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£100 Million for 3 years.

Not bad.

He'll go to Ferrari in two and buy out the remaining year of his contract.

Why would Ferrari want him now they have Vettel? Bottas is probably coming to Maranello next

zandvoort, road america, watkins glen. instead of a chinese gp, use the old macau street circuit. i always thought a south african gp at welkom would be cool. where else? paul ricard would have been cool for a gp if toyota didnt turn it into a test center all those years ago. i am also a fan of dijon-prenois. estoril and jerez circuits are both better than valencia and circuit de catalunya.

whoa. tomorrow (edit - Saturday) it's for real, but this kid's driving today was pretty awesome

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As much as I hate to admit it, I'm fully on the side of Christian Horner, refuelling will make the races much more likely to be won on pit strategies with less on track passing.

13:00, r5l on now, predictions?

verstappen - schoolboy error

Didn't see that coming!

Not sure, he's made a lot of great passes like that, but just misread the move from Grosjean there.

interesting dynamic after hamilton pitstop

why did the team let it happen?

3 wins at monaco for rosberg

hamilton sick as a ..

Ooooof http://streamable.com/9f2k

Not unusual for driver to get caught out by others braking early on old tyres, I remember Schumacher doing the same thing a few years back in Spain.

Considering his passes so far this year (a few in China and Malaysia stick out particularly!) I don't think people should be too hard on him.

There are many opinions on this, and none are worth printing.

Those who don't like Hamilton because of his attitude, will feel the race was a fair one.

I think it was an unfortunate chain of events, but accept it is the chances they all take, after all it is racing, I feel for the lad..

That was a bit of a fuck-up on part of the team. Must be really frustrating for anyone to have a win taken away from them like that.

I did lol when he knocked over the sign at the end though.

Great work by Grosjean not allowing Verstappen through when he was blue-flagged for Vettel. Shame Max ballsed up the next attempt though, it would have been good to watch them tussle all the way to the finish.
Less dull than Spain, that's for sure!

I did lol when he knocked over the sign at the end though.

This

Hamilton's attitude is different this year - it's been different since last season in all honesty.

The former "odious little cunt" is but a distant memory. Obviously I'm not his biggest fan, but he appears to be a totally different bloke this year.

I think it's positive and, dare I say it, he's almost becoming likeable.

One of the Mercedes drivers will win the championship this year. Mercedes doesn't care which, but does care about keeping media attention. What better way than by keeping them on level pegging.
Or am I just a sad conspiracy theorist?

I have to confess that "keeping things interesting" because of the apparently terrible viewing figures globally had crossed my mind.

Oh Bernie...

They'd have to screw Lewis over a lot to ensure they're on similar points at the end of the season. If I had a hat I would eat it if Lewis isn't world champion this year.

I seem to remember Paddy Ashdown making a similar statement recently.

Relevant: https://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/latest/interviews/2015/5/in-conversation---bernie-ecclestone-and-nico-rosberg.html