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And hire the world’s best driver to drive it.

That’s complete speculation. It could well be that Hamilton in a Red Bull would have even won more races than in a Mercedes. And it’s always about the car. Do you really think Max in an Alpine or an Aston would […]

Lewis is trying to do something never done before – 8 WDCs. It will be fantastic to watch this happen. Many drivers get a first championship, but 8, that’s a record we may never see again.

Of course he’s not a steward, they at least understand motor racing. Masi’s job involves managing the logistics of each race, parc fermé inspections before races, enforcing FIA rules, controlling the start […]

Thank you. I found Rencken’s fawning article about Masi (https://www.racefans.net/2021/09/15/exclusive-michael-masi-on-his-first-50-grands-prix-as-formula-1-race-director/). It seems he was chosen when Whiting u […]

After Whiting died in 2019 how did Masi get appointed as the FIA’s F1 race director? Was there a vote? Were there other candidates? He seems less than competent for such an important position.

With the 20:20 vision of hindsight they should have pitted Hamilton as soon as he got within 1.5 seconds of Perez, and avoided any on-track racing with him. Any of the podium positions would have then been possible.

Verstappen fankids think Max is very special.

Who does Mazepin think he is? Tsunoda?

Cautious, not cautions. Racefans, isn’t it time to include editing ability?

Lewis was extremely cautions around Tsunoda. He didn’t want an amateur on Red Bull’s payroll crashing into him. And the same with Perez who had far less to lose than Hamilton.

Opportunity cost is a useful planning device; what we’re discussing here is outcome. For the final time, Lewis mathematically had a 1 point net loss over 2 races. Opportunity cost is nice for ‘what ifs’. If pigs […]

Redbull got lucky that DRS wasn’t enabled or Lewis would have finished 3 or 4 places higher.

There is no dignity or sportsmanship in foolishness. Old Samurai saying.

The major flaw in your thinking assumes a points position had they not changed engines. But they did change engines and the net loss to Hamilton was 1 point over the two races. Reality remains reality.

Not stress, frustration with the team’s decision because he would have preferred to stay on the old inters and try to defend 3rd or 4th rather than settle for a safe 5th.

And I was just starting to like him….

As Toto said, in Russia Max lost 7 points to Lewis due to his engine change while in Turkey Lewis lost 8 points to Max. No big deal.

Bottas knows that this is likely his last opportunity for a win in his career. He will fight like hell for it. No way will he let Max easily pass him.

Bottas will be on the front row. Next to who is the question.