Great race overall, probably equally as good as the Austria Sprint.
McLaren was the headliner and Norris rightly got all the plaudits for an amazing drive, but it's a shame more fuss hasn't been raised about Piastri. He would most likely have had a podium if not for the unlucky safety car and continues to show that the hype was not unwarranted. It's going to be very interesting to see what he can do in a car that can actually perform.
Aston continues to struggle, though this track was never going to be suited for them, and Stroll delivered a patented yo-yo performance by following up a solid showing in Austria by being very poor today. Alonso did what he could and displayed some great defensive positioning, but 7th was probably the best they could hope for here. Hungary should be a good track for Aston and so that's when we'll get a true measure of how far behind the pack they've fallen.
Shambolic race weekend by Ferrari, though their car seemed just awful here. Wasn't fast enough on the medium and couldn't get temps into the hards.
Not much to say about Red Bull, I feel like we've seen this race multiple times already this season from them. It was nice seeing Max at least briefly involved in battles, but otherwise it was another comfortable victory for him while Perez fucked his quali and executed an unremarkable bare-minimum recovery drive.
Shout-out to two drivers who will be forgotten this race. Gasly was doing really well until his car
did an Alpinegot Strolled, so it's unfortunate he probably won't get any credit, and finally a solid race by Sargent, but he didn't get any points so I imagine nobody will have noticed.EDIT: thanks eroc1990 for pointing out the contact with Stroll was harder than I caught live and so Stroll was probably more to blame than Alpine.
Incredible performance from both Norris and Piastri!
Albon holding off LeClerc while fighting with Alonso was something else
Really enjoyed that one. Great to see McLaren show pace like that again, makes you wonder what might have been possible if they were able to deliver this car at the start of the season. Really happy that Lando has been given a car worthy of his talent, hopefully it works well at other high-speed circuits. Also Max talking about praying Oscar didn't understeer into him as they went side by side through Copse was hilarious.
We really gotta slap a nsfw blur to these things
Some great battles in that race. Very enjoyable.
RIP Alpine
I really hope McLaren can keep this up, great performance by Oscar and Lando! Max also looked happy to see a fresh face next to him on the podium.
So happy for McLaren and Albon. Mercs weren't too bad either tbh. Ferrari nothing to say about them, won't be long until they wouldn't finish in the top 10 lol.
Great win, very nice to see Lando doing well and got some enjoyment out of the British public having to listen to the Dutch anthem (you could feel the pain sweep over the crowd 😀)
This is my least favorite track on the calendar though so all-in-all a meh weekend F1 wise
Every time I see Max win I always think it's saying. Thax for stoppin, and letting me take first.
VER NOR HAM sounds like a cozy little German town with a great pub
Okay amazing race but this is way out line for a spoiler title and image. I’m glad I didn’t pick up my phone in the middle of watching or before I started, there are plenty of us in this community that have to watch races not live and we deserve to not have the results ruined like this. This should be a clear rules violation and the post deleted.
Fuck max but a great race. So happy for Lando and Lewis.
