Formula 1

[Doctor Pepper]

Bit rich for Max to be whining about that, isn't it?

In the post-race interview he was brushing it off as nothing untoward. Talk about two-faced...............

 

[Tetchytyke]

In the post-race interview he was brushing it off as nothing untoward. Talk about two-faced

I'm sure the complaints and protests more came from Christian Horner, a man whose face one would never tire of punching.

 

[JD2168]

Lando Norris has won the Austrian Grand Prix ahead of Oscar Piastri in second & Charles Leclerc in third. A spirited battle at the start between the McLaren’s until the first stops eventually fizzled out as the race continued & didn’t quite materialise towards the end.

The race was a disaster for Red Bull: Max Verstappen was crashed into on the opening lap by Kimi Antonelli at turn three after Antonelli misjudged his braking point. He had a three place penalty & 2 penalty points on his license for the British Grand Prix. Yuki Tsunoda in the other car finished last after colliding with Franco Colapinto at turn four & collecting a ten second penalty along with poor pace.

Colapinto also picked up a five second penalty after pushing Piastri onto the grass between turns three & four & Piastri had his second pit stop.

The other points went to Lewis Hamilton, George Russell (poor pace from Mercedes on a hot track), Liam Lawson, Fernando Alonso (after both doing a one stop strategy), Gabriel Bortoletto for his first points on an impressive weekend where he got into Q3 & Nico Hulkenberg.

The race was run to 70 rather than 71 laps after Carlos Sainz Williams failed to pull away, barely moved as the leaders came round to form the grid then he pulled into the pits to start & the rear brakes caught fire in the Pit Lane. Alex Albon retired the other Williams to make a poor weekend for the team.

The next race is next weekend: the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

 

[Geezertronic]

I was lucky enough to go to Cheltenham to see Guenther Steiner Unfiltered with my son, and paid extra for the Meet & Greet (there was probably 15 of us) where we got our hard-back copy of his book signed and a photo as well.

He was a very nice bloke, and one of the things he agreed on as that the issues with Red Bull and the 2nd seat curse was down to them designing a car specifically for Max as it cannot be the 2nd drivers as they all have mainly struggled since Danny Ric left - Perez is the obvious exception but even he was not consistent. The hope is that Hadjar never gets "promoted" to the Red Bull 2nd seat

 

[gswindale]

The race was a disaster for Red Bull: Max Verstappen was crashed into on the opening lap by Kimi Antonelli at turn three after Antonelli misjudged his braking point. He had a three place penalty & 2 penalty points on his license for the British Grand Prix. Yuki Tsunoda in the other car finished last after colliding with Franco Colapinto at turn four & collecting a ten second penalty along with poor pace.

On the plus side for Verstappen & Red Bull, he is now a few penalty points further away from a ban.

 

[Nicholas Lewis]

Lando Norris has won the Austrian Grand Prix ahead of Oscar Piastri in second & Charles Leclerc in third. A spirited battle at the start between the McLaren’s until the first stops eventually fizzled out as the race continued & didn’t quite materialise towards the end.

The race was a disaster for Red Bull: Max Verstappen was crashed into on the opening lap by Kimi Antonelli at turn three after Antonelli misjudged his braking point. He had a three place penalty & 2 penalty points on his license for the British Grand Prix. Yuki Tsunoda in the other car finished last after colliding with Franco Colapinto at turn four & collecting a ten second penalty along with poor pace.

Colapinto also picked up a five second penalty after pushing Piastri onto the grass between turns three & four & Piastri had his second pit stop.

The other points went to Lewis Hamilton, George Russell (poor pace from Mercedes on a hot track), Liam Lawson, Fernando Alonso (after both doing a one stop strategy), Gabriel Bortoletto for his first points on an impressive weekend where he got into Q3 & Nico Hulkenberg.

The race was run to 70 rather than 71 laps after Carlos Sainz Williams failed to pull away, barely moved as the leaders came round to form the grid then he pulled into the pits to start & the rear brakes caught fire in the Pit Lane. Alex Albon retired the other Williams to make a poor weekend for the team.

The next race is next weekend: the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Spirited performance by Lando for sure but this is going head to head all the way to the end of the season and either them can still win it.

 

[PG]

He was a very nice bloke, and one of the things he agreed on as that the issues with Red Bull and the 2nd seat curse was down to them designing a car specifically for Max as it cannot be the 2nd drivers as they all have mainly struggled since Danny Ric left - Perez is the obvious exception but even he was not consistent. The hope is that Hadjar never gets "promoted" to the Red Bull 2nd seat

Maybe they need an Aussie number 2 driver as Mark Webber famously described himself! He and Riccardo have been the only ones to measure up...
As for  any half decent driver in the junior team - their best option is to look elsewhere on the grid before Red Bull decide to promote them into the main team.

Full credit to McLaren for just letting their drivers race instead of having a chosen one.