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1980 F1 World Champion Alan Jones has died. He was the first Williams driver to win the title.

Brilliant result. A worthy champion and possibly the most universally liked since Button. Long overdue for Italy too. Bodes well for next year to. Interesting to note the Max has been the highest scoring driver since Barcelona so if RB get their car right from the off next year it could be a 5 way battle for the title.

Ferrari looking strong this weekend and arguably Charles looks to be the faster despite not hooking it up on his final run. Should be a fairly straightforward 1-2 It'll be interesting to see how they screw it up

It's a tricky one with Herta. Certainly he looks to be struggling in the F2 chassis but that series doesn't tell the whole story. Plenty of drivers have looked average in F2 or equivalent and gone on to do well enough in F1 - Albon, Perez, Bearman and even Antonelli didn't exactly set the series alight but have performed better in F1 than would be expected on that basis. Additionally, Herta has looked very good in Indycar and consistently outperformed the likes of Grosjean, Magnussen and Ericsson and whilst none of them were ever close to top tier they were all good enough. Herta's other challenge is moving to series where the driving style is markedly different from Indycar on top of having to adapt to a new way of working within the team, limited practice and qualifying opportunities on tracks that are completely new to him against a field of drivers who know them intimately. Herta's talent isn't the problem but he needs to find a way to make it show. Bottas meanwhile, looks very much a spent force in F1 and despite his experience, has never been known for his technical feedback being competent rather than excelling. Frankly, I'd be looking to move Bottas on regardless of Herta and I actually think he'd do well in Indycar

In free practice today Colton Herta completed the the required 30 laps to qualify him for a superlicense. With Perez confirmed for next year the writng could be on the wall for Bottas. He's been comprehensively outperformed by Checo across the season and Cadillac are reportedly very happy with Herta's performances in the F1 car. They had already completed the necessary number of sessions for a test driver this year so clearly Herta's run was for his points. It could well be the decision is as good as made to put him in the car next year

Just read this today and concur with everyone else. You are the most important thing. Stay safe and the results can happen whenever suits you. We can all wait. Hope you're ok

Presumably next week Kimi will win the title. This will mark the first time since the World Drivers Championship began that two different champions have indentified themselves by the indentically chosen, same forename. Kimi Antonelli and Kimi Raikonnen. Even though Antonelli's birth name is Andrea Kimi Antonelli he reserves Andrea for his personal life using Kimi as his 'racing name'. There has been Jack Brabham and Jackie Stewart (both christened John) and Jacques Villeneuve too. Also Mike Hawthorn (also a John) and Michael Schumacher. There was also Alan Jones and Alain Prost. And Jim (James) Clark and James Hunt but all of these preferred names were variants and not identical. The closest any driver has come to sharing the same birth first name as Antonelli is Niki Lauda, whose real first name was Andreas.

As it's almost certainly their last album, it's a pretty decent single to kick it off

I can see this going the same way as the Vietnam GP did. I'll wait before getting excited by the idea just yet.

@matto Thanks for allowing me in. Have sent something. Have an immediate back up too if a problem

This has already happened this year, just not a race

Bugger. Forgot to enter...

Cars have run more than once in the wet this year. Bahrain wet test session back in Feb, Ferrari ran in the wet at Fiorano too. Might have been a practice session and a pit to grid lap somewhere as well i seem to remember (Miami?) The issue was because the cars were going slower than anticipated at turn 9, which has an output limit in place for safety reasons. This will effectively nullify the MGU-K putting into 'off' mode. When they entered turn 9 too slow there was no MGU-K to compensate for the lack of boost, so the software engaged a 60 second reset. A feature designed to prevent teams shutting it off deliberately. That's why they all had to input new software, with less of a power limit and why the restart took forever. The water itself did nothing but the software was incorrect for the circuit, specifically turn 9, and the conditions on the day.

There's been nothing to suggest that the software fault was due to water but I guess the internet has decided already. It affected a number of cars and different power units and nothing similar has happened in any previous wet session. We should really be wondering if having cars too reliant and effectively controlled by computers is the right way to go.