lots of shenanigans but it came down to lewis behind seb but on fresh soft tyres vs seb's mediums with 30 laps to go, so lewis needed to pass him and then stay ahead until the end despite going half the race on softs. passed him after 4 laps of chasing and managed to stumble home
one of my earliest memories is watching cars go round that big hairpin thing with murray walker shouting his head off
ferrari look the strongest right now although i'm sure the mercs will put up a fight
jenson (standing in for alonso who is off doing yankcars) has a 15 place grid penalty for an engine change, which is a shame since this is probably one of only three tracks which mclaren have a chance at scoring decent points on
red bulls unfortunately dont look up to it
lance stroll put his williams into the wall in practise again
supposedly they can do the whole race on the ultra soft tyres, so i wonder if lewis will start on supers and then pit lap 1 to get the change out of the way and (assuming they get the car sorted) hoover up a load of places while in clean air
alonso retired with about 85% of the race done, drove well and was leading for much of the early part. was in 7th and passing people when his honda engine blew up and appears to have had a shot at the win altho i dunno how likely