira’s dad William turned 85 on Tuesday, so naturally she celebrated the milestone with a series of adorable family photos on social media.

“Happy birthday Papi,” the singer wrote in Spanish alongside a sweet Instagram photo (above) of her and her father smiling for the camera. Shakira signed the message with her nickname, “Shak.”

The 39-year-old Grammy winner posted a second photo of them two of them, this time joined by her mother. “Thank you all for your warm messages full of beautiful wishes for my dad on his birthday!” she captioned the family photo in Spanish. We can see where she gets her good genes—he doesn’t look a day over 65!

The “La Bicicleta” singer, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, was raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, and is the youngest of her father’s eight children.

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Blake Lively Bares Her Abs in Perfectly-Mixed Prints

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Let’s get this out of the way: We are well aware that if a normal human attempted this look, there’s a fair chance she would resemble Cruella de Vil. But guys, Blake Lively is no normal human. In fact, I’m fairly convinced that she’s a god sent among us to demonstrate how to pull off fashion’s trickiest trends.

Case in point: these triple-mixed prints. Most of us plebeians would have second thoughts putting just two prints together in one outfit. Do these even go together? Does it look like I got dressed in the dark? Do these polka dots make my butt look big? But Lively decided that two prints just weren’t enough.

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Instead, she layered on three different Michael Kors patterns, and the result can only be described as layered perfection. The mom-of-two bared her abs in a solid black crop top and high-waist black skirt with small white polka dots that hit mid-calf. Her next layer was a plush coat with a wide herringbone print, which she topped with a houndstooth coat draped over her shoulders.

She paired all of this with solid white stilettos, slightly wavy locks, and blush makeup, keeping the attention on her prints. The key here is keeping the patterns within the same color family, and not drawing any added attention via a pop of color on her feet. Even her jewelry is kept in the same color family with silver and white gold, because this fashionista is nothing if not dedicated to her craft.

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Even her sister, Robyn Lively, who is pictured in the background in a black coat and embellished pumps, knows her little sis is a god among men. The Teen Witch star told InStyle earlier this week that she feels thrilled if Blake compliments an outfit she’s wearing. “I feel so good about myself, because Blake is a fashion icon, okay?” she told us.

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Tost plays down chances of Albon move to Red Bull for 2020

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Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost dismissed the prospect of Alex Albon moving to Red Bull next year, insisting the British-Thai racer needs more experience to be considered for a promotion.

Albon’s recruitment by Toro Rosso at the end of last season came as a surprise, even for the 23-year-old who expected to be racing in Formula E this year with Nissan.

So far, Albon has acquitted himself in F1, racing on a par with experienced Toro Rosso team mate Daniil Kvyat and scoring a top-ten finish in Bahrain and in China.

His performances have not gone unnoticed and they’ve even fueled speculation that he could step up to Red Bull’s senior squad next season, but Tost has played down that suggestion

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“Red Bull is a different league,” Tost told Motorsport.com.

“Red Bull is a team that competes for race victories and world championships. For me, he needs at least the two or three years that I always say a driver needs until he knows how to get on in F1.

“I can explain this with examples. He is confronted with new situations in every qualifying session in the first year.

“Take Baku: the sunshine through the skyscrapers at 2pm was different than in the final practice session in the morning. The grip is different. And he is confronted with these conditions for the first time in qualifying. That’s a difference.

“Now you can say: ‘In 2020 he won’t know what the weather will be like either’. That’s true.

“But at least he then has the experience how he can drive over the kerbs, at what angle he has to approach the corners, how he has to react on the brakes, what speed he can take into the corners in order to accelerate out of the corners in the best possible way.”

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Tost is all for promoting young drivers, but the Austrian underlined the importance of timing a young charger’s move up to the next level.

“The more often a driver is on the track, the better and faster he can adapt to new conditions. A young driver learns this for the first time,” he added.

“If he then drives in a top team, the expectations are different. Then the pressure increases, and then he may think he has to force things – and then he runs into the machinery so that the shot backfires.”

“Now you can say ‘Leclerc also does a super-good job at Ferrari’, but he was also prepared really well and showed sensationally good performances in all junior classes.

“This contradicts the thesis that it takes three years to prepare a driver properly. But in my opinion it normally takes two to three years.”

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Hamilton would welcome Verstappen at Mercedes, if only to prove a point

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Lewis Hamilton wouldn’t mind having Max Verstappen sitting on the other side of the Mercedes garage, as it would offer him a chance to beat the Dutchman in the same car.

