He doesn't need to. He has a gap (or will have once the stops are done) and needs to stay ahead, so much easier to keep the gap.
So Vettel was 9 sec behind Max, now he is 20 sec... why losing 11 by letting him drive the US that long??? Gesendet von meinem SM-G930F mit Tapatalk
Never have I had such a loss of confidence in a driver as I’ve had with Vettel. Never have I seen such self destruct in F1 as Vettel.
Looks that way; he better do it soon and then he will have much fresher tyres towards the end that everybody else.
This will be interesting..... Lewis has 18 laps of flat out pace to go while everyone manages their tires. Championship will be decided today based on what Kimi and Max do....
So Hamilton's tyres were10 laps older than Raikkonen's but now Raikkonen needs to make his last another 18 laps - 8 more than Hamilton managed... And Hamilton only has 10 secs to make up.