Is The Lewis Hamilton And Fernando Alonso Dynamic Not Just Mr Turner And Dinkleberg On A Less Cartoony

Oscar managing to place P10 despite having two incidents, a 10 second penalty and pitting like 3 times is insane actually. The trend of his feats being overshadowed by other events continues I guess 😭

I’ll just post this now before I decide that I need to edit it anymore

The race weekend so far

Missed the qualifying session for Jeddah? Can't watch it? Here's a summary of what happened:

Q1 + Pre-Quali

Zhou Guanyu will start P20 after a crash in FP3. Although the car was fixed with a minute to go in Q3, he didn't manage to pass the checkered flag and set a lap-time.

Carlos Sainz gets appendicitis, manages to get P7 in FP2 but takes a break for FP3 and Quali (and the GP too).

Ollie Bearman, who takes pole in F2 after qualifying P19 in Bahrain, gets called in as his replacement for the weekend and manages to get into Q2!

Verstappen sets fastest sector 1 in Q1, Stroll sets fastest middle sector and Bearman sets fastest sector 3.

Eliminated: Bottas, Ocon, Gasly, Sargent, Zhou (a repeat of Bahrain, basically)

Q2

Alex Albon, the only driver in Q2 without a teammate, on used softs

Hulkenberg loses power and stops by the track, a yellow flag is called

Alonso Fastest sector 1 and 2, Verstappen fastest sector 3 (both on new, soft tires)

Tsunoda outqualifies Ricciardo by half a second

Bearman, Albon, Magnussen, Ricciardo and Hulkenberg are eliminated, setting P11-15 for the GP in that order

Q3

Tsunoda and Leclerc without teammates in Q3

Verstappen fastest sector 1, 2 AND 3

Leclerc says the car "feels weird on new tires...difficult to drive"

Max Verstappen takes pole position again, his first ever pole at Jeddah but not likely to be his last. It's also his 34th pole ever.

Leclerc three-tenths behind him gets to start the race in P2. They share pole-P2 in qualifying for the fifth race in a row.

Perez comes in third fastest, Alonso fourth

5-10th fastest is set by Piastri, Norriss, Russell, Hamilton, Tsunoda and Stroll (in that order)

It wasn't a Max or Lando win, but a secret third option (a George Russell win)

In case you haven't seen it already: The Bahrain and Saudi Arabia GP will be held on Saturday NOT Sunday!! Unless you're Australian like me. Then they're on Sunday... 2am/4am 🥲🥲

Re-read Daniel's players' tribute article from 2018 and I just hope he knows that he achieved this and so much more

Sky sports just straight up talking about how Sauber hasn't scored a single point and how their current changes haven't paid off as they're RIGHT OUTSIDE their garage... it's kind of depressing to watch atp I hope Zhou gets a point tomorrow

Guys. Hey. Wydm George's car was underweight. Guys.

Daniel Ricciardo's "I respect him as a driver and a person" VS Mark Webber's "while he respected me as a driver...he had no respect for me as a person"

Something something RBR Aussies and their younger multiple time WDC winner teammates