So you’re upset that arguably one of the most talented drivers in the world right now also has a unique personality. The horror of it all really is a bit much sometimes.

I’ve gotta say, masterful drives from so many driver’s this week.

I’ve gotta say that what is most surprising to me is how remarkably calm everyone is. They’re just like: “Alright, well guess this is our stop now.”

Andrew Benson reporting: Rosemary Smith to replace Palmer after the British GP.

Serious question: are these actually a solid buy for your average individual? Even if the prices given the mileage are fair, these cars vet beat up. It seems like they spend half their time idling and the other half at full throttle with not much in between.

If you’re not a works team, you get upgrades whenever the works team is done testing the upgrades and the factory has the capacity to build the engines for you which is obviously after the works cars get theirs. It has been practice the past few years that Mercedes and Renault will give one upgraded engine to one of…

McLaren is a supercar manufacturer but even so they don’t have the resources to develop an F1 engine. Mercedes spent over $500 million over three years between 2010 and 2014 to develop their championship winning engine for 2014. McLaren certainly doesn’t have the money or manpower for that. Plus McLaren has never had…

Could you imagine a McLaren-Ferrari? Hell would freeze over first.

McLaren couldn’t just divorce honda. This is basically going to cost them $200 million. That’s half their budget for a year and they’re losing $100 million a year going forward. The only reasonable thing to do was to give the partnership a couple years. Lest we all forget that last year the power unit took a big step…

You and everyone else.

The expense involved would be enormous. I read that Mercedes spent $500 million over three years to develop their engine for 2014.

I’m pretty sure the date to notify the FIA of a change in engine supplier has passed and a change would now require unanimous approval from the other teams, all of whom have reasons to say no especially the smaller midfield teams who will be leap froged by McLaren as soon as they have a competitive engine.

Seb put the super softs on lap 10 or so when he came in for the wing change and ran to the end.

He finished 7th, behind Seb. He’s definitely not been on this season. Seb had an incredible recovery drive though.

Terrible in what way? I’m not going to lie I didn’t pay particular attention to their pit strategy. James Allen just said they used a peculiar strategy on Kimi’s car and obviously they couldn’t work their strategy on Vettel after the opening lap incident.

They used to be banned but it was impossible to police. Teams would use coded messages to avoid directives such as the infamous: “Fernando is faster than you.” As a result, they’re no longer banned but many of the teams on the grid choose to limit their use.

Alright, maybe this victory wasn’t hard fought. What I should have said is that in general, he seems more humble this season having to fight for the title. I know he’s had to fight Rosberg the past two seasons, but the fight just seems different now that he’s fighting another team.

Thoughts:

A clash I don’t think Mercedes wants.

I’d hardly call them being level on points Fernando being “solidly outperformed” but Fernando has said that he let 2007 get the best of him in interviews. Given Ron Dennis’s reputation, I have no doubt that Fernando was promised #1 status only to have the team favor their young driver once it was apparent that he was…