Red Andy

I can see the scenario unfolding before me. A crazy race, Sakhir 2020-style, where the genuine frontrunners either bundle themselves out on the first lap or sacrifice their positions through a series of barely […]

Bottas is nicely placed for some more bowling as well @davidhunter13. So anything could happen, especially on the first lap.

This year’s title battle feels a lot more good-natured for a variety of reasons, but I think a big contributing factor is that the most toxic element of the online fandom is not involved.

It was a daft lunge from Russell after a similarly daft move on the same car in Austria. His wheel-to-wheel racing obviously needs a bit of work, regardless of how good is he otherwise.

Even if he was entitled […]

Zhou has been solid this year, probably better than I expected given his feeder series record – generally speaking, if you’re in your third year of F2 and don’t win the title at a canter, you probably don’t […]

Interesting choice by Mercedes, given the widespread briefing that this will be their most competitive weekend so far. You would have thought they’d want their full-time drivers in the car as much as possible, to […]

None of them.

Penalty points were never intended to be just for dangerous driving @sjaakfoo. They are supposed to punish repeated rule violations which individually may not merit a severe sanction, but taken together indicate a […]

From memory, I think the issue was that they weren’t entirely clear what lap Fisichella was on at the time the red flag was shown, particularly as he had gone into the pits once the Safety Car was deployed for […]

@todfod It’s nowhere close to the “biggest officiating goof-up in F1 history.” That’s just recency bias and Mercedes troll factory-fuelled hysteria. It wasn’t even the worst blunder of the 2021 season – the […]

Oh good, a Jenson Button scenario. We haven’t had one of those for ages.

And again in 2009, @esploratore1. Both at the Hungaroring. The 2009 one was actually worse as the team didn’t tell him what was happening and tried to get him to recover the car back to the pits. They got a […]

Weird how this line about Russell being “up on the apex kerb” has taken off so quickly, like a Russian disinformation campaign.

Anyone who has actually seen the onboards and is capable of constructing their own […]

@ivan-vinitskyy That’s how you drive if no one else is there, or if the car you’re battling doesn’t have any part of their car in front. But when the car is ahead of you (as Perez was) then you need to hold your […]

A good advertisement for the effectiveness of the new regulations. Before this year, no team would have opted for a strategy that required their driver to overtake the leader three times in order to win the race.

An egregious breach of the rules if there ever was one. A drive-through penalty for each is surely appropriate, which converts to a 20s addition to their overall race time. :)

No, I don’t agree @venedikov. Russell was on the curb to begin with, but he should have held his line and followed the radius of the corner. Instead he wandered out wide, with the inevitable result. Penalty was […]

Interesting penalty, and probably the right one, but there is an obvious inconsistency with situations where a driver impedes another earlier in qualifying but then gets through to the next session. They’ll get a […]

I agree @ahoracio. Silly to suggest Hamilton is still “learning” after such a long time in the sport. He knew exactly how to hit an apex last year, he just chose not to.

Copse will always be Turn 1 in my head too.