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Nice to see a fair, balanced, reasoned comment. Such comments are in short supply today.

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It was the fourth time this century that the driver who set the fastest time in qualifying at Monaco didn’t start from the front of the grid. Interestingly, there was a different reason each time:

Monaco 2001: […]

@f1frog How bad would a race have to be for you to rate it less than 5?

@thegianthogweed You conveniently overlook the reason why he was behind Hulkenberg in the first place. Thanks to his bad luck on Saturday, he had to try ambitious overtaking moves or he would have finished outside […]

@f1osaurus Even if they didn’t add a new race to replace Turkey, they’d still have a record number of races on the calendar!

Before this season, the record number of races was 21. Even without a Turkey […]

@armchairexpert Chill out, mate. If you think Mazepin’s performances so far this year show he merits a place in F1 then that’s an interesting perspective. But if you truly think that the British F1 media are […]

Hear hear. I don’t know why they choose to make it needlessly complicated and confusing.

@coldfly They do, but I assume they are worried their ratings will drop if they are broadcasting qualifying at the same time as the funeral.

Sorry, that should say eight previous poles and six previous failures to convert pole to a win, since he did win the first race in 2015.

Hamilton won the opening race of the season for only the third time in his career, the previous two being 2008 and 2015.

Despite having only two previous wins in the opening race, he had nine previous poles, […]

@red-andy @f1frog What’s really incredible is that only one driver made their debut in this year’s season opener (Latifi). That wasn’t the case in 2001, when Raikkonen, Alonso, Montoya and Bernoldi all debuted in […]

@bilarxos Russell would have started behind Latifi anyway due to his power unit penalty, but I believe these qualifying statistics are based on qualifying time, not starting position. Without checking I suspect […]

Disagree, Barrichello outpaced Schumacher more often than Massa did.

@geemac You could actually make a strong case for Stewart himself in 1973 fitting the bill of WDC without the best car. His Tyrrell was not as quick as the Lotus 72.

Agree on the general futility of trying to […]

Every driver knows when they start the first attempt of Q3 that it might be their only attempt of the session. Yellow/red flags preventing drivers from improving is not that unusual: it happened earlier this year […]

@muralibhats Bottas had a chance of claiming pole position. He robbed himself of it by being slower than Hamilton on their first runs.

The Nurburgring has previously held races in late Sept/early Oct in 1995, 1997, 1998 and 1999. Two of those four were all-time classic races, thanks to the weather.

When was the last time the F1 season started in Europe?

I saw him lose a title he had in the bag 2007
He made one mistake of consequence in the penultimate race, born from inexperience and driving on ruined tyres on a damp track. But his car was no better than the […]