Superb strategic play from Alpine there and a Fernando masterclass from lights to flag

Having now watched it, I'd say the shorter length (10 laps) is probably ideal. Perez, Sainz and Lewis can feel rightly annoyed by their result but as expected Fernando gained, Russell went backwards and the tyres will struggle with tomorrow's higher temps.

 

Still feels like little more than a 24 hour red flag period where the race stopped as it was about to get interesting

I think Sainz is the only one with legit cause for irritation. Lewis was beaten fair and Square in a Race battle and Perez made an error and has only has himself to blame. Could have happened in a race or at any time in a normal quali session

If it was 10 laps that would be great, it all went a bit quiet once Ricciardo passed Alonso.

Alonso was the star of the sprint but besides that it was too long and boring

and for me it doesn't feel like a qualy

the qualy should measure who's best at making 1 lap, not a 30 min race

Elimination qualifying was bad, double points was gimmicky, medals was even worse,

I’m not a big fan of this on first impression, it’s just going to reward the top 3 even more than the Sunday race does. It wasn’t particularly interesting to watch either.

3 place grid penalty for Russell for his incident with Sainz.

I think Sainz is the only one with legit cause for irritation. Lewis was beaten fair and Square in a Race battle and Perez made an error and has only has himself to blame. Could have happened in a race or at any time in a normal quali session

 

I think Lewis can reasonably be annoyed after a quite brilliant lap in what should have been the most exciting qualifying session for a while will not ever be seen as pole because of a gimmicky race weekend.

 

Perez did a decent enough job in actual qualifying only to throw it away before the race even starts. Sure it was his error but I would posit that the situation (light fuel and 'pressure' to perform) contributed even if it's himself he should be most annoyed with.

 

Sainz should be fuming to be honest. Decent quali but gets taken out through no fault of his own after having left Russell plenty of room.

 

Did Russell deserve a penalty? Under the current guidelines yes (just about), George made his trademark poor start and was getting swamped. He then compounded it with an unforced error that compromised an opponent . Since 'this is not a race' it's comparable to spoiling another drivers fast lap in quali (and yes Leclerc should have had a penalty in Austria for taking out Gasly).

 

This simply feels like a pointless gimmick that has told us far too much information about car and tyre performance before the race has started, as well as smoothing out most of the anomalies from the qualifying.

I did think it got a bit boring towards the end as drivers understandably decided to stick with what they'd got, but if you made it any shorter it would still happen in the last quarter/third, and everyone would just go on the softer compound, at least with 30 mins there was a split of strategies which made it more interesting.

Max out of the British Grand Prix straight away!

I will be disappointed if Hamilton now wins and closes the gap massively.

 

 

Desperate move from Hamilton there.

Red flag, certainly been dramatic in the only race Channel 4 show live this season.

Toto Wolff has sent Michael Masi an email with diagrams showing Hamilton wasn't at fault. No, really.

Soft penalty for Hamilton, 10 second time penalty.

10 seconds defo not enough :angry:

Toto Wolff has sent Michael Masi an email with diagrams showing Hamilton wasn't at fault. No, really.

couldn't believe this when I heard the radio :lol:

If Verstappen had done it, he would have been vified by the British media.

Leclerc genuinely has a chance of winning today.