Heard The Annual Driver's Dinner Was Good This Year

I want ppl to have chemistry with me like the way the monaco track wall has chemistry with all these drivers😪✊🏽

They just can't resist the attraction can they😔

Q2

Out: Gasly, Albon, Stroll, Ocon, Perez (P15-11)

Tsunoda goes third fastest, Daniel Ricciardo makes it into Q3 just barely (less than a tenth faster than Perez in P11, who had an unfortunate bump on the first chicane)

Verstappen and Leclerc exchange fastest time after fastest time

Imola GP Quali

Q1

Out: Sergeant, Alonso, Magnussen, Zhou, Bottas (P20 to P16)

Oscar Piastri investigated for impeding on Magnussen

Logan Sargeant's lap time deleted for track limits, drops from P17 to P20 :(

Hulkenberg goes third fastest

Both Williams and Alonso hit the gravel, turn 18 also almost caught out Verstappen and Norris

Both Alpines and RBs into Q2!!

Verstappen went fastest in Q1 in the last few seconds

Max Verstappen references are everywhere if you look for them (the 33 on Chase Atlantic's sax player's jersey)

Max Verstappen has made a "mini press conference" outside after refusing to talk in the FIA press conference as a protest

Did any of your teammate ships put each other on their special edition helmet? No? Well, they must not love each other as much as Zhou loves Valtteri

Never been a Charles Leclerc fan but he's running a tribute helmet for Jules this weekend and I think it's wonderful so I've gotta share it here too in case you haven't seen it yet

I know I usually do little recap posts but since the time difference is insane and the quali and race is at 6am and the race is on a MONDAY I'm probably not going to (either that or they'll be so extremely delayed) so. real sorry about that folks. 😞😞

Pre-Bahrain Live

F1 was live on instagram a few minutes ago, with Lawrence Barnetto interviewing a couple of the drivers! Here are some of my favourite moments while I try and stay awake for the race :))

Lawrence interviewing oscar piastri with his autographed shirt

Lewis going "you rated me pretty low on the predictions" and making Lawrence freak out for a few seconds

Daniel Ricciardo! Nothing happened beyond him talking about his expectations for the car and the race, I just wanted to include him

And, of course, Spider-man waving to the drivers

Bonus: Lando being handed a mic and then turning back to whatever George was saying instead of actually doing the interview (did not get a screenshot, unfortunately) and the cameraman focusing on 1644 every time they could.

Nothing is more entertaining than watching Max's tipsy post-race interviews because he's really just saying anything rn

On the surface it's easy to understand why Williams picked Alex to drive over Logan for the weekend (better track record + more experience = more likely to get points for them) but the thing is NEITHER have gotten points yet and last year's AusGP resulted in EIGHT retirements, so this just puts so much pressure on Alex and probably destroys Logan's confidence in the team and himself.

It also means if Alex doesn't perform then he and the team are going to get a whole lot more criticism than they already have, which I don't honestly think is deserved (at least not on Alex's end). Time will tell if the decision pays off though.