Good month - Bad month: September 2023

Good Month

F1 star power

Sell-out Silverstone, drivers treated like rock stars, the British GP gripped by its own Hollywood fever – F1 really has hit the ‘big time’.

Saturday Stroll

Stroll actually managed to fend off his mentor/minder Alonso in the Austria sprint – rare 2023 bright spot for the Aramco Martin chosen one.

McLaren’s new meteor

Norris took the improved McLaren to fourth in Austria, then consecutive seconds – so is a first win on the cards?

Charm Offensive

Apex F1 movie’s Brad Pitt and Jerry Bruckheimer are now hilariously keen to get Martin Brundle onside, giving the friendliest of interviews

Ricciardo returns

After an increasingly mediocre Formula 1 career petered out, the grinning Aussie is back – seemingly on force of sheer personality.

Bad Month

Laughable anthem

Brad Pitt needed all of his acting talents to keep a straight face at Silverstone as actor/amateur club singer Damian Lewis savaged the British national anthem.

Mind the run-off

Surely a solution can be found for the track limits tedium which has gripped Formula 1 recently? Stick some AstroTurf down.

Chapeau Zhou 

Alfa Romeo has best qualifying in ages in Hungary, then Zhou skittles out both Alpines ‘Tour de France-style’ in the first corner.

Clogged up

Another race, another instance of the clog being on the other extremity for Verstappen – crying about being shoved off by Pérez after making his name doing the same.

Pérez on precipice

Pérez is desperate though – having failed to make Q3 five times in a row. Now Daniel Ricciardo is looming…