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Logan Sargeant confirmed for Williams next year if he gets enough points on his license.

 

 

Also, the entire Red Bull team have been called in at once and emerged looking very downbeat. However, according to their head of communications it is not related to the cost cap

 

 

 

 

Now confirmed that Dietrich Mateschitz, the owner of Red Bull, has died. He had been unwell for some time

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Oh thats sad 😔

 

He was a huge supporter of do do many sports and athletes and unique and small disciplines that have been able to get such a huge platform and survive thanks to Red Bull

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Unbelievable Magnussen getting points with tyres that old, great drive
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The whole first corner first lap leniency is some serious nonsense. There are enough camera angles to tell whether a driver got crowded and then shoved into another driver or various jockeying took place, but Russell way overcooking T1 and hitting Sainz perpendicular is seriously poor driving

Given this weekends news, anything other than a Red Bull win wouldn't have felt right. Best driver and team combination.

 

A pity for Lewis but neither he nor Mercedes had the pace to claim they deserved it. Without the safety cars, Sainz being taken out and a bad pitstop for Max, Mercedes were looking at 4th at best.

 

Sainz had the pace this weekend and probably should have won if all things were fair

really bad luck for Sanz, doubt he would have won but sucks he got kicked by an over-eager driver tryng to out-do his team-mate, very disappointed in Russell actually.

Alsono and Vettel were really on fire today, the best 2 for me.

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USA Review

 

 

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And the race in a sentence

George isn't as good as many think. In my opinion he's among the weakest of his peers - Max, Charles, Lando, all are better, only Ocon and Gasly are weaker. Looking at them all it's clear why Max stands far above them. They're all around 24-25 but the others all make mistakes like Max used to when he was 20. Maybe it's because Max ztarted in F1 so young, maybe not, but whatever the reason Max sits comfortably alongside Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Hamilton, Fangio, Lauda et al as one of the exceptional talents whereas the rest, currently look more like they belong with the Bergers, Coulthards, Rosbergs (both) and Damon Hills of the sport.
I see Stroll is still insisting on maintaining a reputation as only being on the grid because of daddy's billions. Although trying to kill your new team mate is probably not particularly wise
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Stroll punished for causing the Alonso crash.

Drop of 3 Grid Positions in Mexico and 2 penalty points (total of 5 for the 12-month period).

I see Stroll is still insisting on maintaining a reputation as only being on the grid because of daddy's billions. Although trying to kill your new team mate is probably not particularly wise

Whilst I broadly agree, I will point out that aside from that move, Stroll had a very strong weekend, outperforming Vettel all weekend up to that point. Stroll's problem isn't a lack of talent, it's a lack of ability to consistently apply the talent he has. He's no future WDC but he has the ingredients to warrant a place on the grid, on merit, if he can just unlock the potential he has.

USA Review

 

 

Best driver: Alonso

Worst driver: Ricciardo

Best team: Red Bull

Worst team: McLaren

Best overtake: Leclerc on Perez

Worst overtake: Russell on Sainz

Best moment: Vettel vs Magnussen

Worst moment: Stroll's late move

Best thing about the race: Turned out decent in the end

Worst thing about the race: Sainz being taken out and Leclerc having a grid penalty took away the real race

 

And the race in a sentence: Red Bull clinch contructors title in fitting send off for Mateschitz

Fantastic race, those RB mechanics gave me SOME HOPE but as soon as Max got past Charles it was a case of when not if he'd pass Lewis. Definitely sprinkled some late race excitement there!

 

Best driver: Vettel [climbed all the way up to first, botched pit stop then 3 magnificent moves around the outside of T18, one of this best ever drives!]

Worst driver: Bottas [complete rookie mistake]

Best team: Red Bull [those bulls are too damn fast man!]

Worst team: Williams [but no team had an absolute stinker this time]

Best overtake: Vettel on Magnussen just edges Leclerc on Perez

Worst overtake: Latifi on Schumacher

Best moment: RB slow stop, gave us a thrilling final 20 laps or so

Worst moment: Sainz lap 1 retirement once again - this time unlucky

Best thing about the race: Thrills n' spills from lights to flag

Worst thing about the race: FIA inconsistency as per - Gasly gets immediate 5-sec pen for safety car infringement yet when it's Perez it takes 3 infringement for a pen. Magnussen gets the meatball flag every other race but they daren't wave it at Perez or George who also had similar structural damages. I could go on...

 

And the race in a sentence: Max wins number thirteen, where's everyone else been?

George isn't as good as many think. In my opinion he's among the weakest of his peers - Max, Charles, Lando, all are better, only Ocon and Gasly are weaker. Looking at them all it's clear why Max stands far above them. They're all around 24-25 but the others all make mistakes like Max used to when he was 20. Maybe it's because Max ztarted in F1 so young, maybe not, but whatever the reason Max sits comfortably alongside Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Hamilton, Fangio, Lauda et al as one of the exceptional talents whereas the rest, currently look more like they belong with the Bergers, Coulthards, Rosbergs (both) and Damon Hills of the sport.

 

He's (likely) gonna beat Lewis in his first season at Merc! After Max he's been the best driver this season imo. A few iffy weekends in the past few races doesn't detract from that mad run of top 5 finishes in the first half of the season. Only area to improve is definitely wheel to wheel combat - and whilst the pen on Sainz this weekend is fair it's lap 1 turn 1 and these things can happen.

 

You're right about Max though, scary to think how many titles he'll up on - it's all down to whether Merc can challenge next season cos if it's only Ferrari with a similarly fast car, then we might as well give Max his third title in Bahrain.

He's (likely) gonna beat Lewis in his first season at Merc!

That's not the full story though. Lewis spent the first half of the season running experimental set ups to try to understand the problems the car has, many of which simply didn't work. Lewis also had more bad luck early on. Since Canada where the team pretty much began to run identical car configurations Lewis has beaten George on 8/11 occasions with both retiring once (and both at fault for their retirements).

Russell has become the disappointment of the season for me

Once again, he is incapable of measuring how to brake, irremediably damaging the race of a rival. He's becoming more dangerous than Magnussen lol

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The Mexican Grand Prix will be on the F1 calendar until at least 2025 after a new contract was announced with the sport.

 

The news was confirmed via the Mexican Grand Prix Twitter account which tweeted that the race will stay after an agreement with the Government of Ciudad de México (Mexico City).

As expected, Fernanado Alonso's 7th place finish at COTA has been reinstated following Alpine's successful appeal.

 

Haas lodged their complaint over his 'unsafe' car after the permitted time frame.

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