That was a pretty good race, bit of a slow burn but we got a really tense few laps at the end with Piastri chasing and Norris holding off - with direct championship implications to boot. Despite the usual lap one from Norris he recovered really well, though perhaps aided by ending up on the more favourable one-stop strategy. It was a good audible from the team and well driven by Norris to bring it home.

I always like when all three compounds are in play, though starting on the softs today maybe wasn’t really the play. It was interesting seeing the strategy split, and lots of teams seemed to fail to identify the one-stop.

Alonso drove a really good race, good start and great race management with both being the train conductor early on and saving tires to managing his pace throughout the last stint. There was nothing more than 5th on the table today and the team did everything they could to secure it.

Also good on Stroll for bringing home 7th, though overtaking is hard enough here that he just needed to not make any major mistakes and ride the correct strategy home. Both him and Alonso laid the groundwork yesterday in qualy, but fair play to them nonetheless. The Aston did seem really suited to this track, but I hope the team learns something from it.

I feel for Leclerc, he had a genuine shot at a win - but of course his Ferrari has an issue with the chassis and started bleeding performance. Time to post the depressed Leclerc meme again, I guess? Though at the moment it’s a depression competition with Hamilton.

Good race by Russel picking up the scraps though, again in the colder temperatures the Merc looks better and even Antonelli had a bit of a recovery drive too getting a point in the end. Probably not enough to give him his confidence back but it’s a spark of life?

Special shout-out to Colapinto who got omega-fucked by some Alpine^TM pitstops. Poor guy, his pace wasn’t even bad.

I want to give DotD to Alonso but that could be my bias.