LEWIS HAMILTON says Max Verstappen DELIBERATELY locked up in qualifying as part of a title decider ‘conspiracy’. A conspiracy but no one locks up into Turn One and if you do it is not a big one. F1 rules state that drivers have to start the race on the same set of tyres they set their quickest lap in Q2. However he could be reeled in by Hamilton in the race as they are less durable and Verstappen will have to pit first. It leaves the race delicately poised as Hamilton and Verstappen will start the race on different strategies in what will prove to pitch the two team’s at each other. Completely different and a million times better I feel now than I did then.

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