F1 2023 - Round 12: Hungary

Max is a ludicrous human being.

Barely 2nd, and he all but said the car is a piece of shít. As entitled as anyone I've ever watched.

The man on pole has done quite a bit of moaning about his car this season.

Well technically, C4 have outsourced their commentary to F1 TV.

Nobody gets thrown out of Formula 1 for "moaning" and nobody ever will.

Tell me about it.

“We have not performed the way we should be performing all weekend, it has been really difficult to get the most out of the car. I was struggling with putting the balance together, front to rear. We tried a lot of different things in terms of set-up but it didn’t really work. When you are struggling in qualifying you can only try one or two things and then when you really push you fall out of the window again."

That's Max, that's P2 and that's exactly the same type of "moaning" that Lewis is being accused of here. Same kind of language, same kind of attitude, same everything.

This is how the first three laps will go.

Max will drop back to third off the lights being on the dirty side of the grid, start of lap 2 he'll dive into turn 1 and drive around Norris into 2nd, end of lap 2 he'll do the same to Lewis and drive off into the sunset.

I get your point but that's a winning attitude. Would you rather him be satisfied at not extracting peak performance from his car? Great athletes constantly strive for perfection, and that's what Max is going to do every week. And "had a perfect environment all season", whether it's true or not no athlete gives a shlt what happened last week.

And one final point. If Tiger, MJ, Messi or any other athlete was mic'd up while they were playing, the tape wouldn't even be allowed air. I personally don't judge any driver, Russell, Hamilton or Verstappen, by what they say whilst performing at an insanely high level under immense pressures. It's not representative of any person.

I'm well aware moaning is part and parcel of F1 driving.

But listening to Max, you'd swear the car was miles behind, and he barely eked out everything he could. When in reality, he was 3 thousandths behind. And the Lewis lap was largely a surprise to most.

I'm not bothered by drivers having a moan when it's quite obvious that there are a few issues, or there's been a run of bad races and all that. It makes sense.

But when you're steamrolling everyone in a car that's been miles ahead, and you could break every single season record, his level of annoyance with his tools yesterday was just a bit ridiculous to me.

Change in tyre compound looks like it has effected teams in a positive and negative way. I'm not so sure if the race will pan out the way people are thinking it will go.

Hamilton gets a pole and you can feel the tension on here rising.

Couldn't care which one of them betters the other but it would be great having them side by side every race.

Love em or hate em, them having ding dong battles is box office.

Anyone fighting at the back even is better than anyone at the front coasting around miles ahead.

Really looking forward to todays race. If Max drops places at the start i think he'll struggle to overtake cars here compared to most other tracks so its not a foregone conclusion he'll win today. I wouldnt mind seeing Norris win and also Piastri get on the podium.

Irish flag spotted behind the F1 Juniors! 🙌🏻

And with a spin

I think this race is usually the hottest of the year.