Grand Prix Rejects

Paul Hayes

Plus I suppose they do have the added attraction of being wedded to a team-mate who is clearly no match for him.

Paul Hayes

I am quite surprised that Alonso signed up with Aston Martin when there might still have been a chance of a seat at Mercedes or Red Bull. I suppose he's gambling on their continued investment and development getting them the top team status they're aiming for, and decided this was the best bet for h...

Paul Hayes

If Bearman goes on to have a long F1 career, his having overlapped with Alonso will be a good link for those "get from now to 1950 in the fewest possible career overlaps" games. Now we can go with Maurice Trintignant - Chris Amon - Jacques Laffite - Gerhard Berger - Michael Schumacher - A...

Paul Hayes

If Red Bull were a sponsor rather than an owner, I imagine they'd be pretty pissed off that their dominating performances now merit hardly any coverage during the races! But not surprising, of course. I was very pleased for Bearman, and amused at how completely underwhelmed he sounded about the whol...

Paul Hayes

If Bearman goes on to have a long F1 career, his having overlapped with Alonso will be a good link for those "get from now to 1950 in the fewest possible career overlaps" games.

Paul Hayes

I know it's not good news for poor old Sainz, but the F1 authorities must be glad there is at least, if not a positive, a non-controversial story to get at least some attention today! Good luck to Bearman. Ferrari's youngest ever driver, born the year Alonso won his first title! Will this be the bi...

Paul Hayes

I know it's not good news for poor old Sainz, but the F1 authorities must be glad there is at least, if not a positive, a non-controversial story to get at least some attention today! Good luck to Bearman. Ferrari's youngest ever driver, born the year Alonso won his first title! Will this be the big...

Paul Hayes

Same old, same old - Verstappen untouchable, but some interest behind him at times. He has to retire from a race for SOME reason at SOME point, surely…? It did feel different watching it on a Saturday afternoon, somehow.

Paul Hayes

mario wrote: ↑19 Nov 2023, 12:58 In the context of how badly much of his season has gone, it's perhaps hard to do that much more damage when his reputation has already taken quite a beating.

True - it just feels like the unfortunate icing on top of a fairly miserable cake.

Paul Hayes

Poor old Perez. I'm not sure getting done on the last lap twice in two races is doing his reputation any favours.

Paul Hayes

Bizarre that everyone in the world bar the Red Bull pitwall could see what a mistake it was to finish Perez's runs so early.

Paul Hayes

1 Sergio Perez. Home town hero did exactly what Lewis Hamilton did 2 races ago and got the exact same results. Quoting Senna about if there was a gap.... but there was not a BIG enough gap. I only heard his English interview during the Sky coverage, so I don't know if he raised this himself in any ...

Paul Hayes

Poor old Perez. He saw a chance of glory opening up ahead of him there, but all the way down the outside it seemed likely that was what was going to end up happening to him.

Paul Hayes

What a strange qualifying session. Not often you see a team suddenly come from nowhere with both cars like Ferrari did today.

Paul Hayes

There was a fair bit of excitement in that - let's hope it bodes well for the race tomorrow, although with Max on pole for that one I suspect not.

Paul Hayes

Well, a lot of people have been saying for much of the season what a great year we'd be having if only Red Bull weren't there. Let’s hope tomorrow now lives up to that! (Albeit you still wouldn't bet against Max coming through to win… would you…?)

Paul Hayes

Well, I suppose that just goes to show that no matter what you throw into a race at the moment, Max Verstappen will always come out on top.

Paul Hayes

This season is turning into a real kicker for Alpine, isn't it? A second double-DNF in a row, this one cause by their cars hitting one another - albeit the incident wasn't entirely their drivers' fault. The season began with the team their star driver had left them for taking all the plaudits, and n...

Paul Hayes

I did not expect a Mercedes pole in Hungary for the second year in a row!

Paul Hayes

It does seem a shame for de Vries, especially after that great drive for Williams at Monza last year. But not entirely surprising that this has happened.

Paul Hayes

Sadly not quite the thrills and spills we had last year. Nice to see Williams having another good race, though, with Albon once again impressive - passing a Ferrari, no less!

Paul Hayes

I really thought Norris had the pole there, with Verstappen having a yellow middle sector behind him.

Poor old Perez can't qualify for love nor money at the moment, can he?

Paul Hayes

I've had a little play at being an F1 journalist this week!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/66108994

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fz22ms

Paul Hayes

A shame it was once again an easy one for Verstappen out front. I'm not sure how much I believe Alonso could have challenged him without his issue, but at least as Alonso had promised it wasn't a 20-to-30 second margin. Great drive by Albon to get some good points for Williams.

Paul Hayes

That was quite a fun race to start with, but rather petered out after the halfway mark - still, better than some of the Barcelona processions we've seen down the years. Nice for Mercedes that they put in a stronger showing - mixes things up a bit!

Paul Hayes

Well - a rare example of a race where there's a lot of talk about rain maybe, possibly coming... and then it actually did!

Paul Hayes

That was the most entertaining qualifying session for ages!

Maybe this is the answer to the Monaco question - just do it as a time trial rather than a race!

Paul Hayes

Amused by the way David Croft on the Sky comms called that - "If there were yellows now and people's laps were interrupted, that'd give us an interesting grid..." Mystic Croft!

Paul Hayes

Yes, that's true, I got over-excited!

Paul Hayes

Poor old Hulkenberg. Had Verstappen made it into sector two he'd have been on the podium at last!

Paul Hayes

A shame Verstappen went and spoiled everyone's fun, but for a while that looked like quite an interesting qualifying session!

Paul Hayes

I was very surprised and impressed that Perez managed to maintain such a gap to Verstappen and take the win. Based on everything that's happened with them as team mates so far, and their relative performances in the previous race, I expected Verstappen to cruise right past him. I'm still very doubtf...

Paul Hayes

I still find it hard not to see Verstappen coming through to win from 15th tomorrow, such is his pace advantage, as we saw on similar occasions last season.

Paul Hayes

An ominous-looking start to the season for everyone who isn't Red Bull, but at least Alonso provided some great entertainment. It's amazing to me to think that when he made his F1 debut I was a 17-year-old sixth former, and now he's making the podium when I'm a 39-year-old middle-aged man!

Paul Hayes

For any George Russell fans - I produced a programme which was on over Christmas looking back over his first year at Mercedes, in which we got to have a chat with George himself.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dmhnvl

Paul Hayes

Congratulations George!

Great race, too, although probably not as much jeopardy for the lead as would be needed to make it a classic.

Paul Hayes

It would take a heart of stone not to be pleased for Haas there!

Paul Hayes

Nice to see Vettel have a good qualifying for a change!

Paul Hayes

It has to be Alpha Tauri. Both for the obvious safety issues and possibly robbing us of the drama of seeing Verstappen having to fight past the two Mercedes - although I suppose Bottas's problem would have changed things there anyway.

Paul Hayes

Well that was exciting, once it finally got going… and if you could work out who was actually going to end up where!

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