Following Verstappen’s two recent wins and trending form, many believe the 21-year-old would have the upper hand against Hamilton if they had the same equipment at their disposal.

The Mercedes star claims he would welcome his young rival to the Silver Arrows outfit, although he admits he’s unsure how the relationship would develop.

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“I’ve honestly got no problem with it,” Hamilton said.

“As I’ve said before, I like working with Valtteri. I don’t know how that [Verstappen] dynamic would work for the team, but I’m not saying it would, or would not.

“I see positives and potential negatives, obviously there’s always positives and negatives with different people that you end up working with.”

Hamilton paused and then grinned at the prospect of going up against Verstappen, believing its would allow him to belie a paddock tale.

“In some ways it works well for me because I see stories that we’ve got different cars and that’s the only [reason I beat him],” he added.

“That gives me an opportunity to show you that that’s not the case!”

A move by Verstappen to Mercedes is but a remote possibility, at least for 2020. The two drivers will therefore likely continue to battle against each other in different camps for the foreseeable future.

“I think he’s done a great job and Red Bull have clearly done a great job in quite a few of the races now,” said the Briton.

“I think they will be quick here. They are in general slowly catching us up – though it’s easier to catch up than it is to stay ahead and be the leader. But it’s great to see them progressing.

“We want the competition. We’ll be ready for the fight whatever the case.”

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Honda progress stems from ‘lessons and countermeasures’

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Honda has said that it is learning every race how to continue improve its engine step-by-step, and that the approach is paying dividends with victories for Red Bull in Austria and Germany.

Honda’s F1 managing director Masashi Yamamoto added that lessons from the Canadian and French Grands Prix had proved to be particularly important.

The latter race saw Max Verstappen finish in only fourth place, but Yamamoto told Autosport magazine that what they had learned that day at the Circuit Paul Ricard proved crucial toward their success in the next race at the Red Bull Ring.

Honda set for ‘very complicated’ engine upgrade dilemma

The step forward between france and Austria was so pronounced that at the time Verstappen praised Honda for learning to be “not be so conservative” with its latest specification of power unit.

“I see why Max is saying we learned how to push the engine in certain conditions,” Yamamoto said. “We learned a lot from Canada and France, for the heat especially.

“I can understand why Max compares France and Austria,” he continued. “We put in a countermeasure before going to Austria, and it worked really well.”

By contrast, Mercedes struggled to cool Lewis Hamilton’s car in the heatwave conditions at Spielberg that day, resulting in the reigning world champion’s worst result of the season to that point in fifth place.

Honda and Red Bull went on to make another big leap forward in time for the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim.

“We learned something from France and then we improved our usage for Austria,” Honda F1 technical director Toyoharu Tanabe told Autosport. “Then we learned something from Austria and improved something for Germany.

“We tried to make everything optimal,” he added, explaining that it wasn’t possible to get everything right in the first iteration of the Honda RA619H.

“It’s not perfect because of the different conditions we see for the first time,” he said. “Every time we update the calibration or usage after that kind of experience.”

Despite the breakthrough wins – and a maiden pole position for Verstappen at Hungary – Honda is still wary about pushing too hard, too fast if it means jeopardising the reliability that’s seen the Dutch driver finish all 12 races so far this season.

“Low performance, we can run [with],” Tanabe said. “But a reliability issue gives a big penalty, it means we cannot run.

“We always need to make a balance between performance and reliability,” he insisted. “You need to guarantee a certain level of reliability, and then you need to start the performance.

“Otherwise we cannot run, and that’s a very serious problem trackside.”

Already on the third specification of their power unit, Honda now faces a big question about the timing of any future upgrades given that penalties will put their drivers at the back of the grid.

“At the moment no decision has been made yet,” said Tanabe, adding that the precise timing would be the result of discussions with the Red Bull and Toro Rosso teams.

Despite the recent return to winning ways, Honda F1’s parent company is still discussing whether or not to continue their presence in the sport beyond the end of 2020.

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2019 Hungarian Grand Prix Index

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Welcome to our index page of the 2019 Hungarian Grand Prix. From here you will be able to find links to all our latest reports, pictures and results from the Hungaroring

Session Reports

FP1: Hamilton leads the field in Hungarian GP first practice

FP2: Gasly tops rain disrupted second practice session in Hungary

FP3: Hamilton edges Verstappen in final practice in Hungary

Qualifying: Verstappen finally claims his maiden F1 pole position!

