Edd Straw

Obviously, the sprint race, he lost a couple of places, could have finished higher there, but he was still pretty content, qualifying proper, went wrong in Q3, didn't have straight line mode, wasn't activated at the start of the lap, then he made a mistake later on, so he ended up fifth on the grid when he could have been a fair chunk higher, but he was still happy.

And that's quite unusual for Hamilton, isn't it, John?

Because normally, he's very, very whatever the result is.

You know, he could have the luckiest win in the world,

And he'd be delighted, even if his performance has been poor.

Or he could end up with a disastrous result, but he's been brilliant.

And he'd be really gutted and think everything's terrible.

But it's interesting, he's in the point where actually this weekend still didn't go perfectly.

The Grand Prix result second was about as good as what was possible.

It does indicate that he's genuinely feeling that he's made a bit of a breakthrough with the car in terms of some of that data work he's done, improving the stability, braking.

Yeah.

And overall, Leclerc didn't have a great weekend.

Well, it's worse.

yeah he did call it that i think he may have been slightly exaggerated but i think that kind of reflects he wasn't that confident and happy with the car he did make progress in terms of the braking field which is all over the shop in the first part of the weekend and for the sprint stuff and it's a bit better for qualifying he came three to fourth but yeah he's clearly not uh not happy with the car let's talk about red bull now john max verstappen he managed a third place put in a robust defensive performance against hamilton for a time trying to hang on to second he's had a decent center pace despite incurring the wrath of the stewards a few times

on his way to fifth.

But where's the Miami pace gone for Red Bull?

Yeah, they gambled a little bit with Verstappen's set-up.

He didn't seem delighted with it.

Hadjar was actually pretty happy with the qualifying set-up.

He was less happy with the errors that he made.