Kyle

“Okay Lando just to confirm, we have to be able to stay on-track here. Are you happy to stay out on this tyre?”

This message to Lando during the final driveable slick lap confirms that this was not a gamble […]

It ought to be Zhou or Piastri. I selected Zhou of the two but to be frank this is no more than a personal preference.

“Next stop is the Parabolica – now formally renamed after Alexander Albon –”

Not sure if mistake or sarcasm?

Otherwise an enjoyable read!

The time deltas you’ve used on the grid are incorrect… they map to the finishing positions of the Sprint, but overlook the fact that Bottas has been booted to the back. Gasly is listed as finishing one second […]

Per that video. He passes a marker board showing no signal at around 0:10. The next marker board becomes visible over the crest of the circuit at around 0:13 and looks to already be showing red. At this point it […]

The answer certainly is a surprise

It’s “no-one”, as per the official race classification below

And no, the answer is not Mazepin, you can’t set the fastest lap on lap 2 of a 1 lap race.

(Sorry I […]

The acid test… is it any good for racing?

In general I’m very much against awarding points for qualifying. The reward of being high up the grid for the race, when the points should be awarded, is more than sufficient.

But, to avoid what we saw on […]

There are several problems to be resolved in tandem here.
1) How to ensure a “race” is not considered a race without any green flag running
2) What the minimum standard of green flag running should be for half, […]

It’s not illegal to stop on the slow-down lap post-race for the purposes of preserving a one litre fuel sample (although it is illegal in qualifying).

Aston Martin’s mistake appears to have been not instructing […]

You are right, this has the makings of a bombshell but could be much ado about nothing without the letter being released. Until we know we can only scratch our heads.

This is the most interesting part of the whole statement so it’s interesting to note how it’s been roundly ignored…

Usually a driver earning the Grand Slam deservedly wins DOTW, and Max did no wrong, but Lando was somehow even better. Started and should have finished 2nd on merit, the penalty he received coming about only […]

They are two names for the same thing.

(Pole, win, fastest lap w/o leading every lap is a known as a hat-trick or treble.)

Absolutely. Beating 8 cars over a race distance fully on merit in a Williams is the standout performance. In most races, beating 8 rival finishers gets you a point or more and it’s only misfortune (and the absence […]

For someone who I can say pretty much maximised the result on *both* Saturday and Sunday, I picked Gasly. Perhaps you could argue he might have held off Vettel, but he was at a tyre disadvantage in that fight. […]

I believe it was 45, but usually they round the tolerance up when it’s not a whole number. 10% of a 51 lap race = 5.1 laps, rounds to 6 laps’ tolerance, so 45 gets classified.

@rpneto hahahaha brilliant!

[/tinfoil hat]

Schumacher = too obvious
Leclerc = too much collateral suffered making it convincing
Rosberg = just right