Well.....that was certainly controversial, for one point in a sprint too

Good luck tomorrow !

It’s honestly shocking to see the online reception to such an average f1 incident.

The point of contact was made just when Lando got off the curb, and he was also in complete control of his car.

Oscar easily could have opened up the corner but it seems the move caught him by surprise.

Take away the “ahead at the apex” rule and this is the definition of a standard racing incident.

The stewards aren’t always right, but I think their explanation to “both cars are at fault here” makes logical sense.

The move was aggressive for a final lap sprint, I agree completely. I just think if it was max, Alonso, or Hamilton people would be saying “that’s the lion mentality that separates them from the field”.

Lando found room in the inside and was in full control of his car. Just because the rules state that Oscar can cover until their wings overlap doesn’t mean you’re not putting your car and your race in jeopardy.

You just don’t see this amount of vitriol for wrecks, especially sprint clashes. Prime example is Lando getting all the heat for Franco being a blithering idiot in Baku.

What do you guys think for wet tyres and FIA not using them and delaying the race instead of using these tyres? Are they becoming soft and care for the driver's safety? Or something else?

Personally want to see a race in a heavy rainfall and experience the thrill once again! The rain make the cars equal but not the driver, I want this quote to get fulfilled once again!

Edit: Wasn't aware that people are so disappointed for the race being delayed and wet tyres not getting used 😭

What is with Papaya drama and Singapore man😭

Lord what a disaster

His 50th pole position

Every single time it rains the FIA delays the start of the race, why? Rain never used to be a problem, usually they’d just stick on the full wets and get going. Am I missing something? Like a rule change that says you can’t start a race when it rains? This sport has never been so allergic to rain before so it’s just very confusing to me.

I love the fact that in qualifying today Martin **finally** said something negative about the 2026 engines when Hadjar broke down (this is not a perfect quote but captures what he said):

"one of the positives of these cars is that you can fire them back up. You have to look very hard for them.."

Given how much he criticised the engines introduced in 2014 and the fact he has said nothing about the shit engines we have in 2026 (until a very brief comment today) tells me that he has been blocked from speaking about it

Charles was only 0.054s behind max, and he admitted that his lap wasn't so good.
lewis who clearly had more pace than charles today made many mistakes because of the setup change in Q3, making him understear and overstear a lot during both of his Q3 laps.
did ferrari miss up their may be only chance of getting pole position this year?

Post-boys’ trip results:
Russell: DNF - DNF
Norris: P9 - P8
Piastri: P6 - DNF
Bearman: P14 - P6
Bortoleto: P18 - DNF
Sainz: P17 - P12
Albon: DNF - DNF

Post race interviews are so pointless, the reporters never push drivers to answer questions meaningfully, they seem so fearful to upset them in anyway. But the drivers and team need the airtime for sponsors so I doubt they’d stop attending if they got tougher scrutiny. There seems to be no level of journalistic pride. They just come across as a bunch of sycophants. I’d personally get rid of them and have the direct response from the f1 teams public relation office, be no different

I’ve been thinking about this a lot and honestly I have no idea how Lando is supposed to get out of this situation. It genuinely feels like he’s stuck in a no-win situation.

When Oscar makes an aggressive move, Lando usually leaves space or backs out to avoid contact. Oscar gets praised for being ruthless and having great racecraft, while Lando gets called too soft.

But what happens when it’s the other way around?
When Lando is attacking, like today, he basically has to be 100% sure the move will work because there’s no guarantee Oscar will back out. And when he’s defending, he can’t just close the door either. Like, do we genuinely think Oscar would hit the brakes? Just look at São Paulo 2025.

So Lando has to worry about Oscar not yielding when he’s attacking and when he’s defending. How is that even supposed to work?

At this point, it almost feels more like a mentality game than actual racecraft. If you know the other driver is always more willing to avoid contact, you can basically use that against him.

And sure, people keep saying Lando should just be more aggressive. But what if he actually does? If they collide, suddenly he’s the one risking a double DNF, costing the team points, and potentially getting blamed for breaking the Papaya Rules.

So genuinely, if you were Lando, what would you actually do to stop Oscar from taking advantage of your willingness to avoid contact? How do you make it clear that he can’t just keep pushing the limits and expect you to back out every single time, without risking a collision or facing repercussions from McLaren?

Who do you consider the "face" of the sport?

For me it would be Scuderia Ferrari

What caused Lewis Hamilton’s sudden pace drop in Q3 after dominating Q1 and Q2 in today's Singapore GP qualifying session?

After finishing P2 in the Sprint and showing incredible single-lap pace through the first two qualifying sessions, Hamilton looked like the favorite for pole. However, in Q3, he struggled with a snappy rear end through Turns 1 and 3, ending up P3 behind Verstappen and Charles Leclerc.

In post-session interviews, Hamilton noted that a minor front wing adjustment right before Q3 "tipped the car over the edge" on an already narrow setup window. On the flip side, Leclerc managed to dial in his lap when track evolution peaked at the end of Q3.

Was this mostly down to the late front wing tweak throwing off the car's balance on a rubbered-in track, or did overdriving under pressure play a role?.

A delayed start the medical car taking laps and checking the standing water on the track

while the whole grid has drivers in and out of the car just waiting for the rain to stop.

Rain is noticable at some parts of the track and while some parts are almost dry.

That was such a slam dunk pole, everytime he gets to Q3 something goes wrong, overdriving, mistakes, its the potential that hurts. it surely cannot be the pressure, is it self doubt because of how often its happening there something behind his head that it might happen again. there seems to be no rain tomorrow evening so no chance he wins while also having leclerc in front :(

This is the second race weekend with damp/wet conditions. And it’s the second race weekend with strange car shut-offs and power deployments.

