Hmmm - Max was never ahead of Lewis ….. in my mind Lewis had the racing line round the chicane. ****ing dangerous by Max - if it hadn’t been for the halo, that could have ended awfully. I reckon Max was so pissed off by the pit stop that he did everything to get past ….. I understand racing, but that was Max needing to back off ……
That was very much just one of those things. Verstappen was faster into the first corner given that Hamilton was coming out of the pits, and was carrying more speed even though Hamilton closed him off. Verstappen had every right to be on the inside going into that corner, and Hamilton had every right to hold his line. Just the cosmic weirdness of two bad stops that resulted in them reaching a very narrow chicane at the same time.
Just catching up. I am fairly certain that Fernandez is a scrapper and plays off emotion, while Raducanu is a typical icy Englishwoman. The Hispanic temperament needed charging up and I suspect her coaching team want her charged and angry, so yeah I bet they did encourage that reaction. You could see how Fernandez felt after every point, from anger at missed shots to delight at lucky breaks. She is a firecracker but she needs a spark to ignite.