Good month - Bad month: September 2023

Good Month

F1 star power

Sell-out Silverstone, drivers treated like rock stars, the British GP gripped by its own Hollywood fever – F1 really has hit the ‘big time’.

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Saturday Stroll

Stroll actually managed to fend off his mentor/minder Alonso in the Austria sprint – rare 2023 bright spot for the Aramco Martin chosen one.

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McLaren’s new meteor

Norris took the improved McLaren to fourth in Austria, then consecutive seconds – so is a first win on the cards?

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Charm Offensive

Apex F1 movie’s Brad Pitt and Jerry Bruckheimer are now hilariously keen to get Martin Brundle onside, giving the friendliest of interviews

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Ricciardo returns

After an increasingly mediocre Formula 1 career petered out, the grinning Aussie is back – seemingly on force of sheer personality.

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Bad Month

Laughable anthem

Brad Pitt needed all of his acting talents to keep a straight face at Silverstone as actor/amateur club singer Damian Lewis savaged the British national anthem.

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Mind the run-off

Surely a solution can be found for the track limits tedium which has gripped Formula 1 recently? Stick some AstroTurf down.

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Chapeau Zhou 

Alfa Romeo has best qualifying in ages in Hungary, then Zhou skittles out both Alpines ‘Tour de France-style’ in the first corner.

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Clogged up

Another race, another instance of the clog being on the other extremity for Verstappen – crying about being shoved off by Pérez after making his name doing the same.

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Pérez on precipice

Pérez is desperate though – having failed to make Q3 five times in a row. Now Daniel Ricciardo is looming…