10 Milliseconds Off Of Q3… Lowkey Devastating But We Do What We Can 🫠

RICNATION WE ARE SO BACK!!!

maxblr when max introduces the helmet for the new season that barely changed since ancient times: OMG! ISN'T IT THE PRETTIEST PIECE OF ART I HAVE EVER SEEN !!!

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

Didn't get a video but here's Lewis's post-race interview speech:

"Since 2021 Ive just, everyday, getting up trying to fight to train to put my mind to the task and work as hard as i can with this amazing team. And this is my last race here at the British Grand Prix with this team. So i wanted to win this so much for them, because I love them, I appreciate them so much because of all the hard work they've been putting in all these years. I'm very grateful to everyone in this team everyone at Mercedes and all our partners, and otherwise to all our incredible fans. I can see you lap by lap as I was coming round and there's just no greater feeling than to finish at the front."

"A big big thank you to everyone back at the factory and here. I love you guys, god bless you."

"I'll get a day of community service if I swear so lets leave it at that" 👀

In case you haven't seen it already: The Bahrain and Saudi Arabia GP will be held on Saturday NOT Sunday!! Unless you're Australian like me. Then they're on Sunday... 2am/4am 🥲🥲

The race weekend so far

Missed the qualifying session for Jeddah? Can't watch it? Here's a summary of what happened:

Q1 + Pre-Quali

Zhou Guanyu will start P20 after a crash in FP3. Although the car was fixed with a minute to go in Q3, he didn't manage to pass the checkered flag and set a lap-time.

Carlos Sainz gets appendicitis, manages to get P7 in FP2 but takes a break for FP3 and Quali (and the GP too).

Ollie Bearman, who takes pole in F2 after qualifying P19 in Bahrain, gets called in as his replacement for the weekend and manages to get into Q2!

Verstappen sets fastest sector 1 in Q1, Stroll sets fastest middle sector and Bearman sets fastest sector 3.

Eliminated: Bottas, Ocon, Gasly, Sargent, Zhou (a repeat of Bahrain, basically)

Q2

Alex Albon, the only driver in Q2 without a teammate, on used softs

Hulkenberg loses power and stops by the track, a yellow flag is called

Alonso Fastest sector 1 and 2, Verstappen fastest sector 3 (both on new, soft tires)

Tsunoda outqualifies Ricciardo by half a second

Bearman, Albon, Magnussen, Ricciardo and Hulkenberg are eliminated, setting P11-15 for the GP in that order

Q3

Tsunoda and Leclerc without teammates in Q3

Verstappen fastest sector 1, 2 AND 3

Leclerc says the car "feels weird on new tires...difficult to drive"

Max Verstappen takes pole position again, his first ever pole at Jeddah but not likely to be his last. It's also his 34th pole ever.

Leclerc three-tenths behind him gets to start the race in P2. They share pole-P2 in qualifying for the fifth race in a row.

Perez comes in third fastest, Alonso fourth

5-10th fastest is set by Piastri, Norriss, Russell, Hamilton, Tsunoda and Stroll (in that order)

Last minute Max podium god bless america 🙏🙏