Good month

Pantomime villain
Burning £80 Mercedes baseball hats might be too far, but nothing wrong with Monza fans booing winner Verstappen. Thumbs up for partisan pantomime antics.

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De Vries dub
De Vries interrupted his morning espresso to save the day for Williams on Saturday and then Sunday at Monza. Give him an F1 drive!

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All about Schmitz
Making all the right strategy decisions at all the right times – strategist Hannah Schmitz has become one of Red Bull’s key personnel.

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Old boys
They might have a combined age of 75, but Alonso and Vettel showed many of the kids how it’s done at Spa by finishing sixth and eighth.

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Money in the banking
The outside being the favourable line into Zandvoort’s banked Turn 1 provided great entertainment, helped by that extra juicy DRS zone out of the final corner.

 

Bad month

Nigel’s NFTs
Mansell launches his own NFT range. Fancy owning a digital flat cap? Nah, us neither.

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DRS train misery
Should F1 ban DRS at Monza to stop the trains forming? The risk is an even drearier Italian GP.

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New Latifi low
Latifi’s 2022 could’ve made up a ’90s-style crashfest VHS already. That was before de Vries smoked him at late notice in Monza…

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Jumping the pit gun
At least it’s consistent: just when you think Ferrari has explored every avenue to ruin its race weekend, the Scuderia finds a new way to implode.

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Not so Superlicence
For all F1’s plays of inclusivity, its elitism has shone through again by its stance taken on Indy star Colton Herta potentially being denied a shot due to not having enough Superlicence points.