James Vowles said in his 20 years of in Formula 1, the weekend in Saudi Arabia was the craziest he has seen while on the Mercedes pit wall. The race was full of drama from start to finish, with two red flag periods and several Virtual Safety Cars punctuating a heap of on-track action in between it all. Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen made contact while battling for the lead and Valtteri Bottas managed to gain a podium finish on the final dash to the line by nudging ahead of Esteban Ocon. When the weekend was taken as a whole, Vowles – sitting next to Andrew Shovlin in Mercedes' post-race debrief, took stock of just how unpredictable everything ended up being. “Both of us have...
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