F1 2022 , Round 10 , British GP , Silverstone

just rewatched the highlights on the sky f1 YouTube channel and it’s amazing to say it but Albon will be feeling his shunts more than Zhou which as I said it amazing given where Zhou's car ended up. Albon hit the wall on the start/finish straight and then got two hefty enough hits from two cars.

All in all, probably a very good team result with Max down the pecking order.

The gobshítes probably didn't realise the race was stopped for a completely unrelated reason.

Max living rent free in your head it seems.

But Lewis was there in the fight at the end🤔 thankfully he didn't miss the apex and cause an aeroplane crash this time around!

F**king idiots. Cars still on track at the time but luckily on a slow inlap because of the red flag, dread to think what could've happened with cars at full speed.

Pretty solid race all in all.

The new regulations are working well at real race tracks, I think the problem is F1's move away to ever more street circuits that seem to predominantly rely on a single massive straight with a stop at the end for their overtaking. The new cars don't create as much slipstream so aren't as effective at the likes of Baku, Miami or even Canada. But go to a proper circuit like Silverstone, or the likes of Bahrain earlier in the season, and the racing is better than it's been for years with reduced dirty air. The organisers need to take note when looking at introducing new tracks to the calendar.

Glad to see Sainz win as he's such a likeable driver, but to be honest it wasn't exactly the most glorious performance as his teammate was faster all race with a damaged car. The commentators on Channel 4 (as an aside, what a treat to have a broadcast team who actually know what they're talking about for once, rather than being stuck with Sky) said it was possible that losing the end plate may have actually helped with the balance as the car was a bit oversteery which we saw with Carlos' off, but that seems a stretch.

Leclerc was of course robbed by absolutely dismal Ferrari strategy once again. But only after Max was robbed after making a blistering start and looking like he was heading to a dominant victory. Extremely poor form from the race directors - drivers had been on the radio saying there was debris on the track but they never bothered to clear it, a decision that ultimately that took the race leader out of contention. Incredible drive from Max thereafter. He was missing half his floor and the car was handling so badly he thought he had a puncture, yet he still put up in a superb drive holding his own against much faster cars and only lost 6 points to his main title rival. That's the sort of performance that separates the best of the best from the rest.

With Verstappen and Leclerc out of the way for different reasons, the race was pretty much handed on a plate to Sainz and Hamilton, though Lewis ultimately lacked the race craft to keep the charging Perez at bay. A deserved driver of the day for Sergio, from last place after lap 1 through no fault of his own to second at the end is an impressive drive. Some really great overtakes on the way there too. Alonso worth a mention too for getting the Alpine ahead of some faster cars. Further down the points it was great to see Mick Schumacher finally get on the score board, with some great racing with Verstappen on the way there too. And Vettel once again driving like the champion he is and dragging one of the slowest cars on the grid up into the points.

Star of the weekend was of course the Halo. It arguably saved two lives between F1 and F2. It was a refreshing change too when it was announced that Zhou was ok that the British fans cheered a driver not being hurt, which is progress.

Does carrying those chips on your shoulders not get a bit much?

Can you not make a post on a race without throwing a dig at Hamilton in some way?

Also apart from ludicrously claiming, apparently seriously, that Hamilton attempted to murder Verstappen you also claimed that overtaking at Copse is not possible which was funny because both Hamilton and Leclerc proved last year and today that it is in fact possible. You forgot to mention that bit.

You could have acknowledged that the top 3 all had great drives but heaven forbid that would involve acknowledging what most people accept was the truth of the race, which is that Hamilton also had a great race. Your claim of him not having the race craft could be argued that he just doesn't have as fast a car as Checo, and Max proved today that no matter how good you are if you don't have one of the fastest cars you end up battling Haas and Alpine

Max wasn't 'robbed' he drive over some debris, it happens, in fact it was his choice to hit it head on as he hoped it would disintigrate or get tossed aside, he was just unlucky that it damaged his underside (not quite missing half his floor though). It was a good recovery drive though and he may look at those points later on as invaluable.

You might post some utter w@nk but you have me hooked to read to see how you get a dig at Hamilton every time,I really hope you are at least trying to charge him rent!

Well…there’s a stupid post.

Hamilton made the apex when racing LEC, he was in middle of the track when racing Max

Also, Hamiltons own logic last year was he was alongside so Max should have yielded. But when Max was in same position in Abu Dhabi on lap 1, Hamilton didnt yield, he cut the corner and that was allowed by the stewards.

Max did nothing different yesterday that others, Checo, LEC, Sainz etc were doing, yet he is singled out for it. The racing at the end was hardly clean but it was also racing. You can judge it by the rules or by having a feel for what was happening and IMO they gave as good as they got. Race on

The only people that seemed to have been concerned with the Mick/Max battle are people online. Not a word about it from Haas and not even a hint that Mick was in any way annoyed about Max's defence. The 2 of them had what seemed a very amicable conversation afterwards.

The Haas simply didn't have the pace to pass the Red Bull without Max yielding, which almost no driver would have done. Correct me if I'm wrong but at no point did Mick even get his nose in front of Max.

I think that could be the turning point for Merc.

They will have gotten a lot of encouragement from that race.

I'm not the only one thinking that so. Dont forget his hard-on for Vettel and Alonso.