INSIDE STORY: Mercedes' Strategic Masterclass | 2021 Spanish Grand Prix

[Music] [Music] we are going to do this [Music] five lights ahead of the drivers it's lights out and away we go and i think mustafa got a slightly better start than lewis hamilton verstappen goes into term 1 and goes past the mercedes he got his elbows out there max for stafford and takes the lead of the race from lewis hamilton and then vouchers they're all clean through the first couple of corners but that was such an important move for verstappen and he got it done well once again verstappen with razor blades on his elbows and he would not yield all fair it was a good racing and lewis did well to just step out of it and uh live for another 66 laps snapper 1.6 ahead the clerk 1.8 behind the only loss at this stage to hamilton was it turned 14 different compromise hamilton quick in slow out 14-15 uh we are about to go racing again with a safety car ending max is going to want to start this as late as possible otherwise he's going to tow lewis in the pack all the way down the straight the safety car is in this lap so from here just recharge off when you're ready he wants to go now and he's caught lewis hamilton a little bit by surprise and look at him breaking the toe then down the front straight lewis hamilton though homing in in the mercedes [Music] minus one target minus one hey look at my target side scratch seven position one please verstappen pits once again an opportunity given to mercedes and hamilton so max is pitted and come out behind we obviously don't want to hold up his race reflex copy [Music] mikey blue flags mike this guy makes us lose the position but will they bring lewis in they're talking about the tyres being okay but the trouble is max doesn't really want to punish those brand new tyres too much on the owl they've got to get him to the end of the grand prix we're not halfway yet so it's not hold up max now we're back on it we are going to go target plus six okay max we're currently 2.5 seconds save to hamilton now so look after your tires uh both front left and rear left were a limitation hamilton going long okay lewis box box last minute call there lewis hamilton coming in for his pit stop let's see if this is a quick one he needs it to be so out loud normal reset your diff okay so hamilton input lane you're passed it now okay so think about your time management now for this cinemax it could be 42 laps 42 laps on this tire to the end james leon tactics yes there is a plan called to stop it's heavily reliant on the staff and falling off the curve though i'm not sure because he'll have a dilemma between managing or pushing to build a gap i do believe this race is very similar to budapest right now look at that then hamilton 1.4 seconds quicker than the snapping on the previous lap max is going to have to re-engage one second okay at one second i think this can happen as early as lap 44 which is when verstappen may hit backmark traffic again the counter leo is that lewis has got the youngest tyres and he's not actually pushing that much harder lewis is now into the turbulent air that's been worked hard coming off the red bull and of course that helps you down the straight but it hurts you badly in the corners when you want all the aerodynamic effect to be able to pull up to 5g james can you get take me through the to stop yeah so if we stop lewis on the planet he's forecast to catch up on the last lap of the race and it he has to catch up because verstappen has to push his tires to effectively maintain that gap it's it's effectively budapest tactics let's see how this all pans out in the next 10 laps or so 44 i would say looks the best i'm getting the view that the two stop would be the best strategy tactics if we call that it needs to be really last minute yeah i think you've got to do it now if you want to do it it's now or never we we are going to do this toto we are going to do this follow yes box box do the opposite to the stuff you need to call it incredibly late i want you to stay sitting down it's down by red stay sitting down stand by red in the pit lane guys in the pit lane okay this box opposite the staff box box opposite the stack yeah oh he's pitted mercedes committing then to the two-stop strategy and pitting right now okay hamilton in this lap could be hungry all over again here so outlet critical and let's go strap five hamilton let's scrub at medium currently 22 seconds we've done it before [Music] his last lap was a 20.7 at this rate he would catch us on the last lap [Music] oh my goodness made 20.7 for hamilton last time out 22-4 for verstappen this is going to happen before the last lap at this rate 20 laps about my progress [Music] he's reportedly struggling with his tyres uh max losses to checkout turn four breaking turn ten yeah we've made after racing we're looking behind me trying to keep up with him with his face my tires so what do you want me to do [Music] this information [Music] so lewis will have the rs bottas is not getting out the way this could this could impact hamilton's uh chance of victory here because baltery is not getting out the way is he going to let him know still maybe he'll let him through on this well i say let him throw he's he's so much slower visibly slower and all of a sudden the amazing teammate lewis hamilton called bottas running in the run-up to this weekend i don't imagine he's going to have some uh kind words to say goodness we're back in p2 not verstappen 11.5 ahead 14 laps remaining [Music] [Applause] [Music] i definitely will if you will when lewis hamilton came out of the pits from his second stop the gap was over 22 seconds the stafford is struggling here hamilton goes around the outside at turn one and the charge is complete hamilton by making an extra stop has been given the opportunity by mercedes to go on and win the race that's what we're talking about nice work it's another record-breaking race on a record-breaking weekend here in spain for lewis hamilton it's his sixth spanish grand prix win it's his fifth in a row it's a hundred poles and it's the checkered flag as the winner of the spanish grand prix for lewis hamilton it's in there lewis made that strategy work beautifully that's what it is it's just too slow it's impossible to keep it behind great job with the strategy to all the men and women you guys just continued to impress me thank you so much you

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Length: 11min 29sec (689 seconds)

Published: Sun May 30 2021