A performance as dominant as ever, Mercedes continued to stretch their already-insurmountable pace advantage on Saturday at Silverstone. “I guess we’re not making many new friends out there” – Toto Wolff. No Toto, I don’t suppose you are. How could you after a day that saw both cars obliterate the track record, while your only “rivals” went backwards compared to last year? Max Verstappen: 0.049 seconds slower than he was in 2019. Charles Leclerc: +0.255s. Valtteri Bottas: -0.477s. Lewis Hamilton: -0.796s. As Fernando Alonso would say, what a “yoke”. That said, I do wonder: how much of this is Mercedes doing Mercedes things, and how much of this is Ferrari and Red Bull...
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