(Please note – all quotes from 2012-17 are from races only.)
AUSTRALIA
“They were supposed to have to keep those [rip-offs] onboard somehow, that’s been delayed now, until I think the Spanish Grand Prix – until they build gloveboxes or something into these things.”
(Kvyat’s car is wheeled to the wrong side of the track)
“It’s been on a bit of an adventure it didn’t need to go on.”
“I reckon Vettel would beat some of their guys in their vans on the London North Circular to be honest with that start.”
(Alonso goes upside down at turn 3)
“And that all looks a bit familiar to me, to be honest…”
“The carbon fibre and fabrication folk have got some work to do this week…”
“Renault reminds me of my beloved Norfolk: mustard.”
“It was a proper crash… you’ve got to respect someone who’s had a proper crash.”
(on Haas)
“Hope they’ve got good mirrors on it.”
Max Verstappen: “The whole race I’m in front and pulling away, and now you don’t let me past, it’s a [bleep] joke, really.”
[…]
Martin: “He’ll be getting a detention and 100 lines with that sort of language.”
“He’s [Verstappen] not going to get driver of the day, he will get swearer of the day, but that was unquestionably save of the day.”
Crofty: “I wouldn’t mind being in the debrief at Toro Rosso at the end of this race.”
Martin: “Take a swear box with you; you might make 50 quid.”
“My driver of the day? Sebastian Vettel.”
Crofty: “Did anyone Hassume they could do this?”
Martin: “That’s going to go on all season, isn’t it?”
“Thank goodness Fernando Alonso is in one piece, unlike his McLaren, which is in 50 pieces.”
BAHRAIN
Martin: “Lewis has left the door open… but I wouldn’t have tried to walk through it.
[…]
Crofty: “Where else was he going to go?”
Martin: “Err… brake pedal? […] He [Bottas] was a day late and a dollar short heading in there.”
“It’s like a demolition derby this afternoon.”
“Raikkonen’s like a man possessed, isn’t he? Outside, inside – “wherever you go, I’ll pass you the other side!””
(a camera on the pit stop traffic light)
“Feels like it’s going to clip your toenails, doesn’t it?”
(Sauber)
“They look team enemies rather than team mates this evening, it must be said.”
(Nasr criticises the car on the radio)
“I could tell you a funny story, which unfortunately uses a word I’m not allowed to use on TV, where I learnt my lesson saying things like that.”
(Verstappen passes Kvyat)
“Verstappen saying “if I don’t get a Ferrari or a Mercedes, I’ll have your drive as well as your place.””
“Vandoorne, the Belgian chocolate in a Williams sandwich.”
“They are expecting a better donkey from Montreal onwards… Engine. Power Unit. Oily Bit. Whatever you want to call it.”
“The door was open, but Valtteri was just too late getting his foot in it… like an insurance salesman.”
CHINA
“Personally, I think it’s going to be an absolutely rubbish race, because whenever we big it up, it disappoints us!”
“It’s a “Geronimo” moment heading into there, it’s like, “OK, whenever you brake, I’m going to brake just that little bit later, Geronimo!! Here I come!” – and then you just hope you don’t run out of talent and space all at the same time.”
“Kind of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”, it’s like a half-hearted soccer tackle.”
(Hamilton with a slow pit stop)
“It’s almost like there was a bit of a conversation after that, before he took off.”
“It’s Piccadilly Circus, the pit lane.”
(close-up of James Vowels, Mercedes strategist, with his head in his hands)
“Those cans on his ears are to keep the steam in, I would imagine.”
“It’s like a Formula 3 race with 900 horsepower!”
“And once again, the ex-Renault power, now called… something else.”
(Vettel loses part of his front wing again)
“He’s been an expensive employee this afternoon.”
“White is the new fashion accessory this afternoon, in terms of tyres.”
(Red Bull’s “rake”)
“The back end of the car – you could almost get on a trolley and get underneath it.”
“Jenson’s got all the grip of oiled oak out there at the moment.”
Crofty: “Jenson Button, in what is his 287th Grand Prix.”
Martin: “He’ll be getting the hang of this soon.”
“I wonder who’ll be cutting the highlights show for our boys back at Sky base – which bit will you cut out!?”
Lewis Hamilton: “I am.”
Martin: “Will.I.Am?”
“Just to explain what a crazy race this is – these are the three that ran into each other in the first corner!”
“It’s not actually an overtaking place. Well, it wasn’t, but it is now.”
