David BR

@f1-fan You sound upset. Want to talk it through? I can’t remember ever actually responding to anything you wrote, but remind me if I said something to hurt your feelings.

@balue Well, according to me and anyone who knows anything about Formula 1, yes, Hamilton is pretty good in the rain. You picked out Imola as a mistake, rightly, but there have been others. I don’t see how you […]

Nicely put Ian.

@zann Yep, that’s exactly what I’ve thought. That was a marathon+ for him.

Hamilton. Pole on Saturday with a great lap, good start, a team strategy mistake sending him to the back, then relentless effort to finish third. I appreciate Alonso’s brilliant defense (likewise Ocon’s versus […]

The real mistake we made was we should have rolled out of the pit lane on ‘dries’
Exactly. One of the best drivers on a damp track ever, in the lead, it should have been an easy call.

Seeing just the headline, my initial thought (shock) was that he’d been disqualified over the t-shirt.

@f1osaurus Hamilton could have made the call himself of course but apparently he understood that the team thought it was going to rain more soonish… Had he pitted, getting out into the stream of other cars […]

@amg44 Exactly, I know a few people over 70 who had Covid, pre-vaccine, who do little exercise but had virtually no symptoms, another around Lewis’s age who is fit and active and she’s had a list of long-Covid […]

@andyfromsandy No. The brief was to take out both Red Bulls, using Norris as the pin ball against Verstappen, but stay in the race himself. Really, if he can’t do the basics…

@slotopen They added extra time to the red flag precisely so the teams could do those repairs. Hamilton could have made the call himself to pit, but it’s seems it’s down to poor communication between him and the […]

? That’s nonsensical. The decision was clearly the wrong one. What he’s saying is that it was a ‘100% correct’ decision in the hypothetical situation that the information they had was correct. Which it wasn’t. And […]

@wsrgo Weird, no. Understandably enthusiastic, kind of, I guess. Annoying if you’re not a Hamilton/Mercedes fan, very probably… I mean I see where you’re coming from, if he drops all that stuff, fine by me. I […]

now I will never be able to discuss with you as to why Nico may or may not be a bad commentator
Why not?! Like I said, it’s the repeat of the same tone/approach to commentating that annoys me. Nico is […]

@dmwBut they should have called that one on the grid.
+1

@asleepatthewheel Every year, there have to be 1-2 races in which Mercedes messes it up in the most unimaginable way.
Almost always on strategy.

@hahostolze Why the ‘polite’ bit? I said Verstappen started well, maybe better. Hamilton wobbled slightly out of the first corner too. TBH it’s always a combination of luck and driver skill in dealing with wet […]

@wsrgo You don’t need to apologize to me. Your point doesn’t ‘stand’ because that’s not the aspect of his commentating I like, I was actually thinking of the way he speaks, he hasn’t (yet) adopted the same kind of […]

@aapje Well, just to point out that Verstappen was at least able to run in the race with the red flag repairs. And then Hamilton/Mercedes screwed up massively on the restart. I don’t see where the good luck was – […]

Brilliant race for Alpine, Ocon and Alonso both defending brilliantly. Hamilton starting on his own off the grid must be the bizarrest sight I’ve ever seen in Formula 1. All the focus is on the Verstappen damage […]