- Doctor Strange and all other sorcerers, Loki, Friga, Odin and other asgardian magic users, Dormammu, Ego and other godly beings. Anyone who can use hax or magic can beat Shaw because he can just absorb energy, nothing more.
Making a lightning start from third, the Finn beat both Ferraris on the long run down to Turn 1 and would turn in a tremendous drive to win -- holding off Vettel after a late mistake brought the German back into contention late on. Hamilton finished a frustrating race languishing in fourth, which would be a sign of things to come for the Englishman in two races' time.
Mercedes' erratic W08 was exposed once again in Monaco. The car Toto Wolff would go on to label a "diva" was out of sorts throughout the Monte Carlo weekend -- the Ferrari, by contrast, was not. Once again it seemed to be Hamilton who struggled with the narrow set-up window of his car and he became a shock casualty of Q2, before Kimi Raikkonen and Vettel beat Bottas to the front row of the grid. It was Raikkonen's first pole position since the 2008 French Grand Prix.
With Hamilton taking a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change, Vettel was handed a fantastic opportunity to extend his lead in the championship in Austria. Bottas beat Vettel to pole and made the perfect getaway to charge into an early lead. A drab affair sparked into life in the closing stages as Bottas came under threat from Vettel. The championship leader was within DRS range for the final two laps, but Bottas resisted Vettel's pressure to cross the line just 0.658s ahead.
Hamilton continued his strong form at the Circuit of the Americas with pole position, but was beaten into Turn 1 by Vettel. Hamilton quickly caught and passed his main rival for the lead of the race, moving himself to the brink of the championship by gaining another seven points on the Ferrari man.