“Our chart only has up to four pit stops on it. There’s another column on there for the fifth stop of Lewis!”
“Quite possibly – and I’m a big fan of his – that’s the worst lap I’ve ever seen Lewis Hamilton drive in a Formula One car.”
“It’s a little bit of “after you, sir”, “no, after you”, “no, after you”.”
(Hamilton understeers wide)
“Come back to me! Come back to me!”
“Well-used technical phrase, of course: nibble.”
“22 starters, 22 runners, 35 front wings.”
“His [Rosberg’s] turn to change nappies when he gets home. Maybe that’s what he was thinking of when he went off in Turn 9 or 10.”
“We had one demonstration run and 21 other people having a great race.”
(Vettel and Kvyat argue in the cooldown room)
“Rather like Turn 2, wasn’t it – he held his own there!”
“The throttle works both ways.”
“I imagine when that bottle of Vettel’s is empty, it’s going across Kvyat’s head.”
RUSSIA
Crofty: “You could argue that it’s three drivers of Finnish descent all on the top three here, although Nico Rosberg races under the German nationality, his father, of course, Keke, was Finnish.”
Martin: “Finns aren’t what they used to be, is that what you’re trying to say?”
“We started with 22 pristine cars and we ended up with a car boot sale on the exit of turn two.”
“He locks his right front – “underrotates”, as they call it…”
(Wehrlein with a feisty move on Nasr)
“He’s a very softly spoken man, as we know from our feature with him pre-race, but that was… “incisive”, shall we say?”
“How fast can they [pit stops] go? It’ll be like a camera shutter before they’re finished!”
“I don’t know if it’s something to put on the top of your CV, “being kind on your tyres”.”
“The referee should be like cage fighting; it’s too strict.”
Martin: “Dr Marko, there, we suspect, fancies putting Magnussen in, moving him upstairs into the main Red Bull team, for next year, and I’m afraid–
Crofty: “Verstappen.”
Martin: “Sorry, who did I say?”
Crofty: “Magnussen – but we’ll start that rumour if you want!”
“They looked drunk, the pair of them there, they were moving around so much.”
“I don’t think there should be blue flags. I know I’ve mentioned this 50 times before. It’s a driving skill, negotiating backmarkers.”
“I can’t remember which race it was, because I’ve been hit on the head too many times…”
Crofty: “Are you asking the questions on the podium today?”
Martin: “Yes.”
Crofty: “Excellent. Kimi Raikkonen, if he’s on the podium, he will be the main to claim Ferrari’s 700th podium finish. If anything can bring a smile out of Kimi, you might want to try it.”
Martin: “Wouldn’t bet on it.”
“Jenson Button following a man he described as “a bit of a nutter” last year.”
“All four wheels off the track, boys? Don’t bother worrying about the racetrack.”
“The man who can’t stop winning.”
SPAIN
“Lewis drove into a wedge that then had to turn into grass.”
“Opinions are like noses, everybody has got one.”
(Hulkenberg retires with a smoking engine)
“It looks way too young to smoke.”
“Old-school race, eh? Top four in the same TV shot? Liking that!”
(Geri Horner has appeared)
“I thought you were going to come out with some words from a Spice Girls song, there.”
Crofty: “Can he get to the end of this race, 21 laps? The crew say well done. That should be the last time that Max Verstappen comes in for a pit stop.”
Martin: “31 laps, Crofty.”
Crofty: “31 laps. Is that my maths failing me?”
Martin: “Yes.”
“Verstappen using his years of experience nicely there(.)”
“All the stuff I taught him last week at Fiorano last week is paying off, obviously.”
(Kvyat comes up behind Ricciardo, who is a lap ahead of him)
“If he tried to overtake Daniel Ricciardo he’d be about as welcome as a toothache on a wet Monday morning in the team. He’d be getting fired out of that one as well.”
Sebastian Vettel: “If I don’t avoid that, he’s just going straight into my car! Honestly, what are we doing, racing or ping pong?”
Martin: “Stop moaning…”
“Spice Girls song for the first lap: when 2 became 1!”
“Formula One needed a good news story, and this is it.”
MONACO
“The harbour looks dryer than the track, doesn’t it, right now, unlike me, unfortunately.”
“To finish first, first you must finish.”
“I can understand the safety car start, I guess – it pains me to say that.”
“The throttle works both ways. If you can’t see, you have to slow down.”
(Kvyat, who’s stuck at a constant speed, goes past his pit box)
“It looked like they were all ready for him, unless it suddenly cleared – in which case he’ll probably get a pit lane speeding penalty later on.”