Race: Hamilton hunts down Verstappen to win thrilling duel

Photos

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Results
Free Practice 1 results

Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps

1
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
1:17.233s

2
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
1:17.398s
+ 0.165s
28

3
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
1:17.399s
+ 0.166s
25

4
Pierre Gasly
Red Bull
1:17.682s
+ 0.449s
25

5
Kevin Magnussen
Haas
1:17.942s
+ 0.709s
31

6
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
1:18.188s
+ 0.955s
29

7
Nico Hülkenberg
Renault
1:18.417s
+ 1.184s
31

8
Lando Norris
McLaren
1:18.531s
+ 1.298s
34

9
Carlos Sainz
McLaren
1:18.702s
+ 1.469s
23

10
Kimi Räikkönen
Alfa Romeo
1:18.787s
+ 1.554s
32

11
Daniel Ricciardo
Renault
1:18.894s
+ 1.661s
30

12
Romain Grosjean
Haas
1:18.973s
+ 1.740s
32

13
Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso
1:18.982s
+ 1.749s
33

14
Alexander Albon
Toro Rosso
1:19.223s
+ 1.990s
28

15
Sergio Pérez
Racing Point
1:19.325s
+ 2.092s
20

16
Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo
1:19.488s
+ 2.255s
24

17
George Russell
Williams
1:19.649s
+ 2.416s
33

18
Lance Stroll
Racing Point
1:19.722s
+ 2.489s
34

19
Robert Kubica
Williams
1:20.322s
+ 3.089s
30

20
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes

Free Practice 2 results

Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps

1
Pierre Gasly
Red Bull
1:17.854s

2
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
1:17.909s
+ 0.055s
12

3
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
1:17.995s
+ 0.141s
15

4
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes
1:18.184s
+ 0.330s
18

5
Daniel Ricciardo
Renault
1:18.597s
+ 0.743s
13

6
Kimi Räikkönen
Alfa Romeo
1:18.682s
+ 0.828s
25

7
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
1:18.852s
+ 0.998s
21

8
Nico Hülkenberg
Renault
1:18.892s
+ 1.038s
14

9
Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo
1:18.909s
+ 1.055s
25

10
Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso
1:18.957s
+ 1.103s
22

11
Romain Grosjean
Haas
1:19.149s
+ 1.295s
19

12
Kevin Magnussen
Haas
1:19.178s
+ 1.324s
21

13
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
1:19.254s
+ 1.400s
24

14
Carlos Sainz
McLaren
1:19.398s
+ 1.544s
22

15
Sergio Pérez
Racing Point
1:19.721s
+ 1.867s
13

16
Lance Stroll
Racing Point
1:19.774s
+ 1.920s
14

17
George Russell
Williams
1:19.889s
+ 2.035s
14

18
Lando Norris
McLaren
1:20.401s
+ 2.547s
6

19
Robert Kubica
Williams
1:20.439s
+ 2.585s
15

20
Alexander Albon
Toro Rosso

Free Practice 3 results

Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps

1
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
1:16.084s

2
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
1:16.097s
+ 0.013s
16

3
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
1:16.166s
+ 0.082s
18

4
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes
1:16.355s
+ 0.271s
19

5
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
1:16.392s
+ 0.308s
18

6
Pierre Gasly
Red Bull
1:16.684s
+ 0.600s
19

7
Lando Norris
McLaren
1:16.774s
+ 0.690s
20

8
Kimi Räikkönen
Alfa Romeo
1:17.216s
+ 1.132s
22

9
Carlos Sainz
McLaren
1:17.217s
+ 1.133s
23

10
Kevin Magnussen
Haas
1:17.230s
+ 1.146s
17

11
Romain Grosjean
Haas
1:17.293s
+ 1.209s
21

12
Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso
1:17.432s
+ 1.348s
21

13
Nico Hülkenberg
Renault
1:17.667s
+ 1.583s
19

14
Sergio Pérez
Racing Point
1:17.670s
+ 1.586s
17

15
Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo
1:17.929s
+ 1.845s
22

16
Daniel Ricciardo
Renault
1:17.962s
+ 1.878s
19

17
Alexander Albon
Toro Rosso
1:18.024s
+ 1.940s
19

18
George Russell
Williams
1:18.072s
+ 1.988s
23

19
Lance Stroll
Racing Point
1:18.534s
+ 2.450s
20

20
Robert Kubica
Williams
1:18.709s
+ 2.625s
26

Qualifying results

Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3

1
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
1:15.817s
1:15.573s
1:14.572s

2
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes
1:16.078s
1:15.669s
1:14.590s

