You should post more live spoilers, too… 
Reminds me of the blood shit and pus that used to exit me when my colitis was at its worst.
So, in a move that nobody whatsoever could see coming from a far-off distance, Flavio is now the acting TP at Alpine. Odius twat
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I wish him all the worst.
F1 is becoming everything detractors say it is 
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Click bate does not reality make.
All YouTube is clickbait, but Horner and Co will use any avenue to sew doubt.
“If they are beating us they must be cheating”
Results of FIA inspection of McLaren braking system to be published on Wednesday
I don’t think it is necessarily about the possibility of ‘cheating’ - an inspection may reveal that McLaren has a rule-abiding system that’s better than the solution RB have. So RB then have an idea of where and how to look for improvements in their own system.
Espionage through official channels.
In which FIA try to make FIFA’s governance look like a 70s hippy commune.
This is very well put together.
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Been reading a little of the armchair expert views on Monaco.
Lots of words like ‘boring’ and claims that it should be removed from the F1 calendar.
I’ve also watched the Indy 500.
How many overtakes do you think there were in the last 18 laps?
One.
Just one.
Absolutely processional, driving on an oval.
Don’t misunderstand me - I have HUGE respect for the Indycar drivers. 230mph++ inches from a wall? It’s a very special skill. It’s not something just anyone can do (despite the armchair expert view!)
But at least Monaco is fun to watch. Great scenery, interest with something called ‘corners’. It’s a spectacle, while Indy is an event.
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For me Monaco is, and always was since I was involved, a show more than a race. The real race is Saturday qualifying since if you screw that up you are buggered - yes you Mercedes.
It is still one of the best F1 events of the year though IMO.
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The criticisms have continued relentlessly since the very first race, and are the stuff of lazy journalists with silly-season apathy, and lazy, know-nothing armchair pundits who imagine it demonstrates some form of braggable knowledge.
Frank puts it perfectly - it’s a show, a spectacle, an event - an Occasion…
FWVLIW, I do like its potential to mix-up the usual order of things in any given season (OK, that didn’t happen this time, but…), but it’s second only to a wet race for its potential to disrupt - and a wet Monte Carlo is bliss!
And it is nice to look at
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Hulk gets his first podium. 
Probably the record no-one wants!
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Deserved, he drove well - fending Lewis off was no small task, albeit aided-and-abetted by Ferrari’s usual opaque strategising…
We were there thanks to Sam’s employer providing hospitality in the ‘Ignition Club’ - ace day despite me getting literally soaked to the skin during the main race!
‘Greener motorsport’: [see also: ‘two hours just to get out of the fucking car-park at the end of the day!’]
Hospitality entrance:
Our tables:
A number of actually worthwhile celebs were hosted by Vicki Butler-Henderson, including DC and Claire Williams, who were both excellent. DC’s 2002 car was there too:
Toots. Music also included the averagest jass-ish/RnB-ish band I have ever heard:
F3 race - for some reason always by far the (painfully!) loudest!:
One of many heavy, thundery showers just passed, followed by blistering sunshine!:
F2 was properly wet and a bloody excellent bit of racing, they were actually more disciplined than some of the oafs in F1!:
Sam “enjoying” one of the showers - she got the last pacamac, I went without because the seats we’d got in the stand were too good to abandon!:
Oscar leads Lando:
Track walk in the flawless weather that arrived as soon as the racing was all over!!!
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