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I voted Checo and Gasly, forgetting that Checo also escaped a penalty for crossing the pit entry line. Wish I’d only voted Gasly. It was Max not Checo that crossed the pit lane exit and didnt get punished. Checo would have definitely got punished for it. I haven’t seen the footage of Checo doing it...

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The RB drivers won’t be getting the penalties that are black and white per Tsunoda last year: 1. Penalising Perez would hand the win to Sainz, who has yet to win a race. It was his post race podium that set the precedent for not changing a podium after a race, and if they did penalise Perez he would...

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I voted Checo and Gasly, forgetting that Checo also escaped a penalty for crossing the pit entry line. Wish I’d only voted Gasly. This morning I posted that it would be sad if Alonso wasn’t on the grid next year, at the moment I wouldn’t care. I knew he didn’t like Hamilton but had thought that bein...

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At a minimum each driver should be sent out individually for their quali laps at a circuit like Monaco, that way you can’t be left out of place in the way that Gasly et al were through no fault of their own. I found it unacceptable that Tsunoda started ahead of his teammate when he was the one that ...

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Maybe I’d have enjoyed it more with some better race direction. Ferrari’s mess up was only entertaining if you were Red Bull and I was annoyed that Merc didn’t try hards on one of their cars. Maybe it would have made no difference but I was wondering as we watched it become a procession. I suppose M...

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Good to see Norris do well - suffering and recovering from a bout of tonsillitis. As one who had them out in my 20s after suffering with them for years (not fun), I can relate. Can he hold out the rest of the season without needing to have them removed (lots of antibiotics) or maybe have it done in...

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Well if Alpine hadn’t already made the Piastri decision, Alonso just made it for them. Lewis was out of contention realistically, so Alonso had more to lose. It occurred to me that it was around the time of the Russell decision that Bottas was practically opening the door for Max, so that was what ...

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Well if Alpine hadn’t already made the Piastri decision, Alonso just made it for them. Lewis was out of contention realistically, so Alonso had more to lose. It occurred to me that it was around the time of the Russell decision that Bottas was practically opening the door for Max, so that was what m...

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“There you go…Monaco” …. so please be a doormat for the remainder of the season

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Has Hamilton realised Alonso’s game and responded in kind by backing up Ocon to ensure he loses the maximum possible points courtesy of his teammate? And perhaps he sees it as some kind of justice (I presume Merc think Ocon should have been given more than 5 seconds.) Or taken too much out of his ty...

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He was not correcting a snap. He's cut the pit lane exit to cover Charles. We all know that usually once the FIA announce they're investigating and incident like that it's a slam dunk. I think it's a slam dunk penalty (if his wheel went all the way over) but you must have seen something completely ...

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Why is Alonso intentionally driving so slow? Would it be as daft as just wanting to rub Hamilton's nose in it? It wouldn't surprise anyone No, I mean this is the guy who saw what Masi was doing in Abu Dhabi and just laughed. His dislike of Lewis is ultimately going to lead to a suboptimal outcome f...

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Exactly what FormulaFun and IDFD said. This race is bringing back a lot of memories of 2021 and not in a good way. The vicinity looks good but the track is a snooze. After the Ocon incident the fact that it’s Alonso holding him up is rubbing salt in the wound for Hamilton, who was going well until t...

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Does Bernd Maylander get to do extra laps for his birthday or what? Almost everything that could have mixed the pack up is being removed.

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That looked a bit like Grosjean’s minus the fire, why is it still a VSC when we had uber caution earlier??

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I was about to say are Merc sleeping but if they are telling George to close up maybe they’re thinking about a stop for inters

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Clearly the wets are the tyre now, but starting on time and giving the teams the choice of tyres was the chance for those drivers out of position due to the timing of the red flags yesterday to get a better position. First sensible thing I’ve heard on Sky commentary in a while. Start on time and the...

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I rate Norris and expected him and Danny Ric to be pretty evenly matched on that basis, but not this. Danny has had higher peaks but Norris is still relatively new to F1. It might be that the car has just got into his head and he would do fine with a fresh start somwhere else (Gasly and Alpha Tauri,...

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I’ve always felt that Norris was better than Sainz. Norris was a rookie at the start of their time as teammates and was also on the receiving end of a lot of bad luck. Perhaps a little error prone, the win eluding him, but so is Leclerc. I thought it before Imola, where he proved the point, so in my...

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Having read the PF1 news article that either McLaren or Ricciardo might exercise “mechanisms” to not see out the contract, I came here to ask the question of where Ricciardo might go next. I had Aston if Seb decides to retire or Williams in mind, but maybe Daniel just isn’t interested in driving fur...

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I originally thought Lewis would comply and see the sense in it (they must have data related to safety etc to have such a rule) but seeing as he has been given an extension I think we can rule that out. The FIA backing down is my prediction now, being complicit in handing Hamilton’s record breaking ...