(the safety car takes forever to come in)
“I don’t know what we’re waiting for. Christmas?”
“… in the pit banana-straight…”
“That’s the silly lock-up I was talking about earlier on, where you can just go and have a pedestrian accident… an accident at pedestrian speed, I should say…”
(Sainz slides through the swimming pool)
“Woah, look at that one! Well held, son! […] Carlos Sainz grew up watching his dad rallying, didn’t he, and he learnt something from him!”
(Vettel lunges Massa at the chicane, and doesn’t make it stick)
“He’ll never stop that. In a month of Sundays, that was never going to stop.”
“His [Kvyat] front wheels look like Bambi just after he’s born.”
“Your feet is like stirrups on these: right is go, left is stop, and Ted’s got news.”
(segue of the season)
Crofty: “Through the swimming pool chicane we ride…”
Martin: “Max’s least favourite corner.”
“Don’t know how many front wings Renault brought here this weekend, but they must be running low on them.”
(Verstappen crashes for the third time this weekend)
“He’s spent some team money this weekend, hasn’t he?”
“We saw Magnussen in the garage – did they run out of front wings!?”
“Lewis is not going to go “after you, sir”, is he?”
“A fiery head only ever goes sideways and backwards. It never goes forwards.”
Martin: “Got a size 40 jacket, Crofty, anywhere? I’ve just found out I’m doing the podium today. Not in the planning.”
Crofty: “As you say that, a man appears–“
Martin: “With a jacket!”
Crofty: “With a jacket for you at the back of our commentary box!”
[…]
Ted: “… they’ll have to look after the rears, though, they’re the ones that overheat quickest.”
Crofty: “You’ll have to look after that jacket as well.”
Martin: “I know. It’s Lazenby’s very light jacket as well, isn’t it? I think I’ll go for the blue one.”
Crofty: “I wouldn’t go for the off-white, ivory beige combination.”
Martin: “You need a gin and tonic to go with that one. Marvellous. I’ll try them on, see what fits.”
Crofty: “You’d want to be more David Frost than David Niven, I’d suggest. You’ll be walking away with about 10 laps to go before the end then?”
Martin: “Yes. Hope they let me over the bridge, otherwise it’ll be a very quiet podium!”
Martin: “No further action, Crofty– sorry, were you about to say that?”
Crofty: “I was, but you do it.”
Martin: “No, go on. It’s your turn.”
“Lewis had a face like a wet Monday morning in qualifying.”
(Nasr ignores team orders, so Ericsson drives into him)
“Oh, you’re kidding me! […] That was utter stupidity all round.”
“A sackable offence for both of them, except you can’t sack either of them because they’re both paying for their rides through their sponsorship.”
(Ericsson goes upstairs)
“The headmaster will be sitting up there.”
(back to the jacket)
“If it clashes with my shirt, apologies in advance.”
(to Lewis Hamilton)
“Lucky this rain didn’t come a little bit earlier, isn’t it?”
Martin suffered a small heart attack whilst running to the podium during this race, which is the reason he missed Canada.
CANADA
Martin did not commentate on this race; Paul di Resta commentated instead.
This was the first race Martin did not commentate on since Hungary 2008!
EUROPE
Martin did not commentate on this race; Paul di Resta commentated instead.
AUSTRIA
“I don’t know the exact definition of how dry a bone is.”
“Look at Jenson’s tyres, they’re grained like crazy. It’s like using a pencil rubber and the rubber just flakes off.”
“Grosjean applying one of the rules of life of “pick your fights”.”
“We might as well just turn up on a Sunday morning; everything we thought we’d learned in the last three days has gone out the window now!”
“I imagine Lewis… er… I’ve lost track of what they can and can’t tell them.”
“You have to give […] one car’s width. I always think it should be one car’s with and 10 centimetres, rather than rubbing tyre face.”
“You cannot weave all over the road like you’re on the last lap of a Formula Ford race.”
“I imagine Hamilton, if he didn’t have a full-face crash helmet on, will be scratching his chin there.”
“He’s [Nasr] gone soft and soft, so he’s going to have to pit again […] he hasn’t “gone soft”, but he’s gone soft tyres, I should say!”
“I know it’s a short lap, there’s 20 of them on track, it looks like there’s 30 of them out there!”
“Surely he’s [Rosberg] not going to get 61 laps out of a set of tyres, is he? Famous last words! […] I wasn’t calling you “Shirley” by the way, there, it was my Norfolk accent.”
