What I find kinda interesting: you can overtake but it seems unless you are in a Mercedes or your opponent is having issues you can't pull away from your opponent. Verstappen managed to stick with Hamilton for the last few laps. Almost as if the close air actually cured the cooling tyres. Also Alpine scoring big points, both cars in the Top 10.
it didnt, hamilton built up a gap each lap in the corners but verstappen caught up with overtake mode on the back straight. best race this season so far for sure, i think mercedes might not have such a huge advantage in monaco so things could get interesting
Will be interesting to see how active aero changes Monaco. Potentially makes the run into the nouvelle chicane back into an overtaking place, unless they cuck and won't allow the aero in the tunnel. The difference in deployment migh also make Sainte Devote a bit easier to use for an overtake.
At least we always have the possibility of a total shit show with deployment and clipping creating mistakes. Just think what a Monaco crash will be like if we get a repeat of Colapinto and Bearman at Suzuka with the closing speeds.
for throwing his headrest on the track, he got "fined €5.000, suspended for a period of 12 months subject to no further breaches by the driver of a similar nature."
"The driver explained that he was extremely frustrated having failed to finish the race, and expressed his embarrassment as what subsequently followed. He apologised to the Stewards for his action and acknowledged that it did not set a good example and offered to apologise publicly. The Stewards acknowledged this and accepted his apology."
quite lenient!
Hülkenberg was "out of position at Safety Car Line 1 during the formation lap" and "did not enter the Pit Lane as required by the Regulations"
For that, he got a "mandatory Stop-and-Go penalty imposed after the Race. This penalty is suspended for the period ending at the final race of the 2026 Championship on condition that no further similar breach, by this driver, occurs."
quite bizarre!
I understand why there are penalties for "unsportsmanlike conduct" and I get that George is probably the biggest putz of any driver, but...
Oh, never mind. I was laughing at his retirement, Leclerc being a diva on the radio. If those two fuckers weren't sweating bullets at the prospect of a Piastri WDC last year, they are positively shitting themselves over Kimi absolutely dominating.
I should like Russell: He's British. He has some talent. In opening credits for F1 where I separate the drivers, based on their appearances, into two categories - WW1 fighter ace or twink from a promotional leaflet for a gay massage parlour, he is one of the few to fall into the former category. However, there is some very off-putting about him. In a sport where practically everyone involved is a massive prick, he manages to elevate his inate prickeshness in a way that is hard to define. He is the Aryton Senna of being a prick, mercurial in his raw ability. He doesn't strike me as a very genuine person; we never see the real Russell.
The Canadian GP was a race where the experience of drivers, or lack there-of, was on show and I liked that. I have a feeling that, had Russell not DNFd, Antonelli would have taken himself out. LeClerc increasingly sounds like someone who realises that his moment that has come and gone. He's 28 but he grumbles like a man in his 50s with the kind of chronic back pain that one can only get from driving an Aston Martin. If he owns a front lawn then he would certainly be unhappy about kids playing on it.
