The problem with saying Brazil was great, and Qatar was not the best of races is that it supports the argument that we should have reverse grids, because the artificial overtaking makes the race more exciting. If Lewis had not had the penalty at Brazil, he would of comfortably won the race, like he did at Qatar.
I enjoyed the Qatar race, plenty of overtaking and action in the midfield, but Lewis was just to quick for Max.
Bit of a silly move by Christian to call out the Marshalls in the yellow flag incident, and glad the FIA pulled him up on it, and he has gone to say sorry to the Marshall. The Marshalls give up their time for free, they are volunteers, and without them we would not be racing. I don't think the penalties made any difference to the race outcome.
Great drive by Alonso, and the VSC probably saved him. Amazing that we are still seeing tyres blow out with the hardest compound available. Mercedes were just silly keeping Bottas out for as long, but I guess there logic was to block Verstappen from pitting again. The gap Lewis had, was just so big nothing RedBull did would of closed it. The only thing that surprised me was that Max managed to set a faster race lap before the VSC, so maybe Lewis was saving his tyres for the last few laps, and the VSC blocked him from going for it?
Come the end of the season, there is going to be so many ifs and buts. If Lewis had not hit Max at Silverstone, If Max had not hit Lewis at Monza, if there was no points for Sprint Qualifying but at least all those issues are settled, the teams and drivers know what they have to do in the last two races, so while we can enjoy discussing them all, I think who ever wins will be a worthy winner.
My biggest concern is RedBull put in an appeal against Mercedes after the last race. What ever happens, it is a bad look for the sport. Clearly what ever RedBull feel Mercedes were doing, they did not think they were doing it this weekend, I am not aware of any appeals, so hopefully its just RedBull trying to put pressure on Mercedes.
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