It’s not that black and white though. Your acting as if this is something teams do by choice, when the reality is that it’s more often about survival. Sauber had paydrivers in the past because they needed to. There are reasons why teams go this route, and more often than not the damage was done long before the…

Haas is the only team that hasn’t brought anything that would be considered as a significant upgrade to their 2021 car. They seem to be the only ones who haven’t used either of their tokens to develop. They’ve also already confirmed they are not going to spend much time on this year’s car.

Lunch.

Red Bull Junior program is actually fine. Tsunoda just arrived, Lawson could be there in 2022 and they have a bit of talent in lower classes. It’s a lot better than Mercedes’ program, that’s for sure. Merc’s hesitance to promote guys like Ocon and Russell when opportunities were there to do so has done them no favors…

Hamilton went outside of track limits in turn 4 an estimated 29 times in about 40 laps (about 5 of which were safetycar/yellow flag laps). Lewis did nothing wrong though, he was told by to do it by his team as it was their interpretation of the wildly contradicting directive from race control. Red Bull has a different…

No. Check the onboard. Max easily makes the move stick but has a slight oversteer moment on exit which forces him out wide.

I think that passing on the pit straight with DRS was probably deemed too risky. You’re really just opening up an opportunity for the guy behind to re-overtake you in the DRS zone for T4. It had to be that corner. Verstappen actually made the move stick but had a little oversteer moment going on throttle (when Lewis…

While qualy was a pleasant surprise, they finished 6th and 8th, which would’ve likely been 7th and 10th if both Alpha Tauri’s didn’t run into trouble. Not really anything to get too excited about, although Sainz was better than I expected for most of the weekend.

I think Leclerc is a fantastic driver, certainly right behind Verstappen in my completely made up young-driver-ranking. My only little issue with him is that he’s one of those people who talk too much, which annoys me. Seriously dude, please answer this question in 20 words or less, haven’t got all day. But other than…

Actually, almost nobody else was abusing track limits there. I don’t fault Mercedes or anything, they just decided to profit from race control’s insane phrasing of the turn 4 for this GP. But they were the only ones who were consistently doing it.

He did it 29 times. So basically every lap until Mercedes started warning him as a result of Red Bull’s radio message to Max. The issue isn’t who won or didn’t win, and it has little to do with cheating.

Yeah, his first one was nearly .1s quicker and his second one over .2s quicker.

What do mean ‘none of the new breed have much to offer’? Leclerc, Russell, Norris and Tsunoda are legit talents, certainly well beyond what Mick has to offer in that regard.

Yeah, it’s totally Red Bull’s fault that Checo messed up Q2.

You make one little mistake and they’ll never let you hear the end of it.

I would’ve gone with Fast Food, but sure.

1) What a crazy coincidence.
2) Though I was born well after his death, Clark is definitely a favorite of mine. The way people from his generation talk about him just shows he was something special. It’s amazing how he often gets overlooked in the ‘best F1 driver’ conversation, probably because he ‘only’ won 2 titles…

That list is from last year. I still question if it’s actually accurate, but that’s why Miller is low.

I assume it will be Bradl.

I have similar mixed feelings about Senna, but apart from some of his on track antics it’s more to do with the whole ‘greatest’ versus ‘best’ debate which occasionelly pops up.