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BMW Andretti’s Alexander Sims led the field away from pole position, pursued by the Mercedes of Vandoorne and Paul di Resta

@hazelsouthwell Nyck de Vries I guess?

I covered it under a double yellow flag originally […] And obviously, as soon as I have to use a crane it’s a straight Safety Car.”

This might not be important but the wording sounds a bit arrogant to me – f […]

It is obviously easier to show understanding for your team’s questionable decisions when you already have won the championship. That said, I agree with Hamilton – it simply felt like Verstappen was invincible this […]

“When you’ve got a team that comes down and says ‘we made a mistake’ it becomes a very simple investigation from the other side.”

Well, Hamilton already said he ‘made a mistake’ before the podium ceremony […]

Binotto has a very tough challenge on his hands. Ferrari have two drivers that are both extremely quick but both make errors from time to time. It is impossible to declare either of them the number one at the […]

While Gasly is only five points ahead of a McLaren (Sainz), Verstappen is just seven points behind a Mercedes (Bottas). Gasly is the only driver from the ‘top three’ teams not to have completed a single lap ins […]

As a Mercedes fan, I want them to keep Bottas. He is strong, reliable and it would be hard to find a better team player among the current F1 drivers. At the same time, it has become pretty clear that he will never […]

Great analysis, as always. Post-race reactions were mainly emotional – ‘it was such a nice battle, why did the stewards have to spoil it’, ‘why don’t they just let them race’, etc. Unsurprisingly, Vettel/Ferrari […]

Vettel would obviously react differently if he was comfortably leading the world championship and the stewards had penalized Hamilton or Verstappen. But I doubt if it is possible to “discourage future drivers from […]

As always, F1 ‘stops being fun’ when bad things happen to you, not the other drivers – I think that yesterday’s decision was pretty consistent with stewarding over the last years. Also, this time the penalty […]

I am going to vote for Max Verstappen. Once again he was dominant over his team mate (even despite tough luck on Saturday) and got as many points as one could realistically expect from a Red Bull-Honda driver. […]

That is an excuse you would expect from a bad student, not a top F1 team principal. That said, it sounds credible, given how bad Ferrari are at race management these days.

Well, this should have been the 1000th race in F1 history.

Does it matter much though? I believe it is more important that Dutch F1 fans get a home Grand Prix. You could already see thousands of them at Spa or Hockenheim every year before the whole Verstappen hype […]

We cannot really know how strong Mercedes W09 has been compared to Ferrari SF71H. I am pretty sure Hamilton believes he could drive that Ferrari faster and Vettel probably also thinks he would have scored more […]

Seriously? Hamilton is now criticised for simply stating a fact? For sure, you can argue that the race is good for the country’s economy and that ‘traditional venues’ were once not traditional at all. Those would […]

@nickwyatt Very good questions but I tend to believe that Verstappen is extremely self-righteous and also a pure racer. That is an awesome and somewhat frightening combination. He either does not believe that he […]

@phylyp Agreed, F1 would be pretty boring without some controversy now and then and cases like this also certainly deserve thorough analysis.

By the way, conspiracy theories can be true so I would never dismiss […]

Fair analysis. I think that only hardcore Verstappen fans seriously believe the ‘Oconspiracy’ theory. (Dr. Marko is simply being dr. Marko.) Maybe Ocon is now a bit desperate to prove he belongs to F1 grid and […]