How about giving Norris a mention, blatantly going off-track to overtake Perez? In the same corner where Verstappen had his best Q3 time taken away. That had a significantly larger impact on the race, Checo could’ve easily played a part in the strategic battle between Mercedes and Red Bull, by trying to undercut…

They do, and he qualified.

Verstappen passed Bottas there too, so that makes two. The race was fine, not a great one but certainly not a snoozefest.

I don’t think any serious critic has said that.

Yes, because Red Bull and Minardi are totally comparable. Talk about ludicrous.

I’m talking about 2018, where Perez finished behind Ocon 9 out of 14 times.

So Perez should’ve walked away a few years ago?

That has always been way overblown. He signed on to Renault as a junior and debuted just as they were making the leap. He signed for McLaren a month after winning his first world title with Renault, and made the move a year later at which point McLaren jumped to full-blown title contender while Renault tailed off.…

Out of the 7 candidates who have a legitimate claim at the ‘GOAT’ title, Hamilton is 4th in pole position %, 5th in race win % per races finished, and 6th in podium % per races finished.

I tried but she won’t answer my calls.

When he signed for McLaren, it was already known that situation was going to be bad for a while. He opted for McLaren because there wasn’t a single alternative available.

Zhou is, at best, a fringe F1 prospect. He could be an option for a team like Haas, but you’d hope that a works team would have higher ambitions.

So I’m guessing you really, really care about who qualifies 16th?

You just basically described attack mode.

I think most race fans are taking it seriously as a concept, since it has loads of potential. But the execution at this time makes for a weird product, basically for all the reasons you said you enjoyed the race. Cars are slow, tracks are bland and narrow (making for extremely clumsy racing), there’s some weird…

Why would Dutch fans vote on a Belgian driver? Especially when his teammate is, you know... Dutch?

He’s talking about Max Chilton and Sebastián Saavedra.

That is not even remotely true.

I totally agree with that.

Late to the party, but agreed on the Justified pilot. Although I also particularly enjoyed the Banshee pilot. That show was basically Justified-on-crack.