ANALYSIS: How an Australian decided Verstappen and Hamilton's F1 world championship battle
It's been a while since an Australian played a decisive hand in deciding the Formula One world championship, but it happened last night.
The only way to safely clear Latifi's prone car was to slow the remaining competitors down and bunch them up so that a tractor could come onto the track without any traffic. Likewise, it wasn't really a mistake for Mercedes to leave Lewis Hamilton out on slow, old, hard tires that would leave him a sitting duck for Verstappen's Red Bull on fresh rubber.
The normal practice is to allow all the lapped cars to pass the safety car before it pulls in, so that the leaders can have a clear run at each other.
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