F1 2021 Round 15:Russian Grand Prix 2021

A favourite trick of mine on the game,

They just didn't mention that really, I was wondering how they would work out where he should be.

The best part is that he didn’t even have to give them back! He had the move into P3 before we went off and was entitled to come back on and keep the place!

Just listening to a clip again on the news, "Lando, what do you think about inters?"

Its clear that they thought inters were the right choice, that they could see the rain and what everybody else was doing.

But instead of making the decision they ask the guy who is 21 years old, never won a race before but now leading into the final 4 laps with Lewis Hamilton only one second behind, who is clearly emotive on the radio calls and feeling the pressure, and who doesn't have all the information.

They were also 30+ seconds ahead of 3rd place. The decision was easy there but instead they ask Lando what he thinks about inters. That is shocking from the McClaren pitwall.

Four points finishes for Russell in the last five races. I can't wait to see in a Mercedes next year.

Tried to find a video of it, but I can't get one.

Add to that that it's exceedingly difficult to drive in the rain, requiring supreme attentiveness to the signals given by the car.

The conditions deteriorated part of the way into Norris's second lap after Hamilton pitted. If he didn't pit the lap Hamilton pitted, there was no reason to pit the next one either. He had a huge gap to third place, and it was only because the car became undrivable that he lost out on 2nd place.

That was totally Lewis's fault at Monza. At the time I thought racing incident but having seen the slow mo on Channel 4s qualifying program yesterday which was very good by the way it was totally Lewis's fault and he should have been the one to get the penaultys not Max. Lewis did not leave enough room for Max. He forced him onto the green and then into the Kerp because Max had no where else to go. Your supposed to leave a car space beside you and Lewis did not do that there.

Alonso pitting a lap earlier and he comes home second.

It's great to have these races where there isn't just a battle up front - seems like it's been a long time since we had decent midfield battles - today was a good show of this. Aside from Verstappens surprise race and Lewis's 100 wins,

Russell scored another point for Williams.

Alonso had a great race too.

Bottas seemed lost in P14 and managed to finish 5th.

Sainz finishing third.

Noteworthy to me lately is Perez, granted he suffered an awful pitstop but he's not seemed up to the mark at all (started the season well) but fails to pull it out the bag in qualifying and all too often finishes midfield. 5th in the championship when your team mate is contending for the title in the same car - hmm.

I know it would suck for Lando if he was penalised on top of everything else, but he really should have been. It’s a very clear black and white rule, one of the most straightforward in the rule book. The fact that he only broke it by accident doesn’t come into it. Aston Martin didn’t intentionally fail to provide enough fuel at the end of Hungary and they were disqualified, there is simply no consistency.

These sort of grey areas where the stewards are free to make it up as they go along and choose whether or not they want to penalise a clear infraction just further damage trust and leaves you with that niggling feeling that they keep leaving the door open for further controversies and further manipulation of results in the stewards room.

Tsunoda got a time penalty and penalty points for this earlier this season:

The rules need to be applied consistently or it just makes a mockery of the sport. If the rule is now "actually crossing the white line is ok as long as it wasn't intentional" then make that clear for everyone going forward and don't penalise anyone else for what Tsunoda did in future.

Ah, it would have been worse to stay on slicks in the wet weather for another lap. I'm fine with applying a bit of cop on too. Rules for rules sake would have penalised Lando and I think that would have been silly. He crossed the line because he was on the wrong tyre for the conditions. He was coming into the pits to get on the correct (and safe) tyre. I'm fine with the decision.

You could make the point that numerous other cars entered the pit lane without incident while conditions were wet albeit not as bad as when Norris attempted to do so. Still, a top F1 driver ought to accomplish such a manoeuvre irrespective of tyres or weather conditions. He was going too fast entering the pit road. That's all. The stewards decision is a joke. You cannot apply the rules selectively just to suit particular circumstances. He crossed the white line (twice) and should have been punished.