Scott Mitchell-Malm

Toto Wolff put his hand up, admitted they got it wrong.

The protocol procedure should have been that you get Antonelli, you bring Russell in, you leave him for the five seconds, so don't touch the car and then you go on.

That's what the regulations demand.

For some reason, Mercedes made a mistake.

It didn't happen.

And that consigned him to the drive-through that effectively cost him the podium finish.

So it was a weekend where, sure, the performance wasn't there, but it could have been some decent damage limitation.

But then that damage limitation was...

ruined by the pit lane speeding issue, which I'm sure we'll talk about later, because it didn't just involve George Russell.

And then that Mercedes mistake.

So it was again, another kind of role of circumstance that cost Russell dearly.

No, they issued a little statement tonight basically saying they were really surprised by what Charles Leclerc said.

They emphasised that Brembo and Ferrari have worked for 50 years and in reference to Leclerc's comments about his situation, him feeling it was impossible, it was unacceptable, Brembo said at present the company does not know the causes of the issues experienced by Charles Leclerc and therefore considers it premature to draw definitive technical conclusions about

before the available data has been analyzed.

In cases such as this, it is necessary to examine the telemetry data together with the team's engineers in order to accurately determine the origin of the incident.

So I think that was a let's wait and see what the data says before we jump to conclusions.

Yeah, I saw Fred Vasseur briefly on the grid.

The grid, I have never seen a Formula One grid so packed as it was today.

I started at the back end and walked towards the front.

I think I got as far as the back end of the Ferraris, the back of the second row, and then it was impossible to move forwards.