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      11-22-2022, 03:32 AM   #255
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Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium View Post
Sure . But was Checo 100% fast enough to win this race ?
That was very doubtful for the Red Bull team and they wouldn't take that risk .
On the other hand : MAX was fast enough to win 15 races in this season ..

MAX was always driving in clean air , that was better for his tires while Checo ran through his tires behind MAX .

It was very clear that MAX slowed down to give Checo DRS to make a bigger gap to Charlie .
But Checo wasn't able to hang on , and MAX's kept his tires fine in the clean air .
Checo could have made it with one pitstop , but his tires would be completely gone .
IMHO .For Checo there was no other choise .

Congrats for Charlie's P2 , he was the whole season faster than Checo anyway .
After what was said on the radio before it was unlikely that Max would hold back more than he was doing to stop Chas and risk contact so Checo could catchup, in any case the drs ding dong with HAM then the GAS and ALB exchange was Checo's downfall holding him up to slip to third in championship and Max's suspicion of what happened at Monaco was quite strong, something a lot of the many virgin fans that were booing failed to understand.
There's nothing to stop Checo continuing in RB and I can't see him leaving as both have made up and if he believes he did nothing wrong at Monaco except for a brain storm at a critical moment then Ricciardo will remain as a third/extra reserve/PR man for RB.
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