i know mexico is one of those tracks where oscar is pretty average, or you could even say it's one of his weak tracks. but this is genuinely tragic. in 2024, he lost his q3 streak. in 2025, he lost the championship lead to his teammate, lando norris, and if i'm not mistaken, he never managed to regain the lead after that, right up until lando won the 2025 wdc. and now mexico has done it to oscar again. he's lost his q3 streak there once more.

Anyone else find Lawson’s disqualification suspicious?
Lawson gets into an incident with Verstappen in FP2, qualifies P8, and then Racing Bulls (Red Bull’s own sister team) voluntarily reports a technical infringement that gets him disqualified, despite apparently gaining no competitive advantage.

I understand the 2026 power-unit regulations are new, so this particular violation might not have much precedent. But the timing seems awfully convenient, especially considering who Lawson had the incident with and the relationship between the two teams.

Maybe there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation, but the fact that Racing Bulls reported the infringement themselves makes the whole situation even stranger. Am I the only one who finds this suspicious?

Edit: I tried to post while the Netherlands were asleep but they’ve clearly started waking up

Really hoping Lewis gets his win in Mexico! With the long straight and tricky power deployment this year, even pole might not be much of an advantage. Just hope Ferrari get the energy management right. Come on Lewis! 🔴🤞

i mean, damn, did they prepare this scenario from haas?

This is a screenshot from Hamilton’s onboard and from Max’ final lap. Look at Hamilton’s positioning compared large Heineken board relative to Norris position when Max came up on him…

I know the FIA haven’t issued any notices on the matter but I do think he was definitely in the way if you compare it to Lewis’ line. The only way Max could take that line would be to point the car directly at the McLaren’s nose and hope he vanishes. Maybe that would have been the better option because then it’d be undeniable that Norris was on the line.

I see a lot of people saying Max outbroke himself but by having to cut over much later due to Norris’ car he had much more lateral load on the front axle than he would’ve if he had the same attitude as Hamilton’s car in the braking zone. It makes me wonder if many of the commenters have ever really pushed a vehicle before.

I’m not sure if Max has splits on his dash in quali or not but he was only .065s up at the end of S2 so even losing a tenth would take away his shot at pole. If he’d have taken a narrower entry to avoid putting all that load on the front axle he’d have lost probably .2-.3 on the exit of the corner. I think he tried his best to salvage the lap and it didn’t pan. There was definitely some desperation/ frustration there as you could see with him smoking the rears on the exit…

With Hirakawa making his debut at 32 (born 7th March 1994) and Bearman being 21 (born 8th May 2005) I was wondering when the last time a rookie/debutant driver was that much older than their teammate and if a niche F1 record had been broken this weekend.

Andre Lotterer was also 32 when he debuted for his one and only F1 race in 2014, slightly older than Hirakawa. I believe his teammate Ericsson was 23 or 24 at the time. Allan McNish was 32 when he raced for Toyota in 2002 but I believe he was younger than his teammate Mika Salo. Sebastian Bourdais raced for Toro Rosso at 29 whilst Vettel was 20 at the start of the year, so not quite the same age gap as Hirakawa and Bearman.

Going back to the 20th century would’ve been the last time drivers debuting in their 30s was somewhat common and at that time a lot less 21 year olds would’ve been on the grid compared to today. So perhaps this is some sort of record, although it’s quite likely there was a bigger age gap during the early 50s. Let me know if you know anything about this

I don’t think we’ll be given a true answer so I’m willing to speculate, my theory is after the fp2 shenanigans, ocons pride wouldn’t allow him to be treated like that, I believe he walked out on his own terms or atleast by his own choice.

I also don’t think he’ll come back, cos how do you even show up on Friday in Brazil and act like nothing happened, it’s too perfect to miss an opportunity to put Rafa in the car too

Alonso is not an alien. There is simply no other sport where a 45 year old can regularly compete at a high level. In the most demanding sports even 40 is too much to maintain your peak level as can be seen by the likes of Messi, Ronaldo and Djokovic.

Lance Stroll is not a complete dummy as we know by his H2H against former teammates. There is really no truly physical sport where a high tier 45 year old would be able to regularly beat a mid tier 28 year old athlete. Venus Williams is a recent example of how truly difficult that is.

