Lando needs to sort those starts, he's absolutely throwing it all away in those first 200m or so to turn 1.
Oscar is loving it.
Lawson runs the risk of having been reserve driver for too long and new talent coming through. Red Bull look to have secured him mostly so he can't go anywhere else. It's been many years of this. Even if he's free at the end of the year there still needs to be another team willing to take him on.
To his credit he's done all he can do and carried himself well when the opportunities to show himself off have presented themselves, but in this sport timing is everything. It's like the boomer logic of stay in a job and they'll promote you regularly, which can only actually happen when someone up above leaves, and even then it's not guaranteed.
Has been a real season of swings in form. Mercedes are looking really good now, like they're understanding their car better. McLaren I fear have been caught up and you have to say have not actually maximised their early opportunities as best they could with that car and their general level of strategy skill. Will be interesting to see how they all fare after the break and what the new settling order is.
Hamilton, dude bad time to leave Mercedes. Hindsight is a wonderful thing though, but heading to Ferrari for a few years when it was clear Mercedes had missed the boat on the new regs would have been a smarter move. Now the regs are slowing and teams are levelling out, Mercedes is looking much better than Ferrari. And on that note I rate Sainz over LeClerc now to be honest, with LeClerc better over a single lap but Sainz contributing more to the team and strategy over the race.