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Hakkinen: Red Bull got it right, Mercedes got it wrong

Double Formula 1 World Champion Mika Hakkinen had a very simple reason for why Red Bull trounced Mercedes at the 2021 French Grand Prix, the Bulls got their sums right while the World Champs were caught flat-footed. Max Verstappen took the lead of the race with only two laps to go after a relentless hunt of Lewis Hamilton who ran of tyres as did Valtteri Bottas who was also left out on a set of tyres to his annoyance and he could not match Sergio Perez's tyre whispering skills. Thus what was a ‘sure' first-third scenario for Mercedes turned into a second-fourth within a handful of laps at Paul Ricard on Sunday. Mercedes miscalculated the durability of the hard tyres while Verstappen...
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