BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2022

Free practice 1

• WOW SO MUCH HAPPENED over the summer break including Seb announcing retiring, then Alonso leaving Alpine for Aston Martin to take Seb’s spot, then Alpine announcing their reserve driver Oscar Piastri as their driver for next year, then Oscar going on social media to say he will NOT be driving for Alpine next year, then Alpine insisting he has to contractually, then rumors he was going to go to McLaren to replace Daniel Ricciardo and then just no news until a couple days ago when Daniel announced he is leaving Mclaren and his future being uncertain now

• Back at Spa and it’s rainy again after last year when the race when rained out

• Liam Lawson is in for Gasly in Alpha Tauri! Yay Liam!!

• Red flag because Kevin stopped on the straight cause his car died

Free Practice 2

• nothing happened here EXCEPT they played an interview with Otmar basically roasting Oscar Piastri for having no integrity and saying he wished he had shown more maturity and stuff about the contract stuff and it was shockingly mean

Free Practice 3

• Charles goes into the gravel and they throw a red very quickly but he didn’t actually damage the car

Qualifying

• delay to start for barrier repairs from Porsche supercup crash

• Out in Q1: Vettel, Latifi, Magnussen, Tsunoda, and Bot? That’s super weird that Bot got out cause that never happens

• Out in Q2: Daniel, Gasly, Zhou, Stroll, Lil Schu

• Ferrari put Charles on the wrong tires and now he can’t tow Sainz and it’s ANOTHER unforced Ferrari strategy error and this is ruining his quali and fortunately he was already going to start with penalties so it won’t be that bad but still.

• Max gets pole technically but will start at back for penalties, so Sainz has a terrible lap but is still on pole after getting second because of Max’s penalties

• It’s literally too confusing to write down the starting order because the penalties

Race

• Perez has a terrible start and drops back from second so Sainz in first then Alonso and Hamilton AND THRN HAMILTON DRIVES INTO ALONSO and HAMILTON HAS TO RETIRE YAYAAYAYYYYYY! Hamilton really got tossed in the air and it was entirely his own fault

• Then Latifi nearly takes out Ocon after dipping a tire but then DOES plough into Bottas and Bottas is beached and has to retire and SAFETY CAR

• Alonso gets on the radio and calls Hamilton an idiot and says he doesn’t know how to race except from the front

• No further investigation for Hamilton and Alonso which means it was Hamilton’s fault and everyone knows it

• Martin says the blame was 100% Hamilton for the collision

• Sainz has a lockup on the start but Perez has not been on the attack well from second so Sainz keeps the lead

• Charles reports a problem with front right and it might have been a weird puncture so they put him during the safety car

• Maxy is FLYING through the field and by lap 8 he is 3rd after starting at the back!! Charles is trying to move up through the field

• Sergio really didn’t leave a space when he was blocking Charles and they touched and it was weird cause it was kind of dirty by Sergio

• 18/44 Max passes Sainz for the lead!! Ahhh Max is having an awesome race!!

• They pit Charles before the last lap to try and get the fastest lap but it was a TERRIBLE idea because they timed it terribly and released him into Alonso and then he had to just try and get back past Alonso for the whole last lap and he didn’t get fastest lap anyway and THEN they said that apparently he sped in the pit lane for the unnecessary stop and gave him a five second time penalty so he finished one position behind than he would have and it cost him 2 points overall and they didn’t give anyone else a penalty for anything the whole race so

• Max has a little slide in the way to the finish line and when watching in the break room he was laughing at it

• Max wins!!! Beautiful race from him!! Then Perez in second and Sainz in third

HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 2022

This race was so disappointing for George but even more so for Charles that by the last laps drama, it was just exhausting. It was an eventful race, but was weirdly quiet. to me. Another classic Ferrari destroying the race for themselves situation. This was just so typical. Happy that Max won from p10 though! Max is sooo happy with this win he did not expect and that is so sweet.

Free Practice 1 and 2 were incredibly uneventful

Free Practice 3

- before this weekend, Seb got an Instagram account for the first time only to announce he’s retiring at the end of the season

- This session is super rainy

- Charles does another perfect 360 spin in the rain and it’s SO impressive

- Seb crashes and red flags, it’s just wet out there still

- Seb has a tiny Lego version of himself on his helmet

Qualifying

- WOW those are some dark and scary storm clouds

- Out in Q1: Yuki, Albon, Seb, Gasly, and Latifi lol

- Out in Q2: Perez, Zhou, Magnussen, Stroll, Lil Schu

- Perez got out because Kevin blocked him

- Max reports no power in the last 2 minutes and they can’t fix it so he will start 10th!! A shocking qualifying for Red Bull

- It looked like Sainz is gonna get pole which was going to make me mad with Charles in second BUT THEN GEORGE puts in a great consistent all green lap and GETS HIS FIRST POLE and Hamilton pits so he isn’t gonna start near the top and it’s so great for George, he is so happy!!

