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I think that's the only plausible reason.

Also, and I'll probably take a bit of flak for this, but I think Steve Jones will be a relatively decent presenter by the end of the season. He is settling in, and he's not afraid to take the piss out of himself when he knows so many of the fans can't stand him.

Similar thing happened with Jake Humphrey, and he ended up being pretty great.

I was starting to like Steve Jones too.

The same can't be said of F1 in general tho. Am now going two or three races without giving much of fuck what happened. Didn't watch anything of the last two races. Am def out of love with it. Meh.

Same thing with pro cycling so it may not be the broom-brooms fault. Just going though a phase where my time isn't worth the bullshit.

Jake Humphrey was a useless prick that made me but sky f1

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Not really, but Red Bulls' race pace has been advantageous, more so than their qualifying pace, so the closer they are in qualifying, the greater their race pace advantage. They have less power, but that is only one factor. They have arguably the best chassis.

http://www.espn.com.au/f1/story/_/id/17178779/daniel-ricciardo-confident-red-bull-challenge-mercedes

That's a bit harsh on Rosberg IMO.

Significant fastest lap by Ricciardo. A bit of a procession from Lewis. Some good overtaking moves throughout. Tidy drive from Jenson. A bit harsh, that penalty on Nico. How Ferrari will progress without Allison is a mystery. Maybe they have someone else in mind long term.

I wonder if Adrian Newey fancies a new challenge, and a pile of cash?

Allow working for Ferrari though.

Rosberg: "I was on full lock - I couldn't turn in any tighter"
Stewards: "Not until you'd carried straight on for most of the corner and deliberately run the other car off the track"

Basically Rosberg has form and the stewards correctly decided that he needed to stop driving like that every time someone is faster than him.

^Innit.

Even the fukin highlights send me to sleep these days.

His dad could/should give him some driving tips.
Yeah, Keke was pretty bad-ass.

Not sure, it's entirely possible he was going too quick into the corner and couldn't start turning while still full on the brakes as he'd just lock up and go into Max.

Honestly don't see the difference between that move and Lewis on Nico in Austin at turn 1.

New tyres are looking good though.

Well this is far from boring!

Christ! https://www.instagram.com/p/BJpwDGtge2o/

Never seen the headrest fly off in a crash before, pretty hefty!

Also, what on earth was Vettel doing?

Alonso definitely driver of the day so far!

Verstappen is driving like a dick. Cracking stuff tho.

He definitely needs to get hit with a penalty. With his driving at Spa and the Hungaroring, not punishing it is teaching him that it's fine. Looks like it's going to take a messy crash for something to be done about it.

I can understand him being pissed off with his start and even more with what happened immediately after, in the 1st corner. Looked like the Ferraris were looking for a messy crash as well, and Max suffered a broken front wing and car bottom from it. 'It's just racing' is the phrase, I'd say... Brilliant performance by Hamilton (I passed a large camper van on the French autoroute today with a massive - 2 meters wide - 'hammer time' text and depiction of the Merc sticker on the back, and 'F14RVA' reg, LOL)

Can understand him being pissed off at the start, not a good excuse for cutting someone off at that speed though.

He's a hugely talented driver and out of the entire field I'd definitely say he's the best on the brakes especially throwing one down the inside without a puff of smoke to be seen. However his defence is pretty lairy and is an accident waiting to happen (I'm thinking Mark Webber/Heikki Kovalainen) which is something I think we'd all rather not see.

Also, Alonso hands down driver of the day for me.

Coming from the back of the grid in a Honda at Spa to finish 7th, amazing drive. Especially keeping the Williams & Raikkonen behind at the end.

I don't think it is symptomatic of his driving and was a bit surprised too. Lauda says he should be sent to a shrink... just hope it's not his dad's temper he inherited after all. Patience and restraint, quite hard for an 18-year old.

I don't want to put the blame on Verstappen after that first corner incident. Just a racing incident. I liked that most of the grandstands were filled with his fans. Have F1 considered a new Dutch GP? Assen, Zandvoort, where else would be good?

Both good options, Assen has the same history of incredibly changeable weather that Spa has also. Can't imagine Zandvoort passing modern day F1 track standards though.

Zandvoort have started to look at their options as the infrastructure is in place. Assen isn't an option as the track is too narrow I believe.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/interviews/2016/9/hamilton-monza-interview.html

I know Lewis is not liked by some, but in this interview he talks of his dad having 4 jobs at one time, just so he could afford to race. It shows he knows what went into him getting the chance in F1.