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I would love to see Ferrari on pole for a change, but I think gearbox penalty would be justice. It’s ridiculous that a driver can secure pole position by crashing out.

Simple rules: When a driver goes over track limits with all four wheels:
– Lap time deleted.
– No overtaking within (for instance) two corners, if the driver was trying to overtake someone.
– Position has to be […]

Quite funny to read comments about “dominant” Mercedes. Verstappen clearly had the pace to take pole position, but made a mistake. Had he started on pole, he wouldn’t have been stuck behind Bottas in the race. It […]

Max would’ve probably been on pole without the mistake on his first run.

Mercedes has won both championships for seven years in a row. I’m quite sure they achieved that by making long term decision and not knee-jerk decisions based on one race.

@bascb
I’m not sure how having more seats in Formula One would solve the problem that teams like Racing Point choose Stroll over Perez.

I think there are only two solutions that would solve the problem:
– Ban […]

I’m not disagreeing with the decision, but I think it’s weird to argue that because the mistake impacted car 77, then car 63 shouldn’t be disqualified.

I think the rule should be that a driver doesn’t get a […]

Russell was behind Bottas but with fresh mediums where as Bottas had hards with which he had already drove 20 laps or so. Bottas had a 30 second pit stop but they didn’t even change his tyres after all.

I’m not […]

Bottas suffered from the pit stop mistake more than Russell did. Russell pitted twice, but Bottas’ pit stop was 30 seconds long AND they gave him the same tyres he had before pitting.

It was the puncture that […]

Great race from Russell, horrible race from Mercedes.

Bottas was closing on Russell before the last SC with fresher tyres, so I believe we would have had an exciting fight for victory without that SC.

Fun Fact: Finland is celebrating its Independence Day (December 6th) today. So in that sense, Bottas’ victory would be historical – at least to Finns :)

Do you realise how rare achievements Grand Chelems are? Hamilton hasn’t achieved a Grand Chelem this year and he has “only” six Grand Chelems in total, even though he is the most succesful Formula One driver. And […]

@jerejj
I agree that Bottas’ starts haven’t been that great on average, but that is possibly mostly due to his starting positions. He has started 9 races out of 15 from the dirty side of the track.

I don’t […]

He seems to have a smaller gap to his teammate than most other drivers. For a young driver in an unfamiliar car that doesn’t seem bad at all.
Russell’s gap to Bottas was bigger than Fittipaldi’s and Aitken’s g […]

@petebaldwin
This was practice, it’s where the drivers are supposed to test limits and make mistakes (as long as they don’t crash out), so that they won’t make them in qualifying and race.

Looking at some of the comments here: Are people posting based on best lap times only and not watching FP2? I mean, that’s what I normally do. But since Russell driving for Mercedes was so exciting, I watched the […]

He needs to drive off into the distance right from lap 1.

That isn’t necessarily the best strategy with the current tyres. Winning the race is the goal, doesn’t matter what the gap is.

As a Bottas fan I’m glad about this. Hamilton has clearly performed better than Bottas, but I’m assuming that is because Hamilton is the best driver at the moment and he has mastered the current tyres. I don’t […]

The most horrific crash I have seen while watching Formula One since 1997. Incredibly lucky that he stayed conscious and could climb out of the car and escape the fire.

Usually drivers are complaining about other drivers or their car after the race. But Mercedes is so superior that their drivers can’t do either. Bottas is complaining about massive bees and Hamilton about mysterious “them”.