Race

- ahhh it’s overcast and drizzling

- The Red Bulls changed their mguk after problems but no penalties

- The Red Bulls are slow getting away for the formation lap… so that’s worrying

- George retains the lead after both Ferraris super challenge him, but weirdly neither Red Bull is able to get a lot of positions made up so they’re still in 8 and 9 by the end of lap 1

- Virtual safety car for debris from Stroll colliding with Albon

- A number of cars had small contact incidents on the first lap, first few corners, including Seb, Albon, Stroll, and Kevin

- Alonso is furious at Ocon for getting majorly in his way on the start and says never in his life have I seen a defense like that

- 4/70 Perez reports a strange noise from the engine at high gears but they say they checked it and it’s okay

- Black and orange flag to have Kevin pit so he can get rid of damage

- Lovely moves from Max biding his time passing both Alpines

- 13/70 Max reports clutch slip issue, they give him a fail code to follow, but that is very frustrating

- Both Russell and Sainz have slow stops. Ferrari could have benefited from Russell’s slow stop but of course Ferrari ruined it by also having a slow stop themselves

- Charles over cuts Sainz in the pit stop! Now Charles is second and has had way more pace than Sainz this whole race

- 24/60 Ok Ocon gets MAJORLY in Alonso’s way AGAIN and everyone knows that Alonso has got to be furious and in the squabble, Daniel gets past them into 10th

- 31/70 Charles passes George for the lead!! Some great racing from the both of them and Charles did an awesome move to get by

- 33/70 Max reports it’s drizzling more now

- 35/70 Yuki has a ridiculous spin in the middle of the track, come on

- Red Bull gets George with a double undercut so Russell is behind

- 40/70 Ferrari pits Charles and puts him on HARD TIRES which has been TERRIBLE for everyone this whole time AND right as it’s starting to drizzle and get slippery

- Max gets past Charles

- 43/70 max has a bizarre 360 spin on a slippery part of the track and perfectly recovers it but it was weird, so now Charles is ahead again

- 45/70 Max gets past Charles again because the tires Ferrari put on Charles are soooooooo awful, so usual Ferrari

- Ferrari has another 5 second stop for Sainz

- Daniel hits Stroll on a corner and will probably get a penalty

- Ughhh then it becomes Hamilton in third and second squabble and of course Hamilton gets second because I am sure the team ensured that and toto has this little smile, ugh

- Now it’s reported rain coming on the last lap

- I am so done at this point, somehow it has become a Hamilton praise sorry

- Bottas pulls over with no power and triggers a virtual safety car which neutralizes the end of the race

- Charles radios "is the car okay?" Like he hears a problem which he probably does but of course ferrari says yes of course ugh

- Real rain arrives in the last lap

- Max wins! P10 to P1. Then Hamilton, then Russell, Sainz, Perez, Leclerc. And Charles was the fastest one out there but Ferrari just ruined it for him again. They are breaking his spirit and it is horrible to watch

FRENCH GRAND PRIX 2022

This race was surprisingly dramatic for the French Grand Prix. Very typical Ferrari just throwing away everything, one with a mechanical failure and the other with just strategy nonsense. Max had a quiet race at front and they were talking to the start how Hamilton could challenge Max at front and, of course, that never happened.

The big story was Charles crashing from the lead and I don’t care what they say, I know it was not just Charles failure but a mechanical failure. Especially when you looked at what happened last race for Ferrari. Goodness. This race was exhausting.

Charles screaming “NOOOO” into his radio will haunt me forever. This should never have happened to him.

If I had to liken Ferrari to a movie, it would be Titanic. Grand, expensive, impressive, historic, but it ends the same way every time. Honestly, it’s too nice to call them Titanic.

Practice 1

- Nyck DeVries in the Mercedes test driving for Hamilton! Hamilton waiting around in the back off the garage, Ted complaining we’ve never seen this before hahaha

- Perez has a wind produced spin

- Curbs really giving people problems

Practice 2

- little schu almost goes into the barrier and it’s dramatic with a lot of dust coming up but he saves it

- Nyck DeVries is in the commentary box

- Pierre really upset about traffic, looked like an Alpine?

Free Practice 3

- Sainz will start with a 10 place grid penalty for new parts

- Both Sainz and Kevin will start at the back of the grid for engine penalties and new parts

- This bump at turn 5 is ridiculous

- Lil Schu got majorly in the way of Maxy and he was not happy

Qualifying

- Albon has a spin at the last minute in Q1 and ruins Hamilton’s lap and both Mercedes’ were at risk any way so here’s hoping

- Lil Schu got out of Q1 but then had the lap deleted and got into the bottom 5 for it

- Daniel also had a lap deleted but managed to stay in

- Out in Q1: Gasly, Stroll, Zhou, Lil Schu and Latifi

- Controversy about whether Lil Schu actually crossed the line to get his time deleted but the fia are sticking to it

