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How i would love to be a fly on the Wall in the FI post race briefing. Perez potentially cost the team a podium today.

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Perez did what he needed to do. There was no guarantee Ocon would have passed Ricciardo.

They told it on the radio, let ocon try and if he fails we switch back

Thanks for that. That didn't get mentioned on the NBCSports broadcast, only that Perez was begging the team to allow him to continue to fight against Ricciardo.

They weren't that direct. It was worded more like a heavily hinted invitation, rather than a formal instruction, at least from the radio comms broadcasted on TV.

Perez drove like a dumb stubborn dick, but let me be clear here: not because he defended his position.

He has all the right to. But doing it in a way that makes them both lose 3 seconds to Daniel, and defending beyond harshly against his faster teammate, getting him under attack by Vettel and almost causing them to collide and take out the three of them? If it had been anybody less talented and less reasonable than Ocon in that car, all of this would've ended much more badly for Perez at different occasions. I mean, what the hell was he thinking, putting up the same defense that caused him and Massa to crash there just two years ago?

(I wondered if that was what Kyvat was swearing at on the radio, or was it just because of the penalty?).

Toro Rosso driver Daniil Kvyat described Formula 1 stewarding as a "stupid circus" after he received a double Canadian Grand Prix penalty.

Kvyat's car failed to get away at the start of the Montreal formation lap, but he then contravened F1 regulations by reclaiming his 11th position on the grid.

The rules only permit a driver slow away to return to their grid slot if they can recover all the positions by the first safety car line, otherwise they must start from the pitlane.

Kvyat was initially given a drivethrough penalty (pictured) but the stewards later announced it should have been a 10-second stop/go penalty so made him take that too.

Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost said Kvyat was only prevented from overtaking all the cars because "as all the drivers use the complete width of the track to warm-up their tyres, it was difficult for Daniil to overtake them in order to get back to his position without taking any risks" and that it was "too late for him to go into the pitlane".

"They have a job to do which is not so difficult in my opinion and they cannot do the job properly," said Kvyat.

"They were clearly sleeping today in their office, so maybe they needed some coffee there.

"They should cancel this stupid rule. Who is this rule for? Are we taxi drivers here or Formula 1 drivers?

"I don't understand this. It's a circus, a stupid fucking circus.

"I will go and talk to Charlie. It's annoying me, it's really annoying me.

"A simple job, and he can't even do that job properly.

"Maybe it's better to go in the back room because now the heat is up for me I will not want to say anything wrong to any of them and I'm not really sure it's Charlie.

"I want to understand first of all who does this job.

"All I know is our team manager was for 10 laps arguing with the FIA that we shouldn't get another additional penalty and they said 'no, sorry, we have this'."

When Kvyat took the extra 10s penalty, a wheelnut problem caused a severe pitstop delay and prompted his subsequent retirement.

So when will Pirelli start making softer tyres again? These tyres are so hard, you can do an entire race distance on super softs, that's a joke.