F1 2022 , Round 10 , British GP , Silverstone

What a race, loved those last 10 laps or so.

How many podiums did Albon lose because of Hamilton?

Watched it back from Micks onboard, Max does nothing apart from put his car exactly where he needs to to make it difficult for Mick.

We had aggressive moves from Checo and Sainz forcing their opponents wide and off the track to defend, and Leclerc made contact with Checo. I don’t know how you could with any seriousness say that those 3 drivers were good, hard racing while Max was out of control.

Like I said, some people can see Lewis do something normal and try and twist it into a negative, it’s the same with Max. He does something other drivers are doing but for some reason, he’s dangerous.

Think the closest he got was nose to his front wheel and the was the last corner of the race.

I really enjoyed that race. Thats what the FIA envisioned with this years rule change.

Did mick start on hard tyres? His start was going to be poor.

It is hard to know.

I remember Sainz asking Lewis 'are you guys officially back' in the weigh room after.

People had said previous that Merc would have a good performance at Silverstone, they did - but they are still where they were. They were still a decent bit off the pace in most sessions but then Hamilton was banging in fastest laps as the race progressed. It is a shame that Russell went out and we have no data from there.

Either ways we don't have long to wait to see how they fair in the next round.

don't know if this was posted previously

https://twitter.com/_markgallagher/status/1543603756041895939?t=OxHn03UfQ629tenTswvPhQ&s=19

He's absolutely right about the street circuits. The racing is so much better at "proper" race tracks, rather than cars processioning around a street track waiting for a long straight to get a DRS overtake.

You watched that race and concluded Hamilton's race craft let him down against Perez? Hard to know of this is parody or not.

Do you think maybe perez got past Hamilton because he has a much faster car? Or are we pretending the Mercedes is as fast as the RB for the sake of this point?

Hamiltons repeated claims about that says to me he didn't agree with the penalty

It's been a year now @Burkie1203 Let's move on. I'm just glad Sainz didn't have to wait until LeClerc and Verstappen were relegated to the pit wall before catching a break and winning a race. The 112th Grand Prix winner. I'm hoping Lando Norris becomes 113.

I suggest you look at the lap times. When in clean air, Hamilton's Mercedes was faster than Sergio's Red Bull. Lewis simply got mugged by Perez then took longer to find his way past the ailing Leclerc. After that he was catching the Red Bull again as his car was faster in those conditions but it was too late. He set his fastest lap while chasing Perez down, a full half a second faster than the best Sergio could muster, but he'd lost too much in the early scuffle by that point so he couldn't catch him.

Clearly over the season the Red Bull has been faster than the Mercedes, but in those exact conditions this clearly wasn't the case if you look at the lap times and are open to believing facts rather than resorting to confirmation bias. The track conditions obviously suited the Mercedes plus Perez had been in an incident earlier in the race and may have been carrying some damage.

Mega race, all the action and Carlos well deserved first win. Bravo to the Smooth Operator!!!!

Glad that Guanyu Zhao walked away from that one safely. They might have to ban blade roll hoops... it completely separated from the car (disintegrated).

Ferrari (largely) made the right calls on Sainz & LeClerc, people seem to forget that Charles was driving a damaged car and should have ordered him to hold position early in the race... even if he was able to close up on Sainz and lap a bit faster. Charles wing might have failed( or had to come in to replace it) later in the race. Plus Sainz started on pole ... it was his race to win. They should have played the team game and focused on getting a 1-2 (with Sainz 1st). Charles seemed to spend his race complaining to the team to give him the race at Sainz's expense.

Sainz was 100% right to refuse the request to back the field up by 10 lengths to give Charles a cushion on the restart, this was nuts... Charles wasn't goin to win cause he was on the wrong tires and backing the pack up would have put Sainz winning at risk, giving a race win opportunity to Hamilton or Perez.

The finger waging he got from Binoto at the end was probably along the lines of "... yes that's great to hear your grievances Charles but you should be happy a Ferrari Driver won."

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I didn't like the way Max pushed Mick Schumacher completely off the track going into Luffields on the last lap(s), with a little more experience Mick should have complained to the stewarts on that one.