“All’s fair in love, war, and Formula One, Ted.”
(Grosjean outbrakes Nasr)
“Thought he forgot to brake there for a moment!”
“I envisage dummy flying out of cot somewhere here between now and the end of the race.”
“Do not even go and put the kettle on.”
(the author of this site, being a die-hard Nico Rosberg fan, really dislikes this race…)
UNITED KINGDOM
Crofty: “Here on the start/finish straight, a lot of standing water. I think we got the biggest of the deluge. You definitely got the biggest of the deluge!”
Martin: “It’s all in my trouser pockets at the moment!”
“I don’t want to sound like Mr Angry all afternoon.”
“I’m standing up here with very wet trousers. Because of the rain, I hasten to add.”
“It’s only the second race of the season that Hamilton’s led the opening lap. I’d have lost that bet!”
“You keep using the word “race”, Crofty, why is that?”
“That would have been a first, wouldn’t it, if he’d whacked the safety car?”
“That’s unusual, he turned left into a right-hander.”
“And what’s the Kimster going to do at Stowe? It’s not Stowe, it’s turn 1. He’s going to do that [run wide], ignore turn 2, and go straight to turn 3. And when you pass go, collect 200.”
Chris Richards(?): “How’s the track, Kev? Talk to us.”
Kevin Magnussen: “Still wet.”
Martin: “Man of few words.”
(onboard with a Vettel spin on replay)
“Here we go. Enjoy the ride, everybody!”
(Sainz with a save)
“He was telling me the other day he likes to drive rally cars.”
“I’d be a hopeless steward.”
“Fernando, Felipe was in more of the right part of the track than you. […] He might have grass in between his teeth, having gone all the way down the Wellington straight like that!”
“Verstappen showing all of his years of experience here(!)”
“Verstappen’s done a personal best in sector one, but I think that could well be down to turn one being a regular corner instead of a crashable corner.”
“You’ll end up in Northampton if you tried it on today’s track on the inside of Copse.”
Crofty: “That pass on the last lap in Austria, the first legitimate pass by a teammate on a teammate on the final lap since Didier Pironi got past Gilles Villeneuve at San Marino in 1982.”
Martin: (deadpan) “That’s a depressing fact.”
HUNGARY
“It is a brand new tarmac […] I mean, there were cracks in there that up until recently you’d lose Lewis Hamilton’s wallet down.”
“Three and a half burnouts. Not quite sure what a “half burnout” is.”
“I bet the whole Mercedes garage were, like Lewis Hamilton, sucking air through their teeth as he hoped it would slow down into the tight apex he took down into turn 1!”
“If I was Seb there, I’d be thinking “I’m about to go under a cloud of carbon fibre”, but it didn’t happen.”
Max Verstappen: “I’m driving like a grandma.”
[…]
(later, as Button gets a drive-through penalty for “unauthorised radio communications”)
Martin: “There’s two things bothering me right now: that, up on your screen right now, and Max Verstappen offending grandmas around the world saying he’s driving like a grandma!”
“If they’re driving like grannies, they’re going to have to pick up the pace to at least aunties. […] My mum’s a great gran and she gets along.”
(Raikkonen gets stuck behind Grosjean)
“Those pesky Ferrari customer teams, eh?”
(Palmer spins)
“I don’t know if that becomes a warning [for track limits] if you’re travelling sideways and backwards.”
Martin: “Ted.”
Ted: “Martin. Hiya. You alright?”
Martin: “Yeah. Never better, thank you.”
“Raikkonen’s tyres 12 laps younger. His rival [Verstappen] somewhat more years younger.”
“Thought he [Raikkonen] was going to lose the other side of his front wing end fence there.”
GERMANY
(track limits)
“Three strikes and you… might get another strike. […] Zero tolerance(!)”
“Sometimes the door just opens up. It’s like opening your curtains on a sunny morning and you can’t believe your luck.”
(Alonso passes Massa at the hairpin, just after Crofty and Martin discuss the “Fernando is faster than you” incident in 2010)
“History’s a funny old business, isn’t it? What goes around comes around, I guess.”
“I saw young Schumacher going through the paddock with a flurry of media and cameras around him, and the last time I saw that was Michael Schumacher going through the paddock, frankly.”
“It’s good to have the radio back. Is it just my old ears that’s spent too long around racetracks, but I can’t hear what they’re saying half the time?”
