Brundle said that Lewis had more-or-less matched Nico and the official timing supports that case rather than this five tenths.
So which was it, more or less?
You don't complete a lap it's aborted, no time is recorded until you cross the start finish as part of a lap. Why announcers looking at the F1 sector feeds make something like that up? I don't know, maybe they were lying? Maybe Lewis blew his wad in Q2 and wasn't going to beat him in Q3, I mean Nico has a history of beating Lewis to pole position right?
Maybe I'm just reading it wrong, but the tone of that seems somewhat childish.
Maybe just frustration since I watched the qualifying session again to make sure. Frankly I never understood why drivers can't make their first attempt and if they're happy with it or don't think they can improve, just get out of the car and not bother with a second attempt. I think as a driver you know if you left anything on the table, and it's my opinion that the entire weekend Lewis spent monitoring himself and not showing Nico the way, only to be able to put down the lap he knew he could when he needed to. It clearly backfired.
The thing is that Nico drove a good race yesterday, he did what he needed to do to keep Lewis behind him. He got a good start, thanks in part to the work Mercedes did to make sure there were no clutch issues, he drove mistake free and he won the race. It's supremely difficult to overtake a matched car in the streets of Monaco. Yesterday was Nico's day, and lady luck was with him to the end.
The mishap in Qualifying to get pole, the Sutil crash preventing the Lewis' side of the garage trying and jump him in the pits and lastly any kind of last ditch attempt in the closing laps with whatever problem Lewis had with his vision.
Sometimes one is better off lucky than good.
