VER had an early scare but recovered quickly and definitively. PER with another recovery drive but this one was not as impressive as the last one.
NOR and PIA stamping their authority on this race as the second best car on the grid. NOR scoring the first podium for the team and PIA finally showcasing his potential. A very good weekend for McLaren.
HAM and RUS brining in some good points for the Merc and HAM getting a podium to boot. Merc will walk away happy from this race. But they have a McLaren problem to chew on in the future.
Ferrari going backwards yet again and just about staying in the points. Strategy was lacking again and this time it seems the car struggled too. LEC was a bit unlucky but SAI was hung out to dry. Getting overtaken by a Williams. The drivers really need to grab the strategy calls away from the team.
AM were nowhere in this race. The early promise seems to have withered. ALO outperforming STR by a mile yet again. The penalty for STR didn’t help. STR needs to push harder and more sensibly.
ALB getting really lucky with that safety car but was a strong performance before that too. All the safety car did is sealed some points for the team. Good on them. SAR not doing too badly this time, needs to keep delivering like this.
Not a good outing for Alpine, Alfa, Alpha and Haas. Just another day ending in y for Alfa and Haas but Alpha and Alpine will be wondering where their pace has gone. The only silver lining was BOT gained quite a few places given where he started.
Decent race. 7/10.
Thanks for writing this.
It was a good race with some great overtakes and battles. I’m looking forward to a stronger Mclaren.
Cheers! Hopefully AM, Merc and McLaren can push each other into stronger performances and we will have someone challenging Max for victories in the latter half of the season. Can’t add Ferrari to that mix until they fire their current strategists and get some new blood in that department.
I don’t think someone challenging max this season is a possibility. But I’l be more than happy to watch good close battles for 2-8 places.
Couldn’t watch race, just the recap. Is consensus that Ferrari were just slow, or was it a Ferrari Moment ™ situation?
Why not both? Yes they were slow, struggling in the high speed corners. Sainz sounded exasperated with the strategy too. It sounded like he’s had enough. I doubt he will be there next year.
More of a ferrari moment combined with some bad luck.