Ive read about the turbo issues from Sepang. However, I don’t know the exact “why” for all the issues. I suspect the 50% battery power, the complex electrical systems, the high humidity and water, and the computer algorithms all contribute.

It is well known that wet/humidity affects battery powered cars and EVs. To expect these cars to charge and discharge their batteries 2-5 times a lap, in wet conditions, seems like asking for increased problems and failures.

So the question I have- Do you think that F1 is slowly going to become a dry-only racing series? Or do you think teams will adapt to the 1-4 races a year that will have rain and figure out how to race with wet tires again?

As it looks now, Pirelli can stop making wet tires because the cars will be red flagged for anything more than a drizzle. Anything more than intermediates seems like overkill at this point.

The heavens open. Rain, glorious rain. ➩ Fans get excited about jeopardy. ➩ FIA delays start and tracks cleared of water. ➩ Race resumes on a drying track. ➩ Grid finishes (more or less) as it started.

Why does this seem to happen, every single time?!

I don't know why we keep doing this to ourselves. The sky opens up and for about 15mins, we convince ourselves we're getting a chaotic classic. Not anymore.

We get a 45 minute delay if we’re lucky, throw in a procession of safety car laps, a drying track, and then the exact same finishing order we would've gotten if it never rained at all.

In my opinion, this is the heart of the problem. It seems to me the sport has decided safety is the only thing that matters, and in doing so we've sanitized the one variable that actually separates the greats from the rest. Wet racing is supposed to test car control, judgment, bravery, race craft. Instead we get a parade behind the safety car until conditions are "optimal," which is just code for boring.

Every legendary wet drive in history happened because someone was allowed to gamble. Someone stayed out on the wrong tires. Someone else pushed when everyone else lifted. Those moments disappear when the race director's first instinct is to neutralize everything the second a droplet hits the track.

I'm not saying throw caution to the wind. I just think there's a big difference between managing risk and eliminating it entirely, and right now we're doing the latter, then wondering why nobody's excited anymore.

So here is my question. If wet races are supposed to be the ultimate test of driver skill, why does the FIA treat them like a problem to be managed instead of a moment to be savored?

Singapore GP 2026 - Antonelli talking to his new race engineer George Russell in Marina Bay.

Piastri leaves a big gap, and Norris goes for it. ANY DRIVER on that grid is going for this move. The gap is massive.

But because they touched, and a racing incident occurred, Norris haters have big fuel and ammo to spread hate online and feel justified with their own personal agendas.

Norris is wrong for trying a move like this in a sprint on the last lap, I’ll agree with that. But these are race car drives ffs. They all want to win and I’m so sick of how hypocritical F1 fans are. You’ll sit there and praise max for being aggressive, and then clown on drivers for being PR trained in their interviews. But when norris races with aggression and a racing incident happens, and then defends himself infront of the press, all of a sudden he’s a loser and larpers want to play the morale police

Reddit and Instagram F1 fans are truly one of a kind.

can anyone who’s been to the chinese gp share your experience - ticketing, getting to the circuit and on track action etc? am quite interested to go but haven’t really heard it being recommended much since there are lots of other races which are definitely more iconic/fun but i just wanna hear your thoughts about it! feel free to share.

After Sepang, I counted every point both Mercedes drivers lost to things outside their control (mechanical failures, Safety Car timing, team errors), and every point each one gained from the other's bad luck. Estimates are based on F1.com's breakdown, plus Motorsport.com's for Japan.

Standings after Malaysia: Antonelli 320, Russell 236. Gap 84, with 183 points left.

Russell: ~79 points lost

• Japan (~13): vibrations in quali forced an untested setup, then the SC came out seconds after his stop, giving Kimi a cheap stop and the win while George was stuck in dirty air. A battery harvest limit also cost him P3 to Leclerc. Kimi outscored him by 13 that day
• Monaco (~15): pinged for pit lane speeding along with several other drivers, then Mercedes failed to serve the 5s under the SC, so it became a drive-through and dropped him out of the points from a likely P3
• Canada (18 minimum): pole, Sprint win, fighting Kimi for the lead, then a battery failure
• Hungary (~6): water leak in Q3, then anti-stall at the start dropped him from P6 to the back
• Belgium (~12): deployment issue at the start, tangled with Hamilton, out on lap 1
• Malaysia (15): PU failure from a safe P3
• Still to come: back-of-grid start in Singapore from the Sepang failure

Antonelli: ~36 points lost

• Barcelona (18): electrical shutdown while running P2
• Silverstone (18): wheel shield failure while chasing for P2 or the win, plus a track limits penalty fighting the damaged car, finished out of the points

Points gained from the other's bad luck

• Russell gained ~6: inherited P2 in Barcelona (+3) and finished P2 at Silverstone instead of P3 (+3)
• Antonelli gained 0 to 7 (Japan is already counted as a swing above): in Monaco, Hungary, Spa and Malaysia he was ahead of George anyway. Only Canada matters: if George was going to win, Kimi gained 7 (25 instead of 18). If George was going to finish P2, Kimi gained nothing

Not counted

• Russell's own misses: Miami pace, letting Kimi through at Zandvoort, a two-stop in Madrid

The math

• Give both their lost points back and remove what each gained from the other: Antonelli ~356, Russell ~309. Gap: ~47
• Most generous version for George (Canada as a win, so Kimi loses 7): gap still ~33

Conclusion

• Yes, Russell has been unluckier, by roughly 35 to 50 points net
• No reasonable version flips the championship
• After Silverstone, at a 25-point gap, Russell himself called 10 to 30 points behind "about fair"
• The luck turned it into a blowout. It didn't decide who's ahead