Good month, bad month

Good month

Sarky Tsunoda

Tsunoda’s incandescent radio comments in recent GPs have been a rare cockle-warmer in yawn-fest races.

200mph roadblock

Magnussen solidified his position as a warp-speed wind-up-merchant by making his Haas wider than the North Jutland coastline to hold back his rivals in Saudi.

The Bear

What more can you say? The boy did good.

Smooth operation

Carlos Sainz was smooth in all senses in Melbourne, winning two weeks after having his appendix taken out.

Serenity personified

Kudos to Max Verstappen, still crushing the field despite being in the eye of a bad-PR tornado – and his dad getting involved. Strong stuff.

Bad month

One car down

Williams was reduced to one car in Oz due to a lack of spares – a team that once produced Le Mans and BTCC winners in addition to its Formula 1 activities. Very sad.

Alpine goes full Mastercard-Lola 

Alpine has been reduced to levels of ridicule even the most sophisticated F1 modelling software couldn’t have predicted – its new car is appallingly slow.

Suck it up

Jeddah looked like it had almost as many plastic bags floating around as it did fans in attendance, eagerly hoovered up by F1 cars as they sped round.

The Prez

Last year Mohammed Ben Sulayem said he would be stepping back from day to day involvement with F1. How is that working out?

Lack of action

It’s a top-five lockout in the constructors’ championship. Should there be a new prize for a team finishing sixth in the championship – just like the Jim Clark Trophy in the good old 1980s?