Well, that added something to the race. IMHO a justified penalty, as Lewis was behind and had well more than a car width. You can't keep diving towards a late apex when there is a car there, it just doesn't work.

Glad that Max seems to be fine, and I do think that off might bring up the run off area there. He didn't scrub much speed at all on the way to the wall, so a double wall might be a wise idea. Also interesting how the wheel came right off, but that's another issue.

Other than that, some really good drives.

Lewis drove a great recovery drive once he got his head down. Hard to say if he was in long game mode on the first set of tires and not wanting to take life out of them to pass Leclerc, of if the Merc just fired up the hards better and thus the lap times. Either way, not much in it at the end and he had to push hard to make it to the front.

Good to see that Ferrari had a good race, even with Leclerc's issues. Though Lewis was on fire after the stop, the time lost with the problems on the Ferrari might have given Charles a chance at the win. But he did well to keep it in second spot, and a good recovery drive from Sainz to bring the car up to 6th spot.

Ricciardo finally had a good race, but Norris got screwed out of a shot at a podium with that pit stop. Being we know that Bottas isn't very racy on track, that 4 seconds was huge. And Lando had the additional issue of coming out behind Alonso.

Stroll, Ocon, and Tsunoda were all fairly solid drives, and as is often the case Alonso got the most out of the car on race day.

Crap weekend for Perez, and I think RB seemed to drop the ball with messing with his strategy today and calling him in early. But then RB was also wise enough to make the call to go for fast lap to steal the point from Lewis..... and in the process gave up a point themselves. In a tight battle that point might matter.



I swear listening to Croft and Brundle worship Lewis is bad enough on any track, but downright enough to make you sick at the British GP. I especially liked the moaning over the penalty and how it had ruined Lewis's race. Then they ignore the rest of the race and rattle on about anything Lewis related, all with such sickening glee.

And as usual here on the forums, both sides of the opinion on Lewis make their love, dislove (yes new word I made up for this!), and biases known as well. It reaches a point of just silly IMHO.... it's a race and things happen. Had this been two of many other drivers nobody would have their claws out one way or another most likely. Some of you sound like Toto with the new rule he fabricated to justify that it was only the fault of Max.