1. Everything about this is awesome.
Max Verstappen is ok. The standings gaps—both the driver standings gap and the constructor standings gaps—are effectively eliminated. The two championship contenders have a legitimate, antipathy-laden rivalry. The incident itself was vague enough that the most common response from those F1 is telling me have consideration-worthy opinions is that this was just something that happened and neither guy is actually at fault. Formula 1 could not have scripted it better. Just perfect.
2. Ok, not everything.
Lewis Hamilton being subjected to racial abuse from fans in the online fallout is awful and discouragingly unsurprising.
3. Whom do the Hungarians favor?
One of the fun things about this is we now get to wonder every race whether those hosting it will do things like put banana peels in front of Hamilton or Verstappen. Or, you know, if we’ll see a partisan crowd in one of the spots. Looking forward to two weeks from now. And partially because of this.
4. Interesting that they let you work on the car under a red flag.
This saved Hamilton from a DNF, and at first my reaction was all, That seems like a bad rule, but then I realized maybe I just got normalized to the NASCAR rules and, well, no strong opinion from me. But interesting.
GoooooooooDANNYRIC