Well, the weekend kicked off to a thrilling start: rain and accounting. Have Red Bull cheated the cost cap system? Well, probably. Are the other team principals outraged? Yes. Have they probably also been cheating the system? Probably.
Then it was all "will it, won't it rain?" There were lots of Yellow Flags for drivers having minor incidents, none of which were broadcast. Despite putting on a second set of intermediate tyres, Ricciardo was out in 17th. Bottas and Ocon were also out of qualifying, letting their team mates carry the can.
The second Qualifying session was dominated by the decision of when to change from Intermediate tyres to Slicks. It was Charles LeClerc, de facto Ferrari strategist, who asked for Slicks, however, he was given Inters. It was Lance Stroll, who actually went first and everyone braced themselves for a Red Flag when he hit the wall. It didn't help him and he was out with Russell and fellow soft-compounders Zhou and Vettel, who messed up a corner.
In the last couple of minutes, it was close for pole position: Hamilton, then Alonso, then LeClerc. Verstappen was trying too hard, aborting two laps, being called in, possibly because he was on the edge for fuel testing. He will start 8th. There was a lot of swearing.
At the end we saw LeClerc's helmet design for Singapore...gold and shiny...very Monaco.
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