3
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
1:16.068s
1:15.548s
1:14.769s

4
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
1:16.337s
1:15.792s
1:15.043s

5
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
1:16.452s
1:15.885s
1:15.071s

6
Pierre Gasly
Red Bull
1:16.716s
1:16.393s
1:15.450s

7
Lando Norris
McLaren
1:16.697s
1:16.060s
1:15.800s

8
Carlos Sainz
McLaren
1:16.493s
1:16.308s
1:15.852s

9
Romain Grosjean
Haas
1:16.978s
1:16.319s
1:16.013s

10
Kimi Räikkönen
Alfa Romeo
1:16.506s
1:16.518s
1:16.041s

11
Nico Hülkenberg
Renault
1:16.790s
1:16.565s

12
Alexander Albon
Toro Rosso
1:16.912s
1:16.687s

13
Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso
1:16.750s
1:16.692s

14
Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo
1:16.894s
1:16.804s

15
Kevin Magnussen
Haas
1:16.122s
1:17.081s

16
George Russell
Williams
1:17.031s

17
Sergio Pérez
Racing Point
1:17.109s

18
Daniel Ricciardo
Renault
1:17.257s

19
Lance Stroll
Racing Point
1:17.542s

20
Robert Kubica
Williams
1:18.324s

Race results

Pos Driver Team Gap Stops

1
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
70 laps – 1:35:03.796s
2

2
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
+ 17.796s
2

3
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
+ 61.433s
1

4
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
+ 65.250s
1

5
Carlos Sainz
McLaren
+ 1 lap
1

6
Pierre Gasly
Red Bull
+ 1 lap
1

7
Kimi Räikkönen
Alfa Romeo
+ 1 lap
1

8
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes
+ 1 lap
2

9
Lando Norris
McLaren
+ 1 lap
1

10
Alexander Albon
Toro Rosso
+ 1 lap
1

11
Sergio Pérez
Racing Point
+ 1 lap
1

12
Nico Hülkenberg
Renault
+ 1 lap
1

13
Kevin Magnussen
Haas
+ 1 lap
1

14
Daniel Ricciardo
Renault
+ 1 lap
1

15
Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso
+ 2 laps
1

16
George Russell
Williams
+ 2 laps
1

17
Lance Stroll
Racing Point
+ 2 laps
2

18
Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo
+ 2 laps
1

19
Robert Kubica
Williams
+ 3 laps
1

20
Romain Grosjean
Haas
DNF
2

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Williams working on sealing ‘new partnership’ with Mercedes

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Williams hopes to secure a new engine deal with Mercedes from 2021, with deputy team principal Claire Williams revealing that productive talks are ongoing with the German manufacturer.

Recent speculation in the F1 paddock alluded to a potential change of engine supplier for the Grove-based outfit, with Williams rumored to be in advance talks with Renault.

Williams and Renault enjoyed a fruitful partnership in the past that yielded 64 wins and 5 Constructors’ titles for the British outfit between 1992 and 1997, elevating Sir Frank’s squad to the third most successful team in F1 behind Ferrari and McLaren.

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However, Claire Williams all but dismissed an alliance with its former partner, insisting that its talks with current supplier Mercedes were following a positive course.

“There’s a lot of speculation about Williams at the moment,” admitted Williams.

“We’re talking to Mercedes as you probably expect. Those conversations are going well, and we hope to be able to conclude a new partnership with them going into 2021.

“They’ve been a fantastic partner of ours, they’ve been very supportive, everyone knows that Toto [Wolff, Mercedes Team Principal] started his Formula 1 career at Williams.

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“As such, we have a great relationship with him, and I would like that relationship to continue.

“I don’t know why people speculate around future or potential engine partners of ours, except to say maybe it’s a slow news week,” she added.

“But there is. I know now what you’re going to write if I say this, but we’ve always had a great history with Renault, but our future is with Mercedes.”

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Racing Point: New factory to be up and running for 2021

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SportPesa Racing Point’s future state-of-the-art factory will break ground early next year and should be up and running in 2021.

Last winter, the Silverstone-based outfit outlined its plans to provide itself with the infrastructure and tools required by the long-term ambitions of Lawrence Stroll and he fellow investors.

Racing Point team boss Otmar Szafnauer gave an update on how those plans are panning out.

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“We should get planning permission in October and have ground-breaking in the first quarter of next year,” said the American.

“The plan is to actually move into the new factory in the break of 2021. So, although that won’t come to fruition for another 18 months or so, those plans are happening today.”

