There are a few certainties in life. Death. Taxes. Ferrari being incapable doing strategy. These are the reliable things which we base our lives around, the things that ground us and assure us that the world, as we know it, will continue to turn. That was the world we knew. What a sweet and innocent time it was.
Join Rian McDonnell and F1 novice Joe Molloy as they stumble and joke their way through each round of the Formula 1 World Championship.
Yet another busy week for drivers market news as two more seats were locked in for the 2019 season. Williams confirmed that George Russel would be joining the team, while Sergio Pérez was a little less than cryptic about the news that he was staying with the soon-to-be-renamed Force India team.
In other definitely not at all obvious news, Lawrence Stroll is a fairly wealthy man. Meanwhile, the future of his son Lance in F1 is complete mystery.
Qualifying rolled around, and without a doubt the funniest tweet of the day went to CoTA itself. Seeing Verstappen’s afternoon coming to a premature end as he broke his suspension on a kerb suspiciously similar to the ones the circuit had tweeted about earlier in the week. To the person running the account, whoever you are, bravo.
As we pointed out on the podcast this week, we couldn’t pay as much attention to the midfield as they deserved this week because of the amazing racing happening up front. But if you’re still looking for more great racing you may not have seen because it wasn’t happening in the top quarter of the grid, the Formula 1-point-5 subreddit seems like a great place to start.
The race eventually rolled around, and with depressing predictability Daniel Ricciardo’s race ended early, He reacted appropriately.
Like a drunk passing out in a community hall and waking up in time for the AA meeting the next morning (don’t drink & drive kids), Ferrari stumbled into the correct strategy at Circuit of The Americas, and life as we knew it ceased to exist. We don’t have any link in particular to relate to this fact, it’s just something worth pointing out.
When all was said and done, Kimi Räikkönen won his first race in 113 races (not years, but thanks anyway Crofty). His interviews afterwards reminded us all why we call hime the Ice Man. Heaven forbid that one might show emotion after smashing both records and expectations…
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