Enough focusing on spilt milk, as it were.
Big Congratulation to Daniel Ricciardo andLance Stroll for having taken advantage of Hamilton and Vettel's misfortune to place their cars on P,1 and P,2 on the Finishing line.
With Vettel's misfortune arising from him being given a 10 second stop go Pit penalty. For bumping into Hamilton's rear and then losing his temper and banging into the side of Lewis' car with his.
During the Safety Car start after the race was Red Flagged to allow for the track to be swept clean of lots of hazardous debris.
Yes, it was that kind of race; the kind where nearly everything which could have gone wrong, did not only do so once, but twice, and more. Where apparently good friends such as Hamilton and Vettel, got on each others last nerve.
And, last but not least, a Big Congratulation to Valtteri Bottas, for having made it to P.3.
Thereby providing Team Mercedes with the the most positive outcome from their probably most hellish race sofar.
By overtaking Stroll in the very last fractions of a second of the race, after him and Kimi Rikkonen came together at the second bend of the start of the race.
Resulting in serious damage to his front wing, which had to be replaced, at the cost of him ending up at the back of the pack.
And, as the 2017 Formula 1 season moves on from the torrid race which Baku has transpired into being, one of the moral we can probably take from it is this.
That fate is fickle, as are the gods. So much so that, one moment they conspire to enable all things to come together and allow you to snatch the advantage from the chaos or misfortune which surrounds you.
And the next minute the do the same thing to allow the chaos to takeaway that advantage from you.
Such is life, and it is the fate of humans that we adjust to it and maximises the advantages, when we have them and are allowed to do so.
While we endeavour to mitigate the negative impacts of our disadvantages.
Oh, by the way, Lewis and Vettel, do try not to escalate your estrangement. Discuss what happened between the two of of you, and settle it and move on.
The longer you take to do so, the worse it will be for both of you, Remember sometimes timing is everything.
Try resolve it before you both find yourselves on the Podium and have to behave in a manner which removes all the fun from the event, for both of you and the audience.
Be progressive; not regressive. Promote happiness and not unhappiness.
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