This one lifts the curtain of the twaddle that goes on at the Team Principles / FIA Twonks' interface. All cloak-and-dagger stuff. Avoiding broken-glass left in the carpet as a tell-tale, peeking down darkened hallways, rushing for the Exit. It must be exhausting. Yet, the FIA Twonks keep evacuating more and more rules from the bowels of Mount Olympus.

The wick of my once bright flame-of-Interest has ablated under the vapid storm of Sky Sports narrators yelling at each other with their odious prattling. Much like a corral of turkey roosters in rut.

Strange though - they are almost an afterthought. What with all the: side-bars; interviews before the race; interviews with friendly Team Principles; close-ups of pre-adolescents eating ice-cream cones. All the important stuff. And then there are the ads.

Oh, n....

It went out.

It is an excellent article - and it represents the kind of twaddle that goes on in the paddock.

I've never really seen alot of that in the WRC. PLUS - I don't need to punish my hearing by witnessing Crusty and Blunder baying like werewolves under a Blue Moon.

They are the worst. Slap me with the bill of a monotreme.

An honest-to-God journalist wrote this article. The first two sentences tell the entire story. The rest is interesting window-dressing, an interesting, fulfilling back-story. Thank you, Mr. Victor R. Lopez, for a glimpse.

Sorry, forgot - when did Crusty last soil himself in a competitive race? Or Blunder, for that matter.

I turned off the race and went to sink British ships in a really good sim called - oddly enough - "U-Boat".

Did no one else notice? The constant 84 dB piffle gushing out of Crusty's mouth, aided and abetted by Martin Blunder?

There was an eye in the Sky Sports hurricane, so to speak.

These were the moments observing Karun Chandhok providing performance and lap-analysis in succinct details. Not enough time to provide in-depth technicalities, but enough honest interpretation of events on-track and how the different drivers drove the same segment of the course. Brilliant stuff. WHY ISN'T HE NARRATING THE RACE?

Mr. Chandhok is a competitive racing driver. Often at Goodwood, always near the front.

How f1 car’s benefit road cars.
1 Ridiculously heavy
2 Ridiculously complicated
3 To many buttons to press
4 to much useless information
5 To many pointless things to go wrong
I’ve had al manner of exotic cars but one of the nicest vehicles to drive was a Honda acts van with 600cc.

Indeed. He simply didn't receive an offer anymore & thus left as his contract expired.

Well done spotting the note of sarcasm embedded in my comment lol

We often see F1 cars covered by large umbrellas, however, I've never seen an F1 car wear a weatherproof overcoat!

He has his work cut out now to show that he is the real deal and can not only win in the best car and carry the team on his back to win the World Championship.

I hope he will dig the deepest he has ever done and show his true strength. The first thing is that he has to stop winding about how difficult it all is...otherwise it's going to be a very loooong season for him with some great entertaining radio messages. Can't wait, when Ferrari is going to trow the plan A, B, C, D, E, F senarios at him. LOL

Given how well Yuki Tsunoda performed in the junior Racing Bulls car, Marko's quote is ominous. McLaren CEO Zak Brown couldn't resist a cheeky jibe:

"They seem to make some strange driver choices at Red Bull," he said. "Especially when you look at a performance like Yuki's."

Cheap digs? Whatever do you mean?

Logic says Charlie will be faster given his experience in the car but who knows.Max in the Ferrari? We will never know.

Mid to high-20s for the time being, so we'll see how Ferrari copes.

Next week will be hot, then we will see if Ferrari have built a good car and who is faster out of the 2, dyo think it will be Charlie or Lulu?

So what’s wrong with Charles the super fast qualifier?

At least Lewis kept it on the track unlike Fernando and Carlos and was less than 3 seconds behind his teammate in a new car that he had never driven in the wet before while Fernando and Sainz were embarrassing compared to their supposed inferior teammates. Just saying.

Valid point.

BUT Ferrari are expected to Win, Alpine and Vcar arent, they have probably the biggest budget, really good facilities , and a 7 times WDC onboard, i cant think all the excuses like "im still learning" will go down to well with the Media if they arent at least finishing regularly 3rd, because if this years difficult next year will be a nightmare, are we seriously saying that Max wouldn't have qualified that Ferrari higher up?

Werent we told Lucy was brilliant in the rain?, ummm must be someone else and Charlie must have been chuckling as he passed her

I was really happy to see Oscar pass Louise near the end to demote the Ferrari driver down another position! I think Eccles is right, Louise's best days are all behind him!

Agree Smokey.
As a long time F1 fan , since 1985 ,I want to watch the racing not manufactured nonsense. Never watched Drive to Survive.

Brown admitted it was a single phone call to "explore the market".

And it was a No....,. so he offered Oscar an extension, its just business, just business lol