Looks a track that's fun to drive but not so much watch a race at. Spoiler According to the Race it was a perfect storm. Pirelli opting for the hard compounds with the track temperature being in the 30s all weekend. It meant teams with great tyre management struggled to get them to switch on leading to sliding and overheating the surface resulting in having to hold back to bring temperatures under control. Teams also ran fairly low drag rear wings for speed on the straights and the low speeds corners doesn't really benefit from large rear wings. Being able to generate heat internally heating the tyre properly then keeping the tyre in the window was key. Notably McLaren's aero inefficiency helped in this regard as they naturally work the tyres that bit harder. Red Bull could get them switched on but it took a few careful laps to get them into the window but it took a few laps and further management not pushing too hard that the tyre surface became a problem and not going too slow that the tyre lost grip and started to slide again causing overheating.
It got pretty tense towards the end, lando could have had him if it wasn't for those couple of wobbles that dropped him back by half a second or so.
Looks like they've had enough of each other and interesting that he hasn't announced another deal so would assume (for now) that he is leaving F1. I wouldn't touch him as a team principal - way too much drama.
Not too many options for him in F1... 1 year deal at Sauber (with no certainty for 2026 when the team becomes Audi) Go to Williams as a replacement for Sargeant who looks like he might get kicked out Replacing Hulk at Haas So I guess Ocon going to be off to the F1 retirement home that is Formula E.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...d-featuring-more-agile.75qJiYOHXgeJqsVQtDr2UB look forward to it making no meaningful difference to proceedings
One of the best races this year. Spoiler Max was telling fibs on the radio - his suspension was fine. It was plainly a ruse to get those behind him to push too hard at a transitional point in the track conditions, and it kinda worked - Russell proved that.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/alpine-could-abandon-renault-engines-and-become-f1-customer-team-in-2026/10624339/ So Renault don't want use Renault engines... Enstone is cursed... Renault should just sell their spot on the grid to andretti and be done with it...