“We’re underwhelmed with 2 and a half second pit stop. Ridiculous when you think about it. You could barely change the tyre on a Lego car in two and half seconds.”
(after reports of rain arriving)
“You haven’t looked out the back of the comm box window as you normally do.”
“A few sprinkles will just be an annoyance; I don’t think it will have any effect… famous last words.”
Crofty: “Did I say a few laps ago Nico Hulkenberg will be coming at Valtteri Bottas if they didn’t pit him, because Bottas will be struggling on the tyres? There you are. Whether it would have made any difference had they pitted Valtteri Bottas or not, we shall never know, Martin.”
Martin: “You’re a visionary!”
“My driver of the day would be Daniel Ricciardo.”
“I guess Max is old enough to drink it [the champagne] now.”
Martin: “What’s that all about – champagne in the shoe?”
Crofty: “Maybe it’s an Aussie tradition, I don’t know.”
Crofty & Martin: “Don’t try this at home!”
[…]
Martin: “I feel a caption competition coming on.”
BELGIUM
Carlos Sainz: “Puncture. Puncture.”
Martin: “That is definitely a puncture. It turned inside out and then proceeded to dismantle the back of his car.”
“Three into one doesn’t do. One ends up pointing where he just came from.”
(Wehrlein crashes into Button)
“He put his hand up, as much to say… I can only assume he thinks Jenson put it into reverse gear.”
(Raikkonen’s T-tray gets taped up, having caught fire earlier)
“That won’t have helped the aerodynamics at all much(.)”
(a Williams mechanic dislocates his knee)
“Bit of an irony, isn’t it, that Magnussen goes into the wall at 150mph and sort of limps away and somebody running to get sorted out hurts his knee.”
Crofty: “Is there a chance […] Ricciardo could steal a jump on him [Rosberg] here?”
Martin: “Nothing would surprise me this afternoon, Crofty.”
“Alonso’s driving for a great result – for a change.”
“I’m amusing myself imagining Kimi’s child in a few years’ time coming in and asking for breakfast in a certain way.”
“Outside of Pouhon? Yep, that’s another one to put in the book, put a tick against.”
“Max is just young and feisty, and goes for everything like a puppy dog.”
“If Lewis finishes 3rd, that’s birthday and Christmas for him.”
“There was a decision, wasn’t there, last year to not try to penalise every little bit of hard racing, let the drivers sort it out amongst themselves next time – or behind the motorhomes later on this afternoon.”
Crofty: “If you’re Williams, what do you do here? Do you actually, at this stage of the race, tell your drivers to hold station? And if you do hold station like this, then Kimi shouldn’t be a threat?”
Martin: “I think they’re happy to stay on the road, Crofty.”
“That wasn’t even a coded message from Daniel, was it, about his teammate? […] “One of us made all the noise, one of us got all the points.””
ITALY
“That’s the crowd reaction to a 2-3 for Ferrari. Imagine if they go into the lead!”
“Jenson’s off to have a bit of fun with a great big piece of McLaren elastic attached to him.”
Crofty: “Are they going to send Felipe Nasr back out again? He’s about 8 laps down at the moment but he’s still in the car.”
Martin: “Keep the sponsors happy. Might learn something.”
“What’s that song? “Oh lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?””
(Bottas is stuck behind Grosjean, with Ricciardo behind)
Crofty: “If Daniel Ricciardo needed a bit of Haas-istance…”
Martin: “Boom boom.”
“We saw Alonso passing on the way in to the Ascari chicane. That’s not for the faint-hearted, for sure.”
“He’s going left, we’re going right, and goodnight and thank you.”
“It’s spelt “Ricky-ardo” but he says it’s “Rick-ardo”, ’cause at school he’d have been beaten up.”
(Alonso’s traffic light gets stuck on red)
Martin: “He wasn’t impressed by the traffic light at his last stop, judging by his radio call.”
Crofty: “No one likes being stuck at a red light, Martin!”
“He’s [Jan Magnussen] 42 years old, he was telling me today. And he’s the father of a Grand Prix driver. Who’s, presumably, 12 or something.”
(Button passes Alonso)
“Bit of a nuisance when your ambassador passes your lead driver, isn’t it?”
“Word of the day clearly is “bonkers”. Nice one for feeding that one in, Ted.”
“Jenson’s going to get out of the car and say “I’ve changed my mind!””
“I was watching that from behind a pillow when he launched that move.”
“You said “Bottas saw that one coming”, I think he’d have needed the Hubble Telescope to see that one coming.”