- Out in q2: ricciardo, Ocon, Bottas, Seb and Albon

- Charles on pole!! Max in second and Perez in third! Then hamilton, Norris and Russell

Race

- ughhh they’re going on about Hamilton’s 300th race blahhhhh

- Charles KEEPS lead and max in second and ugh Hamilton gets into third

- Ughhhh Yuki spins and yellow flags it it was an Ocon hitting a curb and hitting Tsunoda, soooo typical

- Ok Sainz didn’t do anything on the start and by the end of the first lap he’s still in 19th

- Somehow Alonso raced his way up to top 5 on the opening corner honestly

- 5 second time penalty for Ocon for causing a collision hahaha

- First laps are all about when Max will pass Charles

- 8/53 second track limits warning for Perez

- 17/53 Max pits first and has a good stop

- So far this has been all about tire temps

- This race is exactly what I thought would happen so far, ie the commentators going on and on about Sainz racing his way up from the back

- 18/53 CHARLES CRASHES AT 100 mph AT LE BEAUSET AND HE IS IN THE BARRIER AND HE WAS LEADING THE RACE AND HE IS OUT OF THE RACE NOW, and it was 100% something wrong with the car and nobody knows for sure what the problem was yet but it sounds like the throttle jammed JUST LIKE WHAT HE STRUGGLED WITH AT THE END OF LAST RACE which means FERRARI HASNT FIXED THE PROBLEM

- This is the most heartbreaking, horrifying moment for Charles

- Max saw the crash and radioed in "is he ok?" And they tell him yes Charles is ok

- When they radio to Charles, he is yelling about the throttle and then like a full minute of him breathing super hard and the team asks several times if he is ok and he doesn’t respond and then he just screams "NOOOOOOOOOO"

- This is so horrible for Charles, you just can’t imagine

- Yuki also retires from ocon’s hit

- 21/53 safety car in and green flag

- 23/53 contact between Zhou and Lil Schu so brief yellow flag and under investigation and looks like Zhou just clipped Schumacher

- HA now as if things aren’t horrifying enough for Ferrari, Sainz also gets a 5 second time penalty for an unsafe release under the safety car hahahah

- Then they report the wrong penalty to Sainz as being a 5 second stop and go penalty when it’s only 5 seconds and he’s like it isn’t a stop and go and they’re like oh you’re right

- Yep 5 second time penalty for Zhou

- 32/53 Hamilton goes off track briefly

- 36/53 they give Stroll info and he’s like "yes yes yes leave me alone"

- 38/53 Kevin sort of hits Latifi while Latifi is trying to pass him and then it’s kind of ugly driving and then looks like eventually Kevin has to pit and retire

- 41/53 Sainz wants to stop to try and catch the top 3 but the team is like no and even Paul is like he’s never gonna catch them in time I’d be pits now, I don’t know what he’s thinking

- AND THEN Ferrari tells him to pit WHILE SAINZ is actually passing Perez and trying to pull over an overtake

- 42/53

- George Russell hits Perez on a corner and there’s contact and Perez gets back into the race without the going around the bollards

- THEN ON THE NEXT LAP they pit Sainz when he just did the overtake in Perez and now he’s back in 9th and Ferrari just threw away a third and everyone is like WHAT IS FERRARI DOING?? This is literally just SUCH A TYPICAL FERRARI RACE, literally no idea what they are doing as always

- They interview Charles and he says it was his mistake, taking full blame like he always does. Ugh it’s so painful because I know it wasn’t just him and this is truly devastating

- 49/53 Zhou stops at the side of the track to retire and it triggers a virtual safety car

- At the end of the safety car and at the restart, George gets past Perez for third!! A great pass

- George and Perez are going at it for the last laps and it’s super dramatic

- Possibly Seb hits lance in the last corner of the last lap? But it’s just a little contact, after this crazy race it just feels like yep add it to the list

- Maxy wins!! Hamilton in second ugh, and Russell in third and Perez close behind in fourth and Sainz in fifth with Ferrari throwing away fourth with their strategy

- Ughhhhh now they are going on about how it’s the first double Mercedes podium of this year and that is so exhausting

- Ok someone in the commentary box didn’t know their mic was on because as David Coulthard was asking Max a zillion long questions, you just heard someone say "STOP TALKING"

- AHA!! In the cooldown room, George was watching the replay of Charles crashing and Lewis was like "he did a mistake" and then the red Bull engineer who was in there with them (max wasn’t in there yet) said that Ferrari said over the radio that it was "throttle blockage" SEE I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT WASNT JUST A CHARLES MISTAKE, even though he took the full blame for it and said it was his mistake only, IT WAS FERRARI AGAIN AND WE ALL KNOW THIS

- Suspiciously after the Red Bull guy says what Ferrari really said, the sound completely went out CONSPIRACY

- For some reason, Lewis is laying down in the floor in the cooldown room, I mean what is going on. It’s hot outside but not that hot