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Jay Freeman
Postpublished at 14:31 BST 23 August
14:31 BST 23 August
Marc Priestley Former F1 mechanic on Sports Extra
When you're not super comfortable with your car you end up pushing more than you should. I don't think many drivers would have had that much confidence going into that final corner. It looks like it was an uncharacteristic Max Verstappen error.
Possible race stategy is a one-stop or a two-stop. All the drivers on the mediums looking for that switchover from the mediums to the hards. Everyone that is starting on the softs are looking for that two-stop with two sets of mediums strapped to the car.
F1 teams are exceptionally good at dealing with chaos when it happens. I think there'll be a lot of people up and down the grid that see this as a real opportunity now.
Watching Nico Hullkenberg's on board, that looked like a scene out of the F1 movie. You come through the smoke and there's a car in pieces. I don't know how Hulkenberg made it through that.
Having just seen a replay of Max Verstappen's crash again, here's what's even more scary.
Gabriel Bortoleto comes into the corner and spins at virtually exactly the same point at Max.
But what happens next is bonkers. Bortoleto's Audi team-mate Nico Hulkenberg can't slow down as he spins, and he narrowly goes through a cloud of tyre smoke without colliding into him.
Before the start of the race, one would have voted for Verstappen and Hamilton to do better in the wet race. Hamilton dropped a place and Max is out. That's how unpredictable the race is.
So to go back to the start of the race, it was a pretty unfortunate start for Lewis Hamilton who was beaten to the punch into turn one by Charles Leclerc and then Oscar Piastri takes advantage and goes in though his right.
Likewise, just behind him, Max Verstappen had briefly drifted onto the grass at the left of the straight before he kept control of his car headed into the first corner.
That explains Liam Lawson's move shortly after, then.
Penny for the thoughts of race leader Lando Norris. Having cleanly got away, he'll now have Kimi Anonelli breathing down his neck at the restart.