Max is all hype like I have been saying all the time, Riccardo schooled the dipshit hype boy on how overtaking should be done. Pathetic. The pos must be booted out of F1. A safety liability.

I agree, Ricciardo really stood out today. Also impressive were Bottas, Hülkenberg and Alonso. Not at all impressed by Verstappen this season, sure he's fast over one lap but he's too hot-headed in the race. Disappointed by the Toro Rosso drivers today, also Grosjean disappointed (Haas expressed interest in Wehrlein last year, maybe they'll sign him instead of Grosjean next year...). Leclerc needs to step up as well, lost over 20 sec to Ericsson during last stint. Sainz and Vandoorne... their team-mates are making them look bad.

If this is the Verstappen we'll see for 2018, Im not impressed. Being fast is one thing, but being just fast wont make you a champion. Ricciardo is far more consistent and in that respect he is more valuable for RB. Grosjean has pretty much been steamrolled this year. I dont think Wehrlein would be a bad choice, but not sure if they are genuinly interested in him.

I didnt really expect STR to do well here, but either way its disappointing. Mind, this track is pretty much their worst nightmare, along with Canada and Baku. So now one of them is gone.

Raikkonen was damn lucky to finish on the podium. The should have been 6th because of his poor pace and allowing Ferrari once again to compromise his strategy to benefit Sebastian. Amazing race though! Ricardo was spectacular. Verstappen was a mess and has been a mess this year, anyone questioning his talent is simply a hater, but he is definitely driving very poorly right now. Also, I'm not expecting more quotes from Gasly or Franz Tost congratulating themselves in the Honda switch, no more "Now we can fight." Conversely, it was strange but exciting to see Alonso fighting with Vettel for position.

Ferrari were incomprehensibly slow witted this race. First Kimi were forced from P2 to P4, then they let themselves be undercut by Merc', and then they didnt let Kimi in with the Red Bulls. Really silly stuff.

Really bad performance, and that incident was so unnecessary.

Better than the worst doesnt make it good. As I've said before: RB perform well despite the Renault PU, not thanks to it. As for where Honda is: probably worse than Renault still, but its hard to gauge. 'member, where were the Merc' teams today, and on a power hungry track to boot?

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Red Bull didn't win thanks to the PU, but rather in spite of it, as Calle says. Red Bull lucked out with neither Ferrari nor Mercedes being able to switch rubber, as they allegedly had already passed the pit entry.
Ricciardo took full advantage of being on the Supersofts, Verstappen not so much.

Bottas and Vettel did already pass the pit entry when the SC came out, but Raikkonen and Hamilton didn't. I was very surprised to see them not go in and change tyres.

Yeah, I've read that after the fact. The broadcaster in Denmark went to commercial just before everything went down.

It was a very weird time to send out the safetycar out though. I guess (unofficially) it was done to shake things up. And shake things up it certainly did.
But yeah, Kimi and Hamilton should've definitely been pulled in, weird call by both Ferrari and Mercedes - if nothing else to hedge their bets, so to speak.

Don’t think Helmut Marko will pipe up quite so quickly for TR after that result. On out and out power maybe Honda not that much further forward and Bahrain served them kindly.

Bahrain an China are different tracks for many reasons. Weather, sand, China with long fairly fast corners and a longer straight.

In china cars run surprising long at top speed because turn 13 is a fast corner before very long straight. Fast corners require downforce. But long run at top speed exposes cars that have poor drag-to-lift characters while engine power and specially MGU-H performance is important to maintain good top speed.

China: Mix of slow and fast corners and high speed straights
Bahrain: Mix of slow and medium corners and medium speed straights. (There is high speed corners but they are short and mostly in positions where nearby slow corners dominate performance)

A lot of hating on Renault. I find it so absurd for people to say that Red Bull won in spite of Renault. I suppose that a Renault engine won 6 out of the last 12 or 13 years on chassis alone. I think Honda will keep getting better, it does seem like they have sorted out reliability, which they never managed.to do in 3 years with McLaren. But I think those (especially Franz Tost) that spoke very boldly about their performance in Bahrain being their true pace, or Gasly mocking Alonso saying "Now we can fight"... They all have egg on their face.

You'll find that reasoning strange, until you find out that Renault has been behind the other suppliers in terms of power for many years now. We are talking pre-hybrid era Renault, the one Red Bull one championships with. It wasnt as bad as it is now, it was negligible in comparison, but it was still the worst out of three. And now, despite being in F1 since the genesis o the hybrid era, they are still just slightly above Honda. I dont really find that to be an impressive record.

But I do hope Tost will shut up now. What Honda need is caution and patience, like what Tanabe is trying to have, but there they all go babbling about.

Fernando did a good job, but really he owes that maneuver all to Verstappen rather than his own pace.