Podium robots performed better than Ferrari today

Any more performances like that and Daddy will have to fire Perez and hire someone worse to prevent his boy being shown up

"Red Bull are looking closer to Mercedes than in recent years" - wtf is Crofty smoking? Mercedes could clean up this year

Podium robots performed better than Ferrari today

and yet Hamilton says it was a very difficult race

Stewards have deemed it admissible. Parts of the Racing Point and Mercedes cars will be sealed.

To clarify, this is the 2019 Mercedes - specifically the brake ducts

I still think it won't go anywhere, mainly because it would potentially implicate Mercedes - unless the FIA are keen to level the playing field...

Worth remembering that it was Racing Point who successfully protested against Renault's brakes last year

Albon, Sainz, Kvyat are not as bad a driver as that car makes them look
When you have all these drivers doing the same thing in your 2nd car, maybe the problem isn't the drivers, its on you.

This is something I can't work out. In the past, Red Bull have been able to produce two decent cars. Webber picked up a lot of wins in the Vettel era. Ricciardo did very well against Vettel and Max. It's only the last couple of seasons that one of their drivers has been massively off the pace. Either the team is so focused on Max and the second car isn't as competitive, or Max is just incredibly fast.

I have to admit that I didn't like Max when he first came into F1. More recently, I think he genuinely has developed into one of the fastest drivers on the grid, and Albon or Gasly wouldn't be able to keep up whether they had the same car or not. (I could be wrong; the second car may just suck).

That IS a 2019 Mercedes, no doubt. It has the same problems with tyres sometimes,and same speed and advantages.
And it should be illegal.

I was listening to the Beyond the Grid episode with Heikki Kovalainen this week and he basically dismissed any idea that there was favouritism towards Lewis in McLaren in 2008-09. I get the impression this might be a fairly frequent occurrence - if you've got a super-fast driver like Lewis and Max, they're just plain faster, and then that erodes the confidence of the second driver so it ends up just spiralling. You see it with Bottas too, who is by all accounts a very quick driver but just lacks the confidence and consistency to reach a high level in every race like Lewis. I don't think he or Albon are receiving substantially worse treatment in the garage - I think it's more that Lewis and Max are just incredibly talented. For what it's worth, I was a bit disappointed with Albon's pace but at the same time, it's easy to forget that Gasly was all over the place in most of his races for Red Bull last year - 4th is a solid result by comparison

It's funny but through learning all of this and with Lewis' successes in his career continuing to mount up, my opinion of Rosberg has gone much higher. It just underlines what an incredible job he did in being so consistent while driving in the same team as one of the best drivers ever. He must have had incredible resilience to keep coming back race after race and somehow still be somewhere close to or even above Lewis' level. It just shows how massively underrated he is