Chris2K

Mazepin is out of the race due to contracting COVID, Haas aren't replacing him. They would be allowed to run Jack Aitken as he drove for Williams in FP1, but they've decided not to bother.

First ball. It's going to be a long winter.

Try not to be too shocked folks, but Helmut Marko is kicking off about how Lewis didn't get punished for driving in to the back of Max or forcing him off the road.

And here we are on equal points for the final race of the season.

Oh my word, this is going to be a nightmare afterwards. Max has a time penalty now so this whole giving the place back thing was totally unnecessary. But if Max was told by the FIA to give the place back, why is he also getting a time penalty?

That Toto slow-mo might be the best footage of the season. What's most baffling here is that Max hasn't given Lewis the place despite him slowing down to give him the place causing the collision.

OH MY LORD

The fuck is this "offer" business? It's an F1 race, not a fucking game show where you can stick or gamble.

Oh Max you are not getting away with that. Red flag again, guess I'll be re-heating my dinner a second time. Worth noting that Bottas coming back on the track as he pleased caused the Leclerc/Perez/Russell/Mazepin incident.

I'm assuming the delayed red flag was because everyone was distracted by Michael Masi's 70s open shirt/chest hair/necklace combination.

That's one hell of an interesting decision to say the least. I'm expecting Toto to be sending Masi some emails about it. And yikes, Max's tyres look shocking after only a few laps of proper racing.

But... but... it's our year?

We win the game in hand we have over West Ham and we're in the Top 4. How on earth has that happened?

I swear if we don't want qualify because of a last minute Ronaldo winner I'd be inconsolable. That said, the way we've been playing since June makes me think North Macedonia might do us over.

A terrific finale and the final scores were so close. The season 13 cast is:

The art style is strange because outside of battle is completely different to during the battles, in the battles themselves its identical to Sword/Shield, so I don't know why they felt the need to have a difference. I mean it's a Pokémon game so I'm loving it, but because it's a remake it feels (and theoretically is) a step back from Sword/Shield to a different era. I really miss not having the Pokémon visible in long grass so I can pinpoint what I want to battle when levelling up.

Max is already second whilst Bottas is getting yelled at on the radio by Toto for falling to 11th and overtaking nobody.

5 place grid penalty for Max and 3 place grid penalty for Bottas, both for failing to slow for the yellow flags for Gasly's puncture. Ironically it means Gasly now lines up on the front row with Alonso 3rd.

A stonking lap from Lewis today, meanwhile Checo has really ballsed things up for Red Bull's constructors chances. Also, this:

There's few things nicer than realising how British a game developer is when you find there's an accolade in FH5 called "Watch out, Beetle's about".

I assume that's because even a five second penalty would be enough to get Bottas into 2nd. I don't think anything's going to change though. Amazing how Gio got that Fomula E drive in less than half a day, almost like this had been finalised weeks ago but nobody wanted to say anything.

I'd really appreciate it if Italy would get over their five month post-Euros hangover and start playing some good football again. What a dreadful performance. The lack of any form of decent striker is making it hard to believe the success of the last two years happened.

What a world we live in where Otmar Szafnauer is being head-hunted. Joleon Palmer has just subtly suggested on 5 Live that he has been told to be positive about the sprint format, because gaslighting is apparently the best way to get people to like it.

I should say as well that I don't consider this as a bad thing as I love being able to invest myself into more characters in the Marvel landscape, I can just see how it's daunting for people with less of an interest.