For all the excitement around the track, the race was... a bit boring. I really expected at least one safety car to spice things up.
Mercedes strategy let them down again.
Every race is boring to some here when Hamilton doesn't win, and you can hear the despair on the Sky commentary team when he doesn't. As he's won 1 of the last 10 races, that's a lot of boring races. Verstappen has won 6 races in that time. Not bad for someone whose mental strength and temperament for the fight was being questioned.
The missing Mexican has reacted to getting his new contract by having an extended summer siesta. He was nowhere to be seen while the Mercs were throwing everything at Max in Zandvoort, and it's not the first time either. His laziness is going to cost Red Bull the constructors crown.
After 3 years in the retirement home, Raikkonen has finally decided he has had enough of being lapped down the back of the field every race and did what he should have done when Ferrari let him go. It's now Bottas who has taken up that role. Mercedes have gone back to Williams and found another white caucasian man to fill the space. It seems like all that inclusivity and diversity propaganda merely extends to respraying the car. Hopefully Russell will be allowed to race Hamilton, not be called into the pits for mysterious "punctures" if it looks like he might finish ahead of his teammate, as happened last year.
Now the races in Northern Europe are all done for the year, it's off to Monza, the sprint qualifying is back, and the margin for error is getting narrower and narrower from this point on.
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