There doesn’t seem to be anything you can throw at either of the championship contenders right now that is going to force them to give up significant points to their rival.
After Lewis Hamilton’s qualifying drama in Brazil, it was Max Verstappen’s turn to be the centre of an investigation this weekend, with his failure to slow for double waved yellow flags on his final Q3 run landing him in hot water.
It’s only fair to point out that Valtteri Bottas and Carlos Sainz were also investigated, with Bottas earning a three-place grid penalty for missing a single waved yellow. It didn’t result in much dissent from Mercedes, as Bottas himself admitted he simply hadn’t seen the flag. Sainz claimed the same, but he slowed when seeing Pierre Gasly’s stricken AlphaTauri and was cleared.
