F1 2022 , Round 10 , British GP , Silverstone

What a race! Delighted for Sainz, has had some back luck recently but Ferrari need to sort themselves out, Leclerc has every reason to be annoyed - I had kind of assumed he missed the pit lane on the safety car but I just saw that wasn’t the case, so it seems they wanted to split strategy with very few laps left “just because”. It doesn’t matter how good the car is if they keep hamstringing themselves they’ll never win the championship.

Not a bad day for Red Bull all things considered, Perez did very well on the last restart and it was a brilliant battle between himself, Hamilton and Leclerc at the end, while there was some great defence from Max to keep P7.

The crash looked horrific so its great to see Zhou is completely fine.

Race of the year so far, let’s hope for more of that!

Well done to Carlos, finally getting the monkey off his back. He may not be the fastest but he is consistent and a likeable character.

I suppose it’s easy to say sitting on the couch, as soon as I saw Ocon slowing up I thought Ferrari better be getting two sets of softs ready and would have called box as soon as the SC was deployed, as would most of us! But it’s a different pressure sitting on the wall making that call! In saying that! In saying that. It was a total f**k up from Ferrari today. They pitted Sianz so we know they must have thought about it with LEC too and for some brainfart reason decided not to!

But as mentioned above, it's not. The Ferrari and the Red Bull's seems fairly well matched, and even Verstappen's record over the past 2-3 seasons is an absolutely crazy level of consistent. When he's finished in an undamaged car his worst finishing position has been 3rd - which only happened once since 2020. You have to go back to Turkey in 2020 (a race in which he spun and required an extra pit stop) to find the last time he finished off podium in an undamaged car.

Very much hoping Leclerc can win the title this year, but I personally don't think there's any driver aside from Hamilton that can rival Verstappen's consistency. Scary to think he's only 24 as well.. If gets the same longevity that Hamilton got in a top car he can definitely add a considerable number of WDC's to his tally.

Maybe i'm missing something but why didn't they pit Lec on the second safety lap? May have dropped to third but should still have been way ahead of Perez?

Question.

What happens between the time the safety car is deployed and the time it picks up the leader? VSC deltas? In which case Lec should have been able to pit next time around and still emerge as leader. Assume the SC then travels at less than deltas which allows the field to back up? Lapped cars when unlapping themselves must be still on VSC deltas?