Back of the grid for Pierre Gasly as a result of a penalty for exceeding permitted engine usage. He was 19th anyway.

Russell will take several laps to get tyre temperature. I think he’ll be a sitting duck at the start.

At least DRS doesn’t open for the first few laps, that should help him a bit but I suspect you’re right that it won’t be too long before a Ferrari leads

In regards to tyre temps, both Alpine and Williams are good at warming them up quickly. Alonso's driving style is also very good at this so he should be one to watch in particular

Big rain on the way too!

Ocon is an idiot

Max has been masterclass so far. Things looking for him right now. *knocks on wood* Very entertaining race for Hungary.

I would love to be a fly on the wall during the Ferrari post-race meetings.

Very good race, if only that rain had come 5-10 minutes earlier!

 

Mercedes just 30 points behind Ferrari now, incredible for them to be so close.

 

Something I looked at earlier in the week has now happened, the first time Red Bull's second team have had 5 non-scoring consecutive races since Ricciardo and Vergne in 2012. AT really have been dreadful recently.

When I saw Charles started on the mediums I assumed Ferrari had a plan that was too clever for me to work out. When they put Mediums on again I thought that was odd but he'd go long then softs. So then we he pitted early for hards I finally realised the plan was to screw Charles over.

 

I mean, there had to be a plan, right?

Ferrari are the absolute gift that keeps on giving this year. Its seriously impressive how they manage to find new ways to hand points to everyone else each race.

Best Driver: Hamilton

Worst Driver: Tsunoda

Best Team: Mercedes

Worst Team: Alpha Tauri

Best Overtake: Leclerc on Russell for the lead

Worst Overtake: Ricciardo on Stroll

Best moment - The early uncertainty over who was going to win

Worst moment- Hard tyres for Charles

Best thing about the race- How anybody can go from P10 to P1 in a place like Hungary without safety car

Worst thing about the race- Rain arriving too late

 

And the race in a sentence: Another Hungary classic, full of action and tension.

Ferrari are the absolute gift that keeps on giving this year. Its seriously impressive how they manage to find new ways to hand points to everyone else each race.

To be honest they've always been like that since the 60's. In the 70's Lauda sorted them for a few years until they slowly reverted to type, then Prost had a go but couldn't cope for long and it wasn't until Schumacher and co came along that they actually got it together. It's been a long slow slip back in to old ways since then.

 

The Schumacher years were the only time I really fell out of love with them. German levels of efficiency just isn't Ferrari, it's so much better when they're all passion and ineptitude all at once and it's glorious when they actually fluke a title here and there (2007, 1979)

Best Driver: Verstappen (outdrove and out thought everyone else)

Worst Driver: Ocon (looked like he had something against a clearly quicker Alonso today)

Best Team: Red Bull (played the numbers perfectly and put what was today's third best car in the lead)

Worst Team: Alpha Tauri (they really need some upgrades now)

Best Overtake: Leclerc on Russell (even if DRS was involved it was still bold)

Worst Overtake: Verstappen on Perez (technically it counts)

Best moment - The track and temperatures adding Mercedes to the fight

Worst moment- Leclerc's early second stop or the decision to start on mediums (both were incomprehensible)

Best thing about the race- One of Verstappen's most impressive drives yet, taking the win from 10th despite a clutch problem

Worst thing about the race- Ocon

 

And the race in a sentence: If Ferrari can't win at a track that seems tailer-made for their car then it really is all over

Edited July 31, 20222 yr by Severin

Ferrari are the worst team ever at strategy... they should hire new people...

Putting hard tyres on Leclerq's car when it was apparent they didn't work on Alonso/Ocon/Magnussen etc... then stopping Carlos too early... those 2 bad tyre changes for Carlos... and already starting with the wrong tyres...

 

Ocon doesn't really understand team work, worst driver ever in that sense, never seen anything like this... no wonder Alonso is tempted to leave the team... moral of the story for Alonso, never go to a French team that has a French driver :D

 

Ricciardo seems to have completely lost it too... sad to see...

Alonso confirmed to Aston Martin :o

Absolutely furious and equally confused as hell. Diabolically stupid decision for a man that has made an entire career of them but this is just the absolute worst one yet

 

 

 

Like. How much money have they had to wave in his face to get him to be a babysitter for, and then subsurvient to, Lance „no talents or redeeming features“ Stroll????????

Wow did not see that one coming, completely leftfield. Although I suppose he's made a career of bad moves (certainly in terms of timing, if not the teams themselves). I can't ever see Aston Martin being even a top 3 team as long as Mr. Stroll is in charge.

 

On the plus side this does open the door for Piastri now. I do wonder if there was some internal pressure to make sure they gave Piastri a seat which his talent clearly deserves.

Best driver: Verstappen [even with a spin him & Lewis were in a league of their own]

Worst driver: Tsunoda [fully converted back to 2021 Yuki now]

Best team: Mercedes [what a transition from FP1!]

Worst team: Williams

Best overtake: Ricciardo on the Alpines

Worst overtake: Lewis & Max on Lando [easiest passes you'll see]

Best moment: Honestly when Max spun it brought the race for the win alive again for 2 laps

Worst moment: The fact the rain didn't quite come so we could have had a Sochi 2021-style ending

Best thing about the race: Hungary always delivers a thriller

Worst thing about the race: George couldn't convert his pole into victory

 

And the race in a sentence: Max and Lewis show their class, Ferrari again fall flat on their ass

Edited August 1, 20222 yr by Dobbo.

Wow did not see that one coming, completely leftfield. Although I suppose he's made a career of bad moves (certainly in terms of timing, if not the teams themselves). I can't ever see Aston Martin being even a top 3 team as long as Mr. Stroll is in charge.

 

On the plus side this does open the door for Piastri now. I do wonder if there was some internal pressure to make sure they gave Piastri a seat which his talent clearly deserves.

I can’t see Alpine/Renaults corporate management structure angling for a change because Alonso is vastly more marketable than both Ocon and Piastri. Unless they just flinched at his wage demand or they didn’t want to give him a multi-year contract

Alonso clearly thinking of a 'for the good of the game' move by going to AM to destroy Lance's career once and for all.

 

Seriously though it seems pretty clear that that Alpine want Piastri in the car and perhaps reasonably don't see Alonso being there long term, therefore they only offered a one year deal. AM came in with a 2+ offer as soon as they knew Vettel's decision and realistically Alonso has little other options.

 

Even if AM's car next year is a big improvement it can really only, at the very best, be a sideways move but is more likely a backwards one.