Think it also proves again that gravel is essential to a good F1 circuit. If that had happened at Sochi or Paul Richard etc then that would have been like a place lost at most. Gravel gave us 7 lost places and the requirement to fight back.

 

 

Best race I’ve seen live in quite a while. Imola is a great track and fitting that on a weekend that another new crap track is announced, it’s a Classic autodrome that throws up a great race

Agreed, tarmac is the worst choice behind gravel, grass, walls and high kerbs, (depending on location and safety)

Can Imola be permanent on the calendar please? Decent race indeed. Great drive from Lando Norris to get that podium. I hope this will be a close championship battle. Mazepin still awful.

Enjoyed that race again, good entertainment from start to finish. So impressed by Lando this season so far, great to see him on the podium.

Kimi Raikkonen will not take home any points from Imola after landing a 30-second time penalty for a race restart infringement

 

Under the regulations Raikkonen was entitled to retake his position after a spin at Turn 3 on the lap before the race restart following its suspension, one brought about by a collision involving George Russell and Valtteri Bottas.

 

That was as long as Raikkonen did so before the first Safety Car line, and from here contradictions from Alfa Romeo, as well as a lack of communication between the team and the race director, led to Raikkonen taking the restart incorrectly.

 

With the team telling him to hold position rather than regain the lost places, he should have then started from the pit lane instead of taking the rolling re-start.

 

Raikkonen had finished P9, but with 30 second added to his race time he now drops to P13, promoting Fernando Alonso into the points.

 

 

certainly not gonna complain about a double points finish for Alpine-Renault and Nandos first points back!

 

Awesome win for Max and podium for Lando.

 

Lewis did get lucky and it shows how flawless max is going to have to be to win the title

 

Poor mistake for George - and such a shame as he was having a blinder before that

Mazepin's he's a bit like Mazzacane at the moment with the MAZ identifier.

how long do we think tsunoda's gonna last...

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nice race (thanks to the rain), Verstappen was flawless for once

 

how can Latifi still be in F1? he's been in F1 for a while now but he raced yesterday like if it were his first day

Also awful race for Vettel and I'd say also Bottas, who before the incident was barely fighting for the bottom of the top 10

 

Alpine has to be the most disappointing car at the moment. Not sure what happened during winter, they were fighting for podiums at the end of last season and now can barely be top 10... but at least Fernando Alonso got 1 point (sorry Raikonen not sorry)

It does worry me that Vettel is being beaten by Stroll....

 

Surely that is career over if he can’t get in front of Lance

What an epic race that was. Echo the sentiments that not having Imola next year onwards will be a huge shame as we've seen how brilliant it can be. Action all the way through the race and an unforgiving track!

 

Lewis definitely had the luck with the timing of that read flag but superb fight back especially considering he was carrying end plate damage all race. My thoughts on the crash are it was more Russell's fault (saying that as a big Russell fan). Think it was overambitious and didn't look like Bottas swerved to the extent he claimed he did (haven't seen onboard of Bottas though as of yet if it even exists).

 

Thrilled to see Lando on the podium and he looks like he's got the measure of Ricciardo on early evidence. Ferrari having a much stronger bounce back than I would have expected as well.

what I don't get is why the Alpines are so much worst this season? they ended up on a high last year and that was like 4 months ago

I think it's just because Ferrari & Alpha Tauri have both massively improved so Alpine are currently at best the 6th fastest team which is only one position lower than they finished as Renault last season. Ricciardo also outperformed the car last season imo.

I don’t think we Are That much worse off. Our podiums came through right circumstances and because Ferrari were diabolical and we were on par with McLaren. The Merc engine has given McLaren a boost and Ferrari have overcome their set back stronger than expected

The Japanese Grand Prix will remain at Suzuka for at least the next three years after a contract extension with Formula 1 was announced.

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We're going back to the ice rink!

I like the track at Turkey. It’s the exception to the rule that the modern tracks are shite

Yeah it's one of Tilke's best by far. That, Sepang & COTA are his holy trinity.