Crofty: “Is there a trophy for fastest lap?”
Martin: “There’s not even a chocolate bar for fastest lap.”
“Going to need a factory just for the trophies in a couple of years’ time, aren’t they, Mercedes?”
SINGAPORE
Crofty: “I Haas-ume that car is not going anywhere.”
Martin: “That’s the worst one this year.”
(scantily-clad ladies in the swimming pool)
“They’ve even got mermaids in Singapore, that’s incredible!”
“Two or three you can get down there, but four definitely won’t work.”
“You don’t really look directly out the front of your car too often.”
(Ocon is investigated for overtaking under the safety car)
“Probably in his Manor, he’ll say he thought it was his only chance to overtake!”
Crofty: “Do we want a safety car at this moment?”
Martin: “We never want a safety car, really, do we?”
“I had a very bad experience in Detroit once with this. You put a lot of faith in the driver in front realising there’s two cars coming past instead of one.”
Pete Bonnington: “So Lewis, there may be opportunity towards the end of the race. Suggest you use all the power unit.”
[…]
Martin: “”You can go full throttle, but don’t use the brakes too much.””
Crofty: “”I’m [Jenson Button] coming back in 2018– 2017…?””
Martin: “2018.”
Crofty: “Which year are we in?”
Martin: “16.”
Crofty: “Thank you.”
(Verstappen comes up against Kvyat for the second time in the race)
“Russian roulette, it was last time.”
Crofty: “That was an easy overtake.”
Martin: “”Decisive” is the word you were looking for!”
“He [Verstappen] just keeps inventing bits of tarmac that have yet to see a Formula One car as an overtaking place.”
Simon Rennie: “At the current pace you will catch him with four laps to go.”
[…]
Martin: “Knowing Daniel, he’d be going “tell me again, go on, go on, say it again!””
MALAYSIA
“To finish first, first you must finish.”
“They always moan a bit when they come to Silverstone because it quite often rains and it’s a bit chilly. I bet they would trade Silverstone right now, if they could, to get out of this heat!”
“Vettel drove into a wedge that was pretty sure was going to disappear there.”
“So virtual safety car means they’re all – I like your analogy of the Scalextric set when you put several cars on and they all go round at the same speed.”
Simon Rennie: “OK Daniel, so the gaps are opening up again a bit. Hamilton pulling away slowly and you are pulling away from Raikkonen a little bit.”
Martin: “I think he can see that(.)”
“Brake and downshift all in a straight line, as you should on the road.”
“Max Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen, there’s a cocktail for you. […] I think the person on the bleeper button is limbering up his thumb.”
Crofty: “36 laps on a set of hard tyres, can Hamilton do it?”
Martin: “Find out… yes, it doesn’t seem that far, really, on a set of new tyres, does it? You’d hope to get 20 to 30,000 miles at home, don’t you?”
“You can tell Lewis has got the car just where he wants it balance-wise. He just takes one steady sweep of the steering wheel to the apex and then he just unloads the steering and squeeze the throttle, it’s just poetry. It looks easy, but it’s not. Look – just no movement of the hand on the wheel, car’s exactly where he wants it to be, no surprises, the front and rear tyres are doing exactly what he wants… he’ll spin off if I say much more, anyway.”
“That is the most perfect racing car I have seen in my life, and I have seen a lot of racing cars.”
“When you do darts commentary, you count backwards very well: what about the Constructors’ Championship right now, with Rosberg fifth? That’s a very unfair question, because it’s quite complicated!”
(Crofty informs us Niki Lauda won the 1977 World Championship on this day)
“You’re a fountain of informative emails.”
(Ricciardo fends off Verstappen)
“”I am number one in this team.””
(Gutierrez’s front left makes a bid for freedom)
“There we go. Goodbye, see you later.”
“Are we going to see some champagne drunk out of a sweaty fireproof boot this afternoon up on the podium?”
“I think there’s going to be a bit of… fan correspondence about Hamilton’s engine issues throughout the season.”
(Hamilton’s interview gets sped up and then cut off)
Crofty: “A few technical gremlins in the works there.”
Martin: “That’s the story of his afternoon, technical gremlins!”
(the two Red Bull drivers hug)
“Nearly as close there as they were in turn five and six.”
(Crofty invites people to tweet in)
“I think you might hear a bit about conspiracy theories, Crofty.”
JAPAN
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UNITED STATES
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MEXICO
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BRAZIL
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ABU DHABI
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