race · emilia romagna

Hamilton jumped from P12 to P4 under VSC, then Ferrari put him on mediums for a stint that lasted 17 laps and went nowhere.

Russell was a second slower than Verstappen through Sector 2 every lap. You can't win races when you're bleeding time like that through the middle sector.

Russell ran 52 laps on hards that were falling off a cliff while Antonelli's mediums were getting faster. That's not bad luck — that's a driver who couldn't read his own race.