Below Red Bull standards is being very, very nice. The ‘laps ahead’ stat, which is usually the best basic statistic to measure true teammate performance throughout a season, is just bonkers. I’ve never seen this before.

The excuses as to why he might not do well are already beginning before he’s announced.

Vettel, Ricciardo, Verstappen. Helmut’s been doing just fine. He’s not there to support mediocre (by F1's insane standards) drivers, so when he gets the sense that they’re anything but top tier, he’ll drop them like a brick. Harsh, sure. But they know what they’re getting into.

Tsunoda has a much higher ceiling than Albon. That’s not even an argument. So why delay his entry at Alpha Tauri in favor of a driver they already know isn’t good enough?

He won’t be close enough.

Name the good/great driver that couldn’t cut it. Never happened. If you’re good enough, you’ll make it.

In which universe is Albon better than Gasly? Albon was basically even with Kvyat last season, while Gasly immediately started pounding him after the switch.

It’s not the Red Bull environment. It’s the realization that some drivers are just better than others. Which is fine. Red Bull just aren’t looking for mediocrity.

He did nothing wrong in China 2016. Vettel had only Raikkonen and himself to blame, Kvyat was barely involved.

Haas needs the Mazepin money to survive. They don’t give a shit about anything else.

Correct, I’d say potentially criminal behaviour is a fairly easy line to draw.

Well, he did get a one race suspension. It’s a laughable reprecussion for assaulting a fellow driver not once, but twice, but it’s not zero.

Haas doesn’t need sponsor money. They need survival money. So Mazepin is the better option.

It might be because there’s no mention of the girl in question issueing a statement yesterday that people need to chill out and that they were just friends having fun.

Don’t forget about Rich Energy. Never forget about Rich Energy.

Love the push-pull shifters. Massively underrated feature for idiots like me who always forget to drink during endurance simracing pitstops.

The Brawn BGP001 might not even have been the best car of its season. It certainly wasn’t for the second half of 2009.

Of this generation, the W07 is the most dominant Mercedes we’ve seen. Far more dominant than the W11.

He kind of is special, in the way that he’s sort of a midfield beast. He’s incredible at certain things, highly intelligent and mentally tough. He also always manages to peak in the 1 or 2 ‘crazy’ races every single season (sort of like Fisichella used to), racking up massive point hauls for his teams that often really…