Edd Straw

Who oversees that the proper gap is in place when racing resumes?

Is it electronically controlled or an honour system with potential penalties for infringement?

Hamilton was just over one second back when racing resumed, so seemed to have benefited from something at the start.

strategy skill or pushing the rules you know it's done on each of them the marshalling mini sectors that there's a delta so you do sort of move a little bit you just have to be within it and because the reason you see these these varying gaps is obviously if the car ahead is sort of a little bit sort of behind in a particular instant and the

the next car's a bit ahead it sort of closes up so you do see a little bit of that seesawing where there's a chance to gain an advantage or where an advantage can be conferred a little bit by luck actually depends a lot on where the green flag's thrown because there are elements of what speed you're doing at a

That's outside your control.

There's a certain part on the lap, so there can be a bit of a swing on that.

But also where you are, because there's an element of, if you can anticipate it and give yourself a little bit of, tiny bit of margin and then get a bit of throttle on, you can be okay and you can have a bit more speed.

Because if you think about it, if you...

if you're 15 kilometers an hour faster than the car ahead when the green flag is thrown, that's an advantage you carry and you do gain a little bit of time.

So it's all in that.

And drivers do think about this.

They do do things to try and set themselves up to make it work because you have a pretty good idea when the VSC is going to go.

So there is a skill to it and there are things you can do.

They're not really dark arts, but they're just ways you can try and put yourself in a better position.

yeah absolutely and yeah it'll never be a perfect system but it's uh it's less disturbing than safety car right josh a question from j can it feels like after races like this you occasionally get questions declaring the title leader has wrapped it up and it's all over zanvort last year comes to mind instead what probability would you put on an antonelli title now my two cents 65 antonelli 30 russell five percent someone else

Yeah.

I mean, ultimately he will be the favourite, but that's just...

how it works in terms of the actual betting odds.

But if you look at the kind of implied odds from a quick set of odds I'm glanced at, it's basically 43.5% Antonelli, 28.5% Russell, and then it's 6.6% Norris, 4.3% Piastri.