Red Andy

I think they use an F4-spec car as well, @eurobrun, which probably doesn’t help their argument.

However it sounds like the FIA are preventing the use of the F3 name at all, which is a shame. Many of the […]

Frenchman Ocon won the race because Lewis Hamilton didn’t pit when he should have. The last Frenchman to win a Grand Prix, Pierre Gasly, won because Hamilton pitted when he shouldn’t have.

@broke1984 Hamilton was last at the restart thanks to his own error, not luck.

A shame for Vettel after a great drive, but not unexpected after it was reported he only had 300ml of fuel left in the car.

@timeslides I don’t think Horner is suggesting that the actions of the Mercedes drivers were deliberate (although Silverstone is at least arguable) – but it is undeniable that Red Bull have suffered more from some […]

Indeed @bulgarian, if a car does not comply with the technical regulations then the only available penalty is exclusion from the session. Would be a shame for Vettel but those are the rules.

If Vettel is DQ’d (as he should be if he has broken the technical regs) then Hamilton will only gain an extra two points over Verstappen, so hardly on a par with the Imola or Silverstone red flags in terms of the impact.

Vettel “forgot” to take off his LGBTQ+-friendly t-shirt for the national anthem of a country that has recently been pursuing LGBTQ+-unfriendly policies.

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

@d0senbrot Presumably it breaks the record for the fewest cars to take a standing start, from the US GP of 2005.

I wonder what race control would have done if every car had pitted, though. Would they have sent […]

Whenever I attend a live motorsports event I always take a moment to thank one of the guys or girls in orange on my way to the exit. Sometimes gets me nothing more than a funny look, but events like yesterday’s at […]

Hmmm. Horner doesn’t actually say that he doesn’t believe Hamilton’s actions were deliberate, only that they didn’t put that in their letter to the FIA. Probably they were wise not to do so, as such a claim would […]

@rocketpanda I must admit I was surprised when people started talking him up in the off-season. I saw him in F2 and thought he was solid but unspectacular, in what was a relatively weak field.

I agree that he […]

The point is @mysticus, if Red Bull genuinely believe Hamilton to be a danger to his competitors then they have a duty to see that raised at the highest level. It would be slightly strange to just give up when the […]

@roadrunner Playing the numbers though, if both were out of the race Verstappen would maintain his 33-point lead over Hamilton. But if Verstappen successfully defended and went on to win, that lead stretches to 40 […]

If you think that using legitimate routes of protest is somehow uglier than putting your opponent into the wall at one of the fastest corners of the calendar, then I think you have your priorities wrong @AMG44

I think the stewards ruling the appeal inadmissible, due to a very restrictive interpretation of the “new evidence” requirements, is a convenient (for them) way of closing the matter without having to grapple with […]

Hamilton tarnished his own good name by punting Verstappen.

Well, he made up considerable ground in the championship @rocketpanda, so from that perspective it worked out extremely well for him.

Which ones?

AlphaTauri are unlikely to seriously compete with the senior team. Aston Martin’s potential is best summed up with the old saying, “You’re only as good as your last Mercedes.” Ditto Williams, with […]

@robbie As one outcome from a review (even a Mercedes-initated one) could be an increase in the number of penalty points given to Hamilton, they may have decided it’s not worth the risk, especially as he has […]