Neil

Went strongly disagree, but I’d have voted the same way if you’d asked me about Ocon in an Alpine, Perez in a Racing Point, Gasly in an Alpha Tauri and Ricciardo in a McLaren.

It won’t happen ‘on merit’, but […]

I like to think Spa will find its way into (or back into) the calendar, because it always does. It’s been a long, long time (early 2000s?) since I’ve thought of the Belgian GP as ‘safe’ and a definite long-term […]

The only certainty a journalist has when doing driver rankings is that they’ll be wrong.

I do find the system a little odd, and rarely agree (I wouldn’t be an F1 fan if I agreed with driver rating articles), […]

Hope so, three teams going for wins would be great. I can’t see them going into a race weekend as favourites in 2022, but there could be a couple of tracks that suit them enough to give them a real shot against […]

It probably benefits both parties.

Alpine maybe might have wanted Alonso for 2023, as he’s still their best driver… but his age is an unavoidable issue. Even if they had kept him for 2023, for 2024 I really […]

The greatest probability is that he had a choice of not winning at Alpine, or not winning at Aston Martin. So he went with the one who’ll pay him the most to not win.

Makes perfect sense for a (hate to say it, […]

Seems a bit silly to award more penalty points for accidentally driving on the wrong side of a white line a few times, and potentially gaining 0.05 seconds, than for irresponsible driving in the pit lane.

Suppose title fights are more fun when the other team helps you out so much… almost approaching thank you card territory.

I much prefer a title race without the pathetic off-track (and on-track) behaviour we […]

It’ll be a very sad day when he goes, but I think he’ll only stay while he remains one of the very small elite at the top. Once he dips far enough from his peak, he’ll know it and won’t stick around to be […]

Don’t think Perez should have given up the place. Putting your car alongside is all well and good, but if the defending driver has to take evasive action to avoid contact, or if he’s not left enough space to make […]

To stay out would have been risk in terms of safety and reliability in terms of tyre life.

It makes sense with that sentence. And if they admit taking the FLAP point off Verstappen was a factor […]

Job done.

No matter what the sporting event, I can’t stand them. They don’t add anything positive to the atmosphere of the event, nor do they indicate any special level of commitment on the part of the ‘tribe’ that brings […]

Tribalism and ‘passion’ for individual drivers is an influence, but it’s mostly just down to attracting the wrong kind of people.

The fans in Austria have nothing on Ferrari fans at Imola or Monza during […]

Not really sure with Russell and Perez. I think probably that was a racing incident – Perez pinched Russell very tight and onto the kerb, and Russell clearly tried to keep the unnaturally tight line but slipped […]

Really don’t think it’s a great deal to do with Netflix, Liberty, or anything else. Maybe a little bit polarisation and general online toxicity as soon as the names of certain drivers are mentioned, but only a […]

Silly request, and pointless. If there was one racing lap to go, dropping 10 car lengths at the restart would probably have protected Leclerc, but with so many left Sainz – or whoever Sainz lost a position to by […]

Whilst I am very relieved that Zhou has not suffered any serious injury, the thing that I took away from this crash was the fact that the car managed to leapfrog the tyre barrier and go into the wire fence. This […]

A rare 10. Didn’t like the way everything turned out (the opening crash, losing Verstappen early, the race for the win being altered by the SC) but overall I loved it, and the quality of the racing and […]

I find names far easier to work with. Not just as a British fan with regards Silverstone, but at any track with corner names.

A name is a name, and I associate it with a certain corner on a certain track. […]