France GP - "Happy Sunday everyone"

I thought Ocon was Spanish.  Halo, Baby! thought he was Mexican.  Turns out he's French.

He and his compatriot , Gasly, were out half a lap in.  What a start...Bottas and Vettel...surely he should have been penalised further than 5 minutes.  Usually pre-race we hear a lot about how difficult the first corner is and how it brings out a safety car....none of that for this race.  All the chat was about rain.  Which never came...however, the first corner...

Not much else to comment about this race.  Alonso had a special name banner graphic, is this another method to convince him to stay in F1?  And a rubbish end of the race for Stroll in the Williams.

Any volunteers to write the commentary for Austrian race next weekend?

France GP - Results

1. Give it some Gasly! - 520*
2. Evel Marque - 434*
3. Two World Champions, Two Future World Champions, and um, Two Other Guys - 415
4. Hasstag#FaceBull - 401*
5. Beauty & the F1 Geek - 393
6. Maximum Attack! - 374
7. Halo, baby! - 325*
8. No Vices Now - 288
9. The Pitstop Princess - 284
10. Spa Day with a Shooey - 283
11. The Hopefulls - 254
12. Hippy F1 - 228
13. Jack Johnson - 206
14. Wheels on Fire - 196

* Home track played

Canada GP - "Grande vittoria, bravissima...and other Italianish"

Brundle: "It wasn't an all time classic, was it?"  Were you glad the chequered flag was waved early?

Grosjean's engine blowing in the pit lane as he left for Q1 was a sign that this race was to be all smoke.

There was suffering in the first lap as Hartley took Canadian Stroll out and brought out the safety car too early in the race for it spice it up.   Will Kvyat be back in a Toro Rosso seat soon?  Sainz and Perez meeting did nothing to alter the race either.  The commentators tried to bring out the old "how many stops?" chat to add suspense but Pirelli had said one stop was the way to go and no one was going to do any different no matter how many times pundits mentioned that you could make two stops.  I was also disappointed that Hammertime worked this race and Lewis overtook Raikkonen in the pits.  More pain when the driver we all want to see really racing, Alonso, retired on his three hundreded race, five years since he last won a race.  Will Kvyat be back in a McLaren seat soon?

I am also disliking the Live Points graphic.  Anyone else thought it was the order of the race a few times?

Brundle thinks it's the rest of the season is going to be all about who makes the fewest mistakes.  Sounds riveting.

Canada GP - Results

1. Give it some Gasly - 450*
2. Evel Marque - 383*
3. Two World Champions, Two Future World Champions, and um, Two Other Guys - 360
4. Beauty & the F1 Geek - 351
5. Maximum Attack! - 323
6. Halo, baby! - 307*
7. Hasstag#FaceBull - 301
8. The Pitstop Princess - 266
9. No Vices Now - 257
10. Spa Day with a Shooey - 256
11. The Hopefulls - 213
12. Hippy F1 - 210
13. Jack Johnson - 175
14. Wheels on fire - 166

* Home track played