But Don’t forget about Monsieur Hadjar, Wee-Wee!
Even though it was Alpine’s Jack Doohan’s Mega’
crash which arguably was thee Talking Point of Friday’s two practice sessions
at Suzuka. Much Attenzione was being paid to the intra-squad Scrum of Red
Bull’s “Junior” drivers, i.e.; Yuki Tsunoda v Liam Lawson. For which I decided
to follow along…
Tsunoda wowed the Home crowd straight out of
the box during (Free Practice) FP1, finishing an electrifying sixth for Red
Bull, with newly demoted Liam Lawson P13 back at Racing Bulls. Yet Lawson
flipped the script in FP2, with an impressive fifth, whilst Tsunoda was a lowly
P18, the first driver in the 1:30’s.
Yet even more impressive was Lawson’s Racing
Bulls teammate Isack Hadjar, who finished third in FP2, while the Wunderkind
they’re all chasing, i.e.; Max Verstappen was eighth in FP2. With Max fifth and
Hadjar eight inFP1.
Saturday’s FP3 saw the Red Bull quartet led by Max
Blunderhead in fifth. Followed by Tsunoda ninth, Hadjar tenth and Lawson 12th.
Qualifying saw the two drivers not on our
“Watch list”, i.e.; Verstappen and Hadjar once again outperforming the two Red
Bull protagonists. With Hadjar getting much made over His apparent discomfort
during Qualie’s Q1 session, when apparently His lap belt(s) were too tight!
Sky sports lead “Punter” Kroftie’, aka David
Kroft deftly let Theodorre, not Lenny Kravitz due the heavy lifting on this
subject. With Kravitz musing over how apparently Hadjar was in immense pain
from His belts being too tight upon His lower extremity. Saying He wasn’t sure
if His boxers or briefs were balling up underneath His Firesuit. Before saying
that guest Pundit Jacques Villeneuve had more experience on the matter, before
brief banter about fireproof boxers…
Whilst Kravitz prattled on about non-ferrous
materials in regards to the F1 chassis titanium skid blocks sending sparks into
the overly dry grass and igniting multiple grass fires! For which there inturn
caused multiple Red Flags to be thrown in order for workers to dose each fire…
Reportedly the rookie Frenchman got the matter
straightened out between Qualie’ sessions, feeling much better during Q2 and
once again outperforming, by qualifying a fine seventh!
Meanwhile, Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson were in
lockstep with each other. Ultimately Lawson qualified one place ahead of a
dejected Tsunoda. With Lawson P13 and Tsunoda P14 after Williams Carlos Sainz
Jr. was demoted three places for blocking Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton on a “Hot”
lap, and would start P15.
Verstappen put in what Frederico Suave, nee
Fred Alonso called a magical lap, as nobody, including MaxiMillions’ saw Him
pulling a Wabbit’ from His Nomex underwear, HaHa!
Pipping McLaren’s Lando Norris by one hundredth
second for pole on His final “Flyer” qualifying lap! Being Blunderhead’s 41st
pole position, for which Verstappen was obviously overjoyed.
And then the “Money” round, nee Sunday’s race
certainly wasn’t worth staying up until thoust wee hours of the morning! As I
opted for the Sunday morning encore presentation Chock-Oh-Block Full of the
Mothers Shoe Polish lady Nicole Briscoe cooing in our ears…
As I found it to be a very dull race, dare I say another F1 Snoozefest?
As Verstappen led wire-to-wire from pole. With the only time Lando Norris got
close to overtaking Max was during the duo’s lone pitstop, where they came out
virtually wheel-to-wheel, with Norris going onto the grass in order to kee from
hitting Max. Before it was Game over!
Isack Hadjar dropped one position to Lewis
Hamilton, finish eighth. While Tsunoda trundled home P12. Obviously not what
Yuki or His adoring Japanese fans wished for.
While Liam Lawson went backwards during the race, finishing two positions behind another under fire driver, Alpine’s Jack Doohan. With Lawson finishing a rather lackluster P17…