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I think we can be certain of Verstappen and Leclerc and I’d put Hamilton not far behind. He will see out his current contract because he’ll have endless ‘he wasn’t that good, he sulked when it wasn’t going his way’ if he doesn’t. Also this year is even less the way he would want to end his F1 career...

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3 places is a joke, if more than I expected. Stroll and Bottas got 5 places for theirs in the wet in Hungary. Schumi lost his final pole to a 5 place grid drop... a more Red Bull friendly number was plucked out of the air.

There was an escape road but of course that would have left him further back.

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Verstappen. I don’t know why Lewis attempted that at the start, he was ahead of Norris and should have sat back to get track position later on his alternative strategy. Equally Mercedes should have stuck to their strategy instead of thinking that they would immediately pit after Verstappen’s slow st...

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I was expecting a straight swap with Russell, and I think a return to Williams would have been a better move for him: They've got their mojo back and I expect them to be in the points regularly next year. I can't say the same about Alfa. Completely agree. It feels more that Bottas looked at the Kim...

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Masi is Red Bull’s puppet. Needed time to evaluate whether giving the position back was the right thing to do. It’s absolute in the rules when passing off the track! Sergio has been in the sport long enough to know that without needing to be told. They referred to it as under investigation and liter...

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Was really hoping Schumacher would go to Alfa Romeo rather than languish at the back with the liability that is Mazepin. Watching F2 champions spend multiple years in the slowest car on the grid is not the one. Albon to Williams could, once Albon gets up to speed with being in F1 again, be a useful ...

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I had Mazepin down as the most likely to stay at Haas (money talks) while I had Alfa down as a possibility to pick up Schumacher. After the points I think Latifi is safe for a season. Hard to measure him when he likely has a future WDC for a teammate (aside from to say that like Perez, he’s not a gr...

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If F1/Liberty/Masi/Brawn are so fond of sprint qualifying, let that be the mark. No points awarded if the distance raced (not processed) is less than the distance of a qualifying session. I suspect if a driver in the top 10 had had the fastest lap, the regs wouldn’t have said half points on that so ...

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Lewis for suggesting the fans get their money back. No word otherwise from what I heard (although I did mute some of the coverage.) Calling it a “race” will probably be used as justification not to refund.

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It also means if the same circumstances occur elsewhere at other circuits you CAN NOT cancel as a precedent has been set. Sets up the prospect of a farcical repeat. Just weak officiating and administration by all those concerned. I hope it instead results in the regs being looked at - 4.5% of race ...

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The only person that deserved that was George having been robbed of a podium (and likely the win) in Sakhir. Never thought yesterday I’d be glad he didn’t get pole, but now I am as I want to see his first win be a proper one. Red Bull thanking Masi for getting them through this took the biscuit - th...

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I’d be more likely to root for Max if he didn’t keep spoiling the party every time an underdog nearly got pole. First Norris, now Russell.

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Team X44? After this weekend I think that Red Bull has just got a little less likely, in spite of the fact that it might help get into Lewis’s head and him being what Perez isn’t in quali. Horner is likely fuming at anyone or anything Mercedes right know and we know that Red Bull is a handful. Botta...

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How did the "experts" via it? Please help me fill it in. I've added brackets for "bias" Hamilton mainly at fault: Jenson Button (British), Mark Webber (neutral) The Stewards (neutral) David Coulthard (British) Verstappen mainly at fault: Racing incident/both at fault: Fernando Alonso (neutral), Cha...

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I think Russell won’t be announced as a Mercedes driver until after the end of the season now, and Bottas is being compliant so as to try and retain his seat. He and Mercedes both know that George won’t comply for long, it’ll be a Leclerc at Ferrari situation and any #1 status is no more once he sho...

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I have gone through all three options looking at the various angles since the coverage finished, so racing incident it is. Can’t disagree that both could have done more to avoid it. 10 second penalty is sort of going down the middle, which seems fair in this case (not that we want every single conta...

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not that it will do much, but i think perez should certainly get a penalty for the manner in which he rejoined the track. He was so desperate that despite not being under good control, he tried to rejoin and nearly lost it and spun again when entering the track. It doesn't seem to be investigated, ...

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I think the only positive is that they are awarding points to top3. Also drivers are saying they do not have to look after tyres and go flatout which I guess is little different to the race. Not sure why only 4 of them tried the soft tyres. I was expecting more soft tyre runners, but the teams must...

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I also didn’t like it, but not so much because of what happened in today’s edition of Sprint Quali. Instead, it was because it shows what will happen sooner or later and how unsatisfying that will be. Today, no one really lost anything that wasn’t of their own making. I thought Russell/Sainz was a r...

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