"It is now or never," Fatih said to himself, focusing on Max as they started accelerating for the final approach, diving into Turn 10 and ducking behind Max for a full slipstream as they started down the start-finish straight.
Along the straight, he stayed behind Max as he upshifted to eighth gear, staying there for a moment as Turn 1 came rapidly at them, mirroring Verstappen even in the way he braked and where he braked.
Having memories of his telemetry information allowed him to filter and imitate some things that he could fully exploit in order to make his gamble a reality.
Coming out of turn one, he had slight understeer due to being behind Verstappen, though he had expected it and had turned the steering wheel aggressively from the get-go, allowing him to counter it as he returned to the slipstream on the longest straight on the track as both of them opened their DRS flaps.
