The Pin is mightier than the sword

An F1 broadcast screengrab saying "FIA Stewards: Colapinto-and-Go Penalty for Car 43 (Col).

I do think that a Colapinto-and-Go is too harsh a penalty, though. If an incisive commentary on Alpine driver management.

Watched the F1. Thought it was OK, not great, not terrible, spent longer than usual shouting at the TV but that was because of Brundle and Crofty spending a solid 45 minutes insisting black was white in terms of Mercedes/Ferrari laptimes. Can go back to only having opinions about other series now.

That was quite a fun race bit very odd in several different ways. Herta watch: encouraging. Much closer to Miyata's pace. Miyata watch: possible race wins if he remembers how to qualify.

I imagine he would because probably someone has done out before but worth investigating

Think the only one in F2 might be Beganovic right now...

I don't think Varrone can do this but.... wait, no need for but.

F2 race controls like....

So guessing that's a gearbox failure for Beganovic given apparently the marshals can't move it...

For two highly experienced drivers Miyata and Herta are being total idiots fighting each other and letting the car ahead with a 5s pull a gap.

We need to get Van Hoepen into IMSA for tower reasons.

Wow Tsolov's lefts are extremely dead.

It's possible that Dunne calms down when he learns literally everyone thinks the crash was his fault. It's also possible that makes himeven madder

dunne and stenshorne make contact and both of them are out of the feature race

Not really necessary in this case

Do Not Act Incautiously When Confronting Irishmen in F2 Cars?

Yeah I'm blaming Herta for this.

That's Dunne doing Dunne things then.

Anyway now time to go and watch the F3 feature so as to get that in before the F2 feature.

I don't usually get oval races at all so the fact I stayed watching means I guess it was probably good.

"Can he drive around it?" # well he's driven around everything else today I don't see why not

I get this is a weird tyre situation but how the FUCK do we have an Andretti 1-2.

@tomgaymor.bsky.social arguing that this is mostly because Dixon is mostly interested in defending from Rasmussen and not actually trying to move forwards.

Kirkwood and Power somehow failing to drop through the field despite this theoretically being a tyre race. No, wait, in the US, a tire race.

Sharp and Wharton have withdrawn from Race 2 in Melbourne following their crash in Race 1. Has Prema run out of money for spares…?

Fun fact we don't get this sponsored segment on Sky so when Buxton was saying "passes by this man Christian Rasmussen" we were onboard with Malukas.

Timing71 claims that Kirkwood leads but I think he didn't pit.

Excellent work from Grosjean to get up to 20th without actually starting the race. FOX tower you're drunk go home.

"Mick Schumacher in, his first pit stop in IndyCar racing, he didn't get that far at St. Pete, and it didn't look like it was going terribly well" # left front issue, looked like it wasn't seating properly.

You guys all caught the tower sneakily correctly itself and putting Palou 24th and Grosjean 25th having initially been the other way around right?

"Power will not want to give up that place or that position" # cheers, Will