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A really intriguing race with Max making an impressive move at the start of the race to go ahead and seal a 4th victory in a row on one of his favorite tracks striking a blow to the Mclarens who finished 2nd and 3rd ! Lando had a strong race to wrestle 2nd from his teamate Piastri who did not have the greatest of days ! Ferrari and specifically Hamilton had a great recovery race day, after embarasingly being eliminated in Q2 in Quali in thier home turf !

A Miami Sprint and race weekend that had action for the ages. A brilliant performance by young pilot Kimi for Merc to be the youngest pole sitter in F1 history! One of the best sprint races we have ever seen with tire strategy, weather decisions, crashes and overtakes Mia delivered. The race showed just showed how superior Mclaren was with Piastri taking another brilliant win with Lano behind me, and Rusell with another great solid drive to round out third. Ferrari are really struggling right now!

We saw an amazing performance from Oscan Piastri who had a heavy duel on the opening lights with Max Verstappen who had an amazing weekend and clinched pole. Max overtook on the outside and was given a 5 sec penalty and that pretty much dictated the race. The RB had a faster pace than the Mclaren this weekend. Norris unfortunately had another wobble this weekend when he crashed his Mclaren during Quali and had to start from 10th but recovered to finish 4th. A positive race weekend for Ferrari and Charles who scored thier first podium coming in 3rd, while Hamilton unfortunately cvonstinues to struggle.

An outstanding fantastic weekend for Piastri who score a hat trick pole and win this weekend! What a fitting 50th F1 start for the Mclaren pilot ! His teammate Norris had a tough weekend filled with mistakes but still came in 3rd. Mercedes and Russell had one of the gutsiest fantastic drives battling car issues from brake wire to steering wheel all at over 220KPH but still fending off a fast Mclaren behind to bring in a brilliant 2nd for Merc ! RedBull and Max unfortunately had a disastrous weekend ! They were down the order, had mutiple pitstop issues, but, Max still savaged 6th from last ! A crisis was called for senior RB management after the race.

A stunning unexpected pole from Max and RB on Saturday pretty much sealed a race win for Max on a Sunday! He did not put a foot wrong this weekend, and the Mclarens were on the back foot. During the race there was a strategy question whether to switch Oscar for Norris as Oscar was faster so he can chase Max, but at the end of the day the track was very difficult to pass. Yuki`s mich anticapted debut in his own country did not result in a good outcome for the race, but we will see what happens in future races ! Mercedes Anotnelli had a record break weekend has a became the youngest driver in F1 history to score a fastest lap and also lead a Grand Prix ! This young man is one to watch!

We had an interesting Chinese GP weekend that served up our 1st Sprint race of the new season. Hamilton scored a really surprising victory in Sprint highlighting a very controlled Sprint Qualifying, and race ! Ferrari had a tale of two half's, when after the race they ended having both cars disqualified , along with Gaslys Alpine for being underweight, and Hamiltons car having worn skid blocks. During the race Piastri had a fantastic victory for Mclaren, while Norris nursed brake issues to come 2nd , while Mercedes had another great weekend with Rusell, and Antonelli doing another solid job with finishing in 7th even though it was later found out he had floor damage.

We were all treated to a fantastic crazy Australian GP that had all elements of a crazy race, that mixed conditions turned upside down. The weather caught out so many drivers from rookies, to all time veterans like Alonso resulting in him crashing out of the race. Only 14 drivers finished. Norris had a fantastic race to finish without any major mistakes except one spin. Paistri unfortunately had a costly mistake which changed the course of his race ! This was a brilliant race from Merc who finished 3 and 4th, and by far the driver of the day with an amazing debut from rookie Antonelli, who went from all the way 16th to 4th. He made very few mistakes, awesome passes and avoided the barriers ! Ferrari defiantly underperformed with a wrong strategy that had them finishing 9 and 10th. Albon had a fantastic top 5 finish.

We had a busy 3 days of testing that showed for the most part remarkable reliability for all the teams ! Overall comparing test times, drivers' conversation and such Mclaren seem to be the preemptive favorites heading into the new season, and 1st race in Melbourne ! That is followed by in my opinion Mercedes and Ferrari. Mercedes seem to have made great gains, showing a very solid platform and covering the most miles/laps out of all the teams in 458 ! RedBull unlike the last 2 years seem to be a little out of sorts, they had issues throughout the test and covered the least number of laps with 304. Both drivers also did not get the amount of testing miles they wanted.

F1 celebrated in grand style its 75th anniversary in London in the O2 Arena with a red carpet to boot. All the teams new liveries were introduced, and it was a grand affair. We also cover Ferrari`s new car introduction, and how Lewis and Charles are feeling about it, and finish off with latest F1 news roundup.

The much anticipated Ferrari era officially started this week. We saw the first pictures of Hamilton in an Iconic picture in the backdrop of Enzo Ferrari`s house. This week will be an intense immersion as Ferrari call it, where he met all the engineers, management team, and different technical departments. This will lead to a test drive in a 2023 challenger! Let's see where this exciting era takes us.