Lewis tried to give Charles the place back but left it a touch too late before the line.
Yeh, a little lucky or unlucky, or funny.
Tsunoda might have had the 2nd worst race after Piastri. He's not helped himself in the cursed Red Bull.
Him, Tsunoda has been in struggle town for much of the season so in that context I think he drove a pretty decent if unspectacular race. Solid error free and banked some good points. Sure could have been better, but also he could have easily gone in a wall or slipped out of DRS range end then dropped to 10.
Biggest criticism maybe that he was unable to pass Lawson and looks bad finishing behind RB car... but the RB car might be good, extreme fast in straight line, and Lawon had a superb race. Strong drive by Lawson to be mistake free, put the car in the right position and getting clean good momentum run on the straights every time.
Alpine drivers, Ferrari drivers and Albon probably had worse races... not sure about the Sauber and Haas drivers, I doubt they had better races than Tsunoda.
Did Lando actually have a worse race than Tsunoda? he finished behind, sure he had a little issue with pitstop delay, but maybe he could have made a pass on Lawson in the first stint, or maybe pulled more of a gap before the pitstop to make the position with the delay... maybe a little better race start he might have been further ahead earlier in the race.
That can be Oscars only bad weekend now, he's effectively been given a free hit with Lando failing to capitalise in P7.
Yeh, although the luck has been ebb and flow. Maybe it's not so surprising Lando didn't capitalise, so much of his gains have been on the side of luck, like the strategy in Hungary, Oscar's penalty in Silverstone etc. Both McLaren drivers made the mistake in Melbourne and ran off track there...
I'm not sure Lando can increase intensity and consistency to actually challenge for the championship if things don't continue to fall his way more often than they don't.
Sainz has become along with Prost, the only driver to have achieved a podium finish with McLaren, Ferrari and Williams.
Legendary. Such as awesome result for Sainz. Super solid drive.
It's pretty much his championship to lose now, especially going off of Lando's poor performance this weekend.
In the case of Max making more gains, it could be the point that the team need to consider consistency of performance and need to make their tough call to start prioritising the driver more likely to win the title for them.
