AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2022

Free Practice 1

• Ugh it’s an experimental weekend

• Lando has to stop because his car is smoking under his seat and it’s on fire soooo

• Red flag for a Haas losing some kind of ribbon thing that looks like a snake but it turns out it was part of the track all along?

Qualifying

• Out in Q1: ricciardo, Vettel, Stroll, Zhou, Latifi

• Lando is having a really hard time braking and keeps going over the exit of a turn and says he’s scared to hit there brakes because of how hard it is to control the McLaren

• Out in Q2: Gasly, Albon, Bottas, Tsunoda, Norris

• Perez under investigation for being out of bounds for a lap in q2 that allowed h him to get into Q3 so probably a penalty coming

• HAMILTON CRASHES by a mistake all his own and is totally fine and goes into the wall so it’s great because he just made a mistake like any other human being and he’s going to have to own that and it’s GREAT, it finally came true

• GEORGE RUSSELL ALSO CRASHES and now both Mercedes have crashed out of qualifying!! They both just crashed by themselves!! I am so sad for George but SO HAPPY that Mercedes is having a horrible day!!

• Now George is being investigated for entering the track without permission for crossing the track to walk back to the pits and it’s RIDICULOUS

• MAX ON POLE! And Charles in second!! And Sainz in third meh

Free practice 2

• not a lot to report, Seb lost a little bit of car, Charles made a mistake and could see that it was on the big tv screen while they were doing an onboard and commented on that

Sprint race

• Perez demoted for start position for exceeding track limits

• Alpine failed to take the tire blankets on Alonso’s car before the formation lap because of an electrical problem so they have to wheel him off to the grid

• Zhou’s car turns off on the last corner of the formation lap and causes a SECOND formation lap, I don’t know what’s going on but there is weirdness right now ???

• Alonso can’t start from a mechanical problem

• Zhou does start from pit lane

• Max keeps the lead, somehow Sainz gets past Charles in to second but then Charles immediately takes it back

• Gasly in a first corner collision and turns out it was Hamilton getting pinched

• Albon and a Norris incident noted where Alby pushed Norris of the track a bit

• Sainz is going after Charles like crazy and it’s super dangerous and I think it’s because he is dangerously overconfident after the stupid race win last week and it’s making both Ferraris slower and I hate it

• Albon gets a five second time penalty for the Norris incident even though I thought Albon gave the place back

• Sergio does an amazing pass on lil Schu

• Oh NO Seb is reversing out of the gravel after a small touch with Alby, completely crazy

• Hahahaha Hamilton CANNOT get past the Haas of Mick Schumacher and it’s so beautiful

• Aww Hamilton does get Lil Schu with only a couple laps left

• Vettel has to box on the last lap with damage

• Max wins the sprint!!

Race

• there is so much roaring and orange smoke that the cameras can barely get shots of the car!

• They’re saying that some of the fans have behaved deplorably? What’s that about

• Max keeps lead, Charles keeps second!

• Perez fighting George for fourth and then tries to go around the outside and gets punted into the gravel and gets a big hole in his side pod but keeps going and is dead last NOOO

• Tsunoda and Albon noted for possible starting procedure infringement and then they say it was fine

• Hahahah this orange smoke is so thick it’s making it so hard to see

• George gets a five second time penalty for causing a collision with Perez

• Charles is giving Maxy a true run for the lead!!

• So many drivers getting track limit warnings

• Charles gets the lead!

• 26/71 they have to retire Perez for damage NOO

• Gasly gets a 5 second penalty for track limits

• Norris gets 5 second time penalty for track limits

• 40/71 Seb goes off into the gravel when Gasly hit him and then dangerously reverses back on the track

• 5 second penalty for Gasly causing collision with Seb

• CARLOS CAR BLOWS and he has a REALLY SCARY INCIDENT parking by the Marshalls and it’s on an uphill slope and doesn’t have a brake on so it’s ROLLING AWAY and ON FIRE and the fire is spreading quickly and the Marshalls are taking their time getting over there and thank God they get Sainz out in time but it’s a real emergency cluster and now what does that mean for Charles in the lead

• ALONSO WAGS HIS FINGER AT YUKI to tell him off

• CHARLES REPORTS PROBLEMS WITH THE THROTTLE

• CHAOS

• NOW it seems Charles is having to pull the pedal back with his foot every time he presses it!! THIS CANT BE

• Charles has only a couple laps left and Max is catching and Charles car is refusing downshifts and he is still having to pull back the pedal to control the downshifts and will this be a repeat of 2019 Austria when Max passed Charles in the last couple laps, WHAT IS HAPPENING

• Potential release in unsafe conditions for Alonso?

• CHARLES WINS!!!! Max in second!! So much orange smoke goi t off and it’s beautiful

• Both Haas getting points, second weekend in the row for points for lil Schu

• Ugh Hamilton in third