He goes off, damaging his car (probably race-ending), checks both mirrors, allows Hill to take the inside, then sharply turns into him at the last second... Unlike Jerez he actually had time to think about this one.

The ‘94 one was very much deliberate as well.

Race bans are a result of an accumulation of penalty points these days. We haven’t had one under this new format.

Dumb quote. Not at all true.

*high* speed

Well, his off at Imola and brainfart at Baku suggest otherwise.

No, but also, yes. Ideally, you’d like to penalize without taking into account who it is you’re penalizing. So a 10-second time penalty would perhaps be appropriate. However, a 10-second penalty for a Mercedes has a completely different effect on their race as a similar penalty for, say, an Alpine or Alfa. You already…

As in: he was lying through his teeth when he said this?

Not the same thing. Schumacher’s crash was with intent, whereas this one was just stupidity.

He didn’t necessarily have to back out. The issue is that he tried to maintain too much speed through the turn which caused a loss of front grip, sliding into the lane that Verstappen was occupying.

We could also litter the track with land mines. Would surely give more action as well.

Sauber’s drivers have really hurt the team in recent years. But, surely they’ll have Pourchaire coming in within the next two years. He’s the next big thing, and amazingly, he’s a Sauber junior driver. Can imagine that might be factor for Alfa extending their deal.

Well... it’s Gene’s plan, and it’s Steiner’s job to execute it. He knew what he was getting into, so we don’t have to feel too sorry for him, but he’s always been a valued asset to other teams in the past.

Giovinazzi has always been like that. Even throughout his junior career. Pretty exciting driver, but he only really started getting results as he started going up against drivers a few years younger than him, because everyone else got promoted and he didn’t. He’s still somehow seen by many as a young talent even…

Steiner has been put in an impossible position. He’s being asked to run a team on a McDonald’s budget with an owner who’s expecting Michelin-star level results. The entire business model of Haas, which is wildly different from every other F1 team, has been proven a failure. You can’t outsource most of your car…

If only Giovinazzi didn’t make so many mistakes... the qualy gap between the two has been one of the largest in F1 this season, with Gio outqualifying Kimi by an average of 0.35s. Kimi has been on the decline for almost a decade now, but it really looks like he’s edging to the cliff of his career now.

Ferrari also has Shwartzman, who’s probably still ahead of Ilott in the pecking order. Ilott is a decent driver, but F1 seems like a longshot for him at this time. Schumacher’s ceiling is probably to be a solid midfield driver. He’s solid, but nothing really special. Mazepin has made him look really good this season.

Fine, that’s fair. But this only confirms that this is a societal issue, not a motorsports one, making the accusations of institutional racism completely unfair.

There were 5 British drivers in F1 last year, 3 of whom would qualify as ‘non-white’.

The majority of those are of Indian or Pakistani descent, with the Indian side in particular being represented very well in British motorsports.