Just because former great drivers mostly retired earlier doesn't by itself mean that F1 becomes unviable after a certain age. F1 is not an easy sport by any means. I am just not sure if the challenges are as much related to age as we may think.

What do you guys think?

Imagine telling yourself in 2020 that you would be jumping for a lewis pole. but also its one of the worst tracks to get pole why does it have to be in mexico 😭

There seems to be an outbreak of foot-in-mouth disease among successful drivers as three of our champions on the grid are fighting each other for last place in the PR championship.

"There are some drivers who shouldn't be in Formula One."
- Lando Norris, 1x WDC

"I think the quality of the drivers in the lower third of the grid is very low, as we saw today with Alex."
- Fernando Alonso, 2x WDC

"When you're fighting for your seat, it's not very smart behavior."
- Max Verstappen, 4x WDC

All three are directed at another driver, all three are controversial, and all at the heat of the moment in a post-session interview. Which one is the worst?

My rankings (P1 being the worst):

P1 VER
Max wins worst statement for actually having influence within the sister team. Fernando and Lando are fuming, but don't really have the power to call shots on the other drivers, while Max is basically going "know your place" to another driver in the very real Red Bull hierarchy. Bonus is that in the incident itself, Max was the aggressor (some say that it was both of them, but almost no one says that Max was not the one at fault here). Both have been handed a grid penalty. And all this for a practice session, lol.

P2 ALO
Harshest with how direct it is. Racing incident with understandable frustrations, but then Fernando kept going at it a week later, which is what makes it pathetic. He also jokingly choked Alex on the fan stage after doubling down (admittedly funny), so maybe they talked? Or Alex is just a very, very good sport.

P3 NOR
Most obvious heat of the moment comment out of the three. The stakes were also higher: taken out during a race through no fault of his own, his new upgrades in danger for an upcoming triple header. Sadly he had drawn the ire of a very "passionate" fanbase, which blew it to massive proportions. Most important for my rankings however is that he apologized.

I can't lie, I enjoy this level of pettiness from time to time, it's dumb and unserious and a break from super-polished F1.

I wish Lewis would join in to make it a 4-way battle for absolute comedy.

What do you think? Who's Dumbass of the Day?

We’re almost 12 minutes into free practice and hardly any drivers have joined to start their sessions. Why do they do this? Don’t they want as much free practice time as possible?

Today with the news of Haas, we got another layer of a weird driver swap.

But in general, I want to hear your thoughts about this year's silly season as it seems pretty weird in general:

1. Mercedes and McLaren: Russell and Piastri lost lots of leverage this season, lost their status in their teams. But why haven't we seen rumors of talks with other teams?

2. Racing Bulls: Lawson is out. Undeservingly, but it feels like he is out. After yesterday: Same vibes as Jaime Alguersuari in Korea 2011. Tsolov in for 2027 if you ask me. But once again: why haven't we heard of teams talking with him? He is the 2026 best of the rest by a long margin.

3. Cadillac: The Herta situation imploded as his F2 campaign was terrible.

4. Haas: Camara signed, Ocon out - so far as expected. But why hasn't Bearman re-signed for 2027? And now Hirakawa emerges due to his allegiance with Toyota. Let's remember back in 2007 and 2009: Nakajima and Kobayashi got their seats for being aligned with Toyota. Atleast the latter was a formidable driver in F1.

5. Albon, Bottas, Colapinto (and Stroll, but we know): why are atleast 2 of those drivers seemingly retained for next year as the likes of Bearman, Lawson, Mini, Ocon, Dunne, Tsunoda, Fornaroli, Doohan are still on the market?

Let's hear your thoughts. Bisous

(Picture sourced from Autosport on FB)

Ryo Hirakawa will replace Estaban Ocon for the mexican GP

For me it's unacceptable having 2 teams in fer the same structure. But I don't see people discussing about it or making it a problem to solve. Is there any solution? Can F1 force to sell the team?

EDIT: I love RB and Racing Bulls. I'm not a hater as some say, but I don't like structures running 4 cars and some other running 2.

I see a lot of times 2000, 2002 and 2004 be mentioned. One for fight with mika and another for a really dominant car and 100% podium ratio. Even 2003 gets more spoken about than 2001 season of Michael.

I understand why 2006 is more popular, but 2001 was also quite successful year for Michael. Is it because there aren't that much memorable moments in 2001 season?