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The only justification he needed was to say the red flag was thrown on safety grounds due to tyre concerns and the debris spread across the fastest part of the track. He can say the race was then restarted […]

@carbon-fibre both safety cars were ridiculous the amount of time it took to call the safety car, if nothing else they have a VSC they can implement immediately and then decide if they throw the full safety car […]

Pirelli will blame debris as usual and of course nobody else will now get to view the evidence to prove any different. You can’t have the same people as poacher and gamekeeper. We’ll of course have to take […]

@balue There has been numerous instances of issues with tracks not found until after cars have been around the track so there is absolutely improvements that could be made to the track checks and maintenance. I […]

@balue why not make qualifying actually mean you have to actually qualify again. See how many teams put up with drivers binning their cars in qualifying then.

What is now, 4 qualifying sessions ruined by poor driving. Something needs to change.

Maybe its time that if you crash and retire then you don’t qualify full stop.

Driving for a team that’s spent 7 years whining to slow down Mercedes this seems a bit rich.

@roger-ayles I agree there is no obvious perfect solution. The key issues for me is the proposal made doesn’t fix the issue that one driver can cause others to lose out on laps and penalizing the driver that made […]

I think its something that needs reviewing at some point as it’s not fair when drivers get knocked out because they didn’t get a clean lap due to others being to blame but how you manage that fairly is the issue. […]

I think the extenuating circumstances of the red flag in Hamilton excused him from the strugglers list and he was hardly to blame for his teams call on strategy to undercut (Red Bull excelled on Perez’s strategy […]

@john-h that’s not really true though is it as Bottas fell away from Verstappen to be 5 seconds back at the pit stops. His tyres clearly just fell away while others around him didn’t.

As Hamilton didn’t get […]

He also lapped him and qualified ahead of at least 2 faster cars. Sainz also was great and while he didn’t out qualify his teammate he may have been robbed a chance at pole. Finally Vettel did a really solid job […]

I chose Norris as he looked like he was in a different league to Ricciardo who is a respected performer around Monaco usually. He also lapped

If I was Bottas I’d be sending one from a long way back on Verstappen, nothing to lose for him. Same with Leclerc, just close the door and Verstappen would have to back off. Id say those 2 were favourites for me […]

This isn’t some new innovation, they’re literally just using the same illegal wing designs that have been banned previously by just designing them to pass the current tests. This is not a grey area, the technical […]

That’s a great line up locked in, smart move by McLaren with Norris stock rising at the moment.

Amazing how “lucky” one guy can be.

Thanks for highlighting that is indeed all I meant was they would be too old to claim that honour now. I can’t see that being under threat again for a while. It wasn’t a dig at either Leclerc or Verstappen.

I’m not a Schumacher fan but his key skill was his ability to drive at the limit for so long without mistakes. He simply brought a new level of race pace to the table.