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@sonnycrockett I think part of the issue is that we only see what the media wants us to see.
I remember reading an article/interview (no idea where as this was quite a few years ago) with the drivers who seemed […]

@jerejj I agree that red bull (well, Verstappen) has a pace advantage over the mclarens, but I think it won’t require too extraordinary circumstances.

Given the Mercedes pace this weekend, if Hamilton couldn’t […]

@f199player no one saw this coming, I foresee many sleepless nights for Toto as he struggles to find someone else capable of jumping into a Mercedes and fighting with the red bulls.

A minor point, but the way I read it, double stacking is only an issue if it impedes another driver. So teams can successfully double stack as long as a car from whichever team they block isn’t coming in too. I […]

I wouldn’t know, but there’s clearly a grey zone.
The fans paid for an event – if the race was cancelled, there would be a legal grey area about whether the tickets should be refunded – here, there is no grey […]

Exactly, Max was the only driver who made any sort of comment about racing, and I’d assume that comment was purely to encourage doing enough laps under the safety car to get half points. He would have known that […]

@fw11b
Aside from the obvious (there may be an event on at that date), Michael Masi is the race director. He doesn’t choose the dates that they race, his job is just to make sure the race happens safely.

The […]

The issue is that with that many caution periods and a pit lane that is closed under caution, it was simply a case of whoever pitted first (without losing a lap) would win the race as they would cycle back up to […]

@ajpennypacker He’s been fairly consistently finishing in the lower teens.

Not bad, considering he’s racing with hand controls after a year out and still regularly beating half the grid.

New engine, old design.

Engine manufacturers are free to develop their engines throughout the year, but with only 3 engines allowed, if they develop a new engine it counts as one of the 3 engines in the “pool” […]

@ppzzus I’d strongly recommend that. There’s no reason why other categories are more likely to crash – if anything, the higher speeds mean an F1 fatality is more likely. Let’s not tempt fate.

Incorrect @Manto, the minimum time is between the two safety car lines rather than a lap time. And there is nothing to suggest Hamilton exceeded that.

Really?
Alonso had a fabulous weekend. Dragging that Alpine into places it doesn’t deserve to even think about being.
Gasly – true, I agree with you, I’m a bit stumped on this one.
Hamilton – no. He got pole, […]

@mg1982 apologies for not making it clearer in my original post. Yes, Verstappen had the right to defend. His defence was robust but fair. But that doesn’t change any of my other points.

@paeschli Note the use of my words. Verstappen could have avoided it. I didn’t say he could avoid it and stay on the road. He had a choice – go wide and off the track, or stay on track and collide. Now, I’m not […]

@paeschli well he said that nobody should be interfering. Including him. Or are there different rules for him – you can go to the stewards to defend yourself? Well isn’t that what Toto was doing?
And unless […]

Alonso is bang on the money. 20 cars driving around on a piece of tarmac at 200+mph, sometimes two of them might inevitably collide. There was no malice involved – the move itself was not inherently dangerous (for […]

Funny how he seems to think it’s wrong yet he was straight up there doing the very thing he claims he shouldn’t be able to do.

In other words, he wanted a harsher penalty, and now he’s getting stroppy…

@john-h a lot of the problem is that the media has picked up on this attitude towards Ticktum and are likely deliberately playing messages that perpetuate this stereotype.

I remember a few years ago Grosjean […]

@njoydesign third of the votes for a driver that was fastest in qualifying and overcame a 10 second penalty to win the race.

It’s all about perspective, unless of course you’re voting purely for “driver of the […]