Well everybody were talking about Sebastian Vettel crashing into Valtteri Bottas at the start.
Bottas had been working hard all weekend and everything was lost in an instant by a mistake by Vettel and he only got a 5 second penalty! So everything Bottas had done whole weekend was worth 5 seconds. Right..... what a joke! Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen thought so too. Verstappen even gave the media a taste of their own medicine when he said that they should tell Vettel to change his driving style because that's what they told him earlier this season. I got a good laugh from that.
Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon also had some drama after the start and were forced to retire right away. Two Frenchmen out on the first lap on their first ever home race! Also not a good race for Ocon's team Force India when Sergio Perez also had to retire due to an engine issue. Force India is really going backwards but at least their not as bad as McLaren and Williams. They behave like top teams but this is not 1997! This is 2018 so start doing big changes or get used to it. Both teams have been saying for a long time that the directions is right... doesn't look like it does it?
Happy for Kimi Raikkonen though. When Vettel had problems he was free to drive with full throttle and not help Vettel as it seems nowadays. I was already thinking that if Ferrari want's Kimi to stay behind the slow Vettel then I am going to throw my sandwich at the TV! Luckily Kimi was able to pass him easily and overtook Daniel Ricciardo after that for 3rd place.
I was very happy for Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc as well. They did very well with the cars they have and could both do much better in better cars. The top teams should keep them in mind when choosing new drivers in the future.
Here are my predictions and the results:
Pole positions: Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari - WRONG. Hamilton got pole.
Race:
- Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari - WRONG
- Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - WRONG. He won the race and Verstappen was 2nd
- Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes - WRONG. The other Finn Raikkonen was 3rd.
Fastest lap: Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull - WRONG. Bottas was fastest.
Surprise: Charles Leclerc, Sauber - CORRECT. He was fantastic all weekend but didn't get points.
I got almost everything wrong right after I ended the Predictors League. At least I didn't loose any points.
The next thing I am going to write is the Austrian Grand Prix preview. It's nice to have back to back GP weekends!
That's it for today. Thanks for reading ;)