Twelve months after the pink squad was brought back from the brink, Szafnauer underlined the many changes that have positively impacted the team over the past year.

“The one significant thing is that we don’t suffer with the financial instability that we used to have, at all,” stressed Szafnauer.

“That means we can plan our developments on the car. We can plan when we bring upgrades and they actually happen.

“We’ve added about 40 employees. We were at 405 a year ago, now we’re at 445. And if there are good people on the market, we’re interested.

“We’re adding, we’re growing and we want to be more competitive. So, those are our plans going forward – but it takes time. It doesn’t happen overnight.”

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Renault: Mercedes will have no right on Ocon for two years

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Renault F1 Team managing director Cyril Abiteboul has made clear that there will be no Mercedes strings attached to Esteban Ocon for the duration of the Frenchman’s contract with his new team.

Renault announced on Thursday a two-year deal with the Mercedes reserve driver, and while Ocon remains under the management of the German outfit, the latter will have no right call to him back to the team in the near future.

“He is a Renault driver, that is very clear. Mercedes will have absolutely no right on him for the duration of his contract,” said Abiteboul, speaking to the media in Spa on Friday.

“The small difference is that his management company happen to be a racing team and that is Mercedes.

“But it is a slightly different set-up from the set-up that we had with Carlos [Sainz] last year. That was on a loan and not a contract with Red Bull, but he [Ocon] will be a fully-fledged Renault driver.”

Ocon to return full-time to F1 in 2020 with Renault!

The opportunity for Renault to hire a talented French driver is seen by many – including outgoing Nico Hulkenberg – as a deciding factor in favour of Ocon.

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But Renault advisor Alain Prost dismissed that notion, insisting instead that Ocon’s youth weighed more heavily in the balance.

“To be clear, of course the fact that he is French is a plus, but it is not the determining criterion, otherwise it would not be very logical,” he told French broadcaster Canal Plus.

“There were discussions with Nico, someone we really appreciate, but he wanted a two-year contract, we wanted one year plus an option.

“Without going into too much detail, he is someone who has done an extraordinary job for the team, but of course after three years he realizes, and he is right, that we are not progressing very quickly on the chassis.

“I think we needed someone to look a little further into the long term, with freshness, enthusiasm.

“He has that of course, but things are going to happen, we’re going to have to change the team a little bit too, so it’s more to look to the future.

“Esteban, with his Mercedes experience, age and youth, will bring us some of the dynamism we need in the team today.”

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Bottas: Crucial tyre choice set up Mercedes for ‘miracle’ VSC

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Both Toto Wolff and Valtteri Bottas agree that Mercedes’ decision to start the Russian Grand Prix on the medium tyre allowed it to capitalize on a decisive mid-race VSC/Safety car combo.

Ferrari looked set to dominate its rivals in Sochi, but Sebastian Vettel’s retirement and a mid-race VSC turned the tables on the Scuderia.

Both Lewis Hamilton and Bottas jumped ahead of Charles Leclerc and never looked back. But the opportunity was set up by the Silver Arrows strategists’ decision to put their drivers on Pirelli’s medium compound for their opening stint, while most of their rivals were shod with the soft tyre.

Wolff hails Sochi as ‘big step’ to clinching title

After the race, Wolff explained why that call had been decisive.

“It was crucial, because one of the things that we were looking for or that we were hoping for was a late safety car,” said the Mercedes chief.

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“And only the medium was able to extend the stint, and that’s what happened, caused by their car failing.”

Bottas, who finished runner-up to Hamilton, also underlined how strategy and circumstances had favourably combined for Mercedes and allowed it to prevail despite the Scuderia’s superior level of performance.

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“They had a strong car today, good pace and, as we’ve seen this year, they’ve been extra quick on the straights,” said the Finn.

“So I knew if they get close enough, especially in sector three, they are going to be a big threat into Turn 2. Just really had to try to keep it together, try to minimise the mistakes and the car felt pretty decent today, especially with the soft tyre in the corners.

“I think the team did all the right things. Already the decision to start on the mediums to go long in the first stint, you start to hope for that VSC or safety car to come – and today it came, like a miracle.”

Conversely, had there been no mid-race safety car, it would have been a very different story for Mercedes insists Wolff.

“I think we had good pace at the beginning, Lewis was able to hang on to Charles, the Ferraris were pushing each other very strong and very hard, and I think we would have gone onto the soft for the last 25 laps and been on a soft against a medium,” commented the Austrian.

“Realistically, you must say, I think it would have probably been enough to follow the gearbox, like in the last few races. But not enough.”

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