Of course. But also: Gene Haas is getting on in years. Whoever inherits the company when he kicks the bucket might want to cash out.

Toyota looking for a full buyout maybe? The Rovanperä masterplan is loading 👀

Twice!

That turned out to be a lot more exciting than I feared! Not a banger by any means but I was expecting literally nothing. And all it took was an all-time blunder from McLaren. Really hard to understand their thinking but I’ll take it. Having a 3-way title fight going into the last race is not exactly common so I’m not going to complain too much about this race itself being pretty uneventful as far as on-track action goes.

I think Hanna Schmidt really goes unappreciated. Red Bull are so good on strategy, always proactive and so rarely commit major blunders. Was very happy to see her both on the podium and interviewed after the race for once.

Also can’t stop thinking about how much worse this could have been for McLaren if Alonso hadn’t spent half the race backing up the entire field. This was already bad but imagine Oscar and Lando having to pit into heavy traffic, on a track like this? I guess the lesson for the day is that coke is good for the pit crew because that 1.8 sec stop was brilliant, but maybe don’t let your strategists in on doing lines.

I dislike Horner but I kind of miss him in the paddock. He was such a good antagonist, really fun to root against. F1 is more fun when it has strong characters, the soap opera is such a big part of the appeal.