F1 2021 Round 15:Russian Grand Prix 2021

Max sounds happy with that

That wasn't brave, that was poor from McLaren, they had all the info and should have been stronger in dictating strategy rather than leaving it all to the guy chasing his first win. Of course he is going to be emotive and plump for the hail mary rather than the sensible call, but it was never the right call.

Bottas ends up P5 after a woeful race.

Usually you get a crazy result and an unexpected winner/podium after races like that. Merc were tailored to this track so they will be very happy to get the win, regardless of the fashion of it.

Max getting second on the weekend he takes his penalty, yup, he will be happy.

I thought as well, he gave it a bit of a stare as if it took a few seconds to realise who it was.

And yet not ask him about LCL almost taking his wing.

Hill is adamant that Max is a dirty driver, it’s a dreadful question to be asking someone who finished P2. He’d never ask Lewis that.

Was a really interesting race, devastating for Norris, I thought he had it in the bag!

Hamilton deservedly gets his 100th win, Mercedes team was faultless today.

Red Bull will be happy though, new PU and virtually no penalty. Roll on Turkey!

Ah seb, you were cutting through the field on drys and then left it too late for inter, stroll not doing him any favours lately.

Obviously Hamilton and Mercedes will be delighted with the result but max getting p2 from p20 will definitely sour it somewhat. You'd imagine it's advantage red bull with a fresh engine in the back and they were saying on sky there's rumours around the paddock that Lewis will have to take a new PU by thr end of the season.

For lando, its a gut punch and he'll have to learn from it too, you have to trust your team on the pit wall. All in all, as good a race as you'll get in sochi, the season will go down as a great one in the history books.

Wow what an end to that race. Feel for Norris but his time will come soon. Still unsure how Max made up all those places, just chose the perfect time to put.

The (pre-rain) moment the race was won in my opinion was Lewis' call to box, and Ricciardo's slow pit stop. Ricc comes out ahead of Ham things would be completely different. Moments like that remind me what I love about F1.

Now to get some work done so I can relax and watch Indy later.

It is genuinely strange to see a comment here about how great this race was. Usually just fanboys sniping at drivers they don't like. I agree Lando was brilliant today and I felt so bad seeing him lose control. He will learn from this just like Lewis did in 2007 and become a better driver.

I think the only way he wins it would be deciding to pit ahead of Hamilton. It would have been interesting to see what if Hamilton would have done had that happened, would he have gambled on staying out.

I really think F1, Liberty, Sky etc need to improve the way they communicate information about what is happening on track.

They give us plenty of useless data, lots of kind of crap analysis. There is definitely opportunities for them to tell stories more effectively.

I know it happens very quickly etc, but if Im being honest I've no idea what happened in the top ten over the last six laps other than Lando and Lewis. It just seemed to be unexplainable chaos with crofty shouting at us. When actually they have a lot of tools to tell us what cohorts have pitted first and what tires they are on. Simplify the interface, no need to give us actual laptimes, just give us a heat map that visualises their speed relative to each other.