Even Max tacitly acknowledged that superior tactics and better pit performance contributed significantly to that victory.
McLaren, Merc and Ferrari all have MUCH to learn from the masters in those areas - and it does reinforce Terry’s comment about Newey: McLaren in particular have shown it’s possible to catch-up with a Newey-led engineering team, but it’s not just about the car, never mind the driver, and this more level playing field is showing it.
Next two races should be informative 
I’m looking rather forward to see just how far Charles will crank the whiney-bitch dial next year when Lewis ruffles his feathers
He could do with being a little less French about everything… 
I have the impression that despite his undoubted one lap pace he may not have the temperament needed for consistent success. I wait to see.
Like Paul wrote there is far more to winning races and championships than just the fastest car, though that is essential before any of the rest of it matters.
Many people wait a whole career to be able to do the fastest lap not realising that is just the first step on the ladder, not the last.
He certainly makes too many unforced errors IMO (though it’s not as bad as a few years back) and seems to struggle to drive around a problem.
As much as I rate Sainz, I think the intensity that Lewis will bring to the table will expose his off-days/weekends even more than is currently the case
Meanwhile, Cagney & Lacey have told Toto to do one:
Stroll to stay at Aston Martin.
For… Well, quite some time. “Year on year.”
It’s almost as if daddy owns the team, eh?
Stella not holding back!! Go on, son
https://x.com/f1_naija/status/1807436782310506632?s=46&t=JAZ29qzJW_ggL3AI1Le9Xg
Some proper shit stuff from Max. Again
Verstappen’s attitude to anybody by any means
Verstappen has been quite happy while out in front and able to do his own thing. He’s a very good driver.
Put him under pressure, and if the radio messages can be believed, he can crack.
Shitshow from Verstappen. Shitshow from the stewards. Shitshow from the FIA.
All those new gravel traps and still track limits infringements dominate (until shit went all Stock Cars)…
Max was very, very lucky to only get 10 seconds. Cute that Alonso sneaked fastest lap off him in the last lap.
Österreichring used to be fun, this was more incident than entertainment.
All of the above. Thought Horner gaslighting everyone who watched the race by blaming Lando was telling, a skill honed on employees i wonder.
It’s a reflex-action for the fucker.
Surprised (no I’m not) that there was no consequence for him putting Lando on the grass post-crash
I take tremendous consolation from knowing that the first time Max forced Lando off track resulted in Lando getting a richly-deserved track limits penalty, while Max’s later off-track overtake was neither ceded nor even noted… The true spirit of F1 being upheld, right there 
Just as importantly, Lewis’s unintentional failure to get inside the pit entry line was justly punished, yet a later unsafe pit release of (checks notes), Max - which event (if it goes badly-enough wrong) only risks death or life-changing injuries to some engineers (and who cares about them?!) - rightly went unpunished…
Superb Stewarding all-round yesterday: priorities bang-right - makes my heart swell with pride 
Betimes, I wonder how we can possibly explain the current obsession with white lines…?
Max had been jinking in the braking zone for several laps. Lando was complaining, and it was obvious that there was serious risk.
Lando then dives, out-brakes himself, can’t turn in, and is crowded wide.
Then, knowing that Max would continue to change direction under braking, Lando goes full potato and thinks that the result would be different.
I love to see great battles, and I love a feisty racer, but did Lando genuinely think it was going to be different this time ?
In my view Verstappen should have been warned and then punished by the Stewards for his driving standards much earlier.
But Lando, Lando, Lando 
I doubt very much thatLando was thinking strategically, (Or thinking much at all) but complaining about Max’s driving and coming second would have done nothing.
Forcing the issue and escalating the subject in everyone’s minds may make the stewards start looking at Max more critically.
Well, a top line driver should always be thinking strategically.
The stewards are not doing their job if a driver has to put himself, and Marshalls in danger to draw attention to dangerous driving.
It was naive of Lando to think Max would race fair.
