Ted Kravitz: "Bottas has been on the radio complaining and telling them, essentially, 'Lads, you might say that these tires can get to the end, or that they can do 40 laps, but I'm telling you I'm the driver, and they can't.'"
Martin Brundle: "If we think they are going to do a two-stop strategy, we'll see, but I think Mercedes is probably thinking, 'Look, Checo is probably going to stick with a one-stop here, and we need to have you in that battle.'"
David Croft: "I fully agree with you there, and talk of the devil and you will see him, as someone among them is pulling the trigger! It is the sister team's, AlphaTauri's, mechanics who are rushing out of their garage carrying the brand-new medium tires they had set aside for the race, as Fatih parts from the group and dives into the pit lane at the end of lap 31.
