MJB

30 have gone down to the final race, 43 haven't. I've put 2022 in this list assuming Max takes the title in Suzuka.

This one kicks me right in the balls. Heartwarming to see so much respect and love for an incredible competitor. Even after his playing days, he was supremely fair and enjoyable to listen to as a pundit and commentator. Massive shame and especially sad for his children and the rest of his family and friends. 52 really is no age.

Today was unacceptable. Lewis deserved that race. Forget the championship for now. Masi is a joke.

Imola and Zandvoort are stupid ideas. Bahrain, Baku, Silverstone, Monza, Austin and Interlagos should be the six. Actually, there shouldn't be any at all, but if there has to be six, it should be those.

Sir Frank Williams has passed away, aged 79. Considering his accident in 1986, it's a remarkable achievement to make it this far but still terribly sad.

Edit - nevermind.

So happy for Schmeichel. What a career he's had.

Red Bull paying the price for only having one driver in the fight. A repeat of Hungary 2019.

Turkey in June is going to be hot.

Henderson definitely offers us something different. Very much on the front foot and even the second goal came from a positive take and then a good throw out to Shaw.

Lewis Hamilton has officially signed a contract to race for Mercedes in 2021. Nothing confirmed past that, let the speculation for 2022 begin!

Newcastle are currently two down inside six minutes. Someone should probably check on @Gazz The 'offside' for the second is a particularly shite call from the assistant, especially considering he's about 6 yards behind the play when he puts his flag up.

To me, Monza was not a great race. It was a great result but not a great race. The best driver in the race was Sainz and he deserved to win when Hamilton got his penalty. Gasly drove well when out in front but he was only in that position because he was pulled in for an early stop after holding up his teammate in the opening part of the race. Before the red flag, Lewis drove away and nothing was really happening behind. Then after the restart, again nothing really happened after the first lap or two, apart from Lewis making his way back through the field. I'm absolutely against reverse grids. It's a bandage, a bit like DRS. It doesn't solve the problem, it merely covers it up for a bit. With DRS, the cars need to be able to follow closely and hopefully 2022 will see that. To stop reverse grids, the field need to be closer together, and hopefully 2022 will see that aswell. F1 has been dominated by one car in more seasons than not. Remember the MP4/4 for McLaren in 1988? The FW14B for Williams in 1992? Then you have the Ferrari's in 2002 and 2004 along with the Red Bull cars in 2011 and 2013. I'm not saying that these are more dominant than Mercedes is this year but let's not get carried away and believe that F1 has always had 6 teams who could win every weekend. 2012 is certainly the outlier in recent years, but even that was pretty much dictated by Pirelli. Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari, Lotus, Williams, Sauber, Force India and Mercedes were all quickest at one race or another but I'd still say that was more tyre related than car-performance related. When all teams got the hang of the tyres towards the end of the year, the big teams pulled away at the front. I wouldn't change qualifying much to be honest. However, I would look at maybe mixing it up at specific tracks, like Monza and especially at Bahrain on the outer loop this year. Send them out one at a time, reverse championship order, just to stop the slip streaming fiasco that will inevitably cause an accident at some point. I do like the three-part qualifying though. I'd maybe shorten the sessions, as even in Spa, 12 minutes is more than enough to get two runs in. The super-pole is an interesting idea, maybe the top three just having one lap at the end to get pole.

Yeah pretty much that's what happened. Lewis had such a lead that he was first one in for a while, Sainz and the rest also wanted to pit but their engineers realised. Mercedes realised just as Lewis came in, meaning that Bottas was told to stay out.

He is expected to pick up wins when Lewis doesn't though. Instead he's now got the same number of wins in 2020 as an Alpha Tauri.