{"id":807699,"date":"2021-08-24T13:46:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T12:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/?post_type=issue_content&p=807699"},"modified":"2021-08-25T05:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:56:03","slug":"formula-1-good-month-bad-month-october-2021","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/october-2021\/39\/formula-1-good-month-bad-month-october-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 good month, bad month: October 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Good month<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

F1’s greatest email exchange<\/b><\/h4>\n

The heat\u2019s increasing between Horner and Wolff \u2013 and so is the entertainment factor. Everyone loves a feud, especially during one of F1\u2019s great title battles \u2013 and email exchanges. Wolff to race director Michael Masi: \u201cMichael we have sent you an email.\u201d Masi: \u201cToto, I don\u2019t access my emails during the race.\u201d Instantly iconic.<\/p>\n

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\"Alonso<\/p>\n

Cheeky ‘Nando<\/strong><\/h4>\n

At Silverstone, and then even more so at Hungary, newly 40\u2019d Alonso put on one of the great defensive F1 displays. Making his Enstone car wider than a Northamptonshire combine harvester is the kind of chutzpah people love the Spaniard for.<\/p>\n

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New frontiers<\/strong><\/p>\n

F1 is pushing forward like never before \u2013 and it\u2019s refreshing. While a deviation from the format we all love and sometimes yawn through, Liberty timed it perfectly, as a carnival-like Silverstone lapped up new proceedings. The sprint might have lost its fizz after a few laps, but overall the new format kept fans enticed throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n

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From the bonkers to the bizarre in Hungary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every season needs a crazy race with a plodder winning to relieve the tension of a title fight. One car on the restarting grid, George Russell sneaking past the field in the pitlane, Verstappen\u2019s car taped up like something from the Clangers \u2013 what was not to love about Budapest?<\/p>\n

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\"Leclerc<\/p>\n

Miserable Maranello<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ferrari\u2019s pre-Hungary press release was brilliantly dour. For a team that\u2019s won at the track seven times, it doesn\u2019t seem to like it. \u201cStill today, the Hungaroring attracts the attention of F1, despite the fact it is narrow, short, slow, always very dirty, with overtaking all but impossible,\u201d it read. Bellissimo.<\/p>\n

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Bad week<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"Verstappen<\/p>\n

Pot kettle Red Bull<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Famously saintly Red Bull, who have never ever done anybody wrong and don\u2019t have a lead driver who arguably entered F1 at too young an age and certainly didn\u2019t serve his apprenticeship by mainly bouncing off other drivers \u2013 is now complaining that Hamilton committed \u201cdirty driving\u201d at Silverstone…<\/p>\n

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\"Speed<\/p>\n

Pirelli Speed King award<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Why don\u2019t they give official pole to the fastest driver of Friday\u2019s qualifying? As good as the sprint was, it didn\u2019t feel like it was deciding \u2018pole\u2019 even if it did determine the starting grid for the GP.<\/p>\n

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Bowling Bottas ball<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Fair play to Valtteri Bottas in Hungary \u2013 in a renewed attempt to keep his Mercedes seat, he tried something different, thought out of the box. What did Toto say to him pre-race? \u201cVisualise how you\u2019re going to help us win the title\u201d? Something like that. Maybe.<\/p>\n

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\"Russell<\/p>\n

Russell-ing up a point or four<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Poor George Russell. Spends almost three years trying to score a single point for hopeless Williams, then gets beaten in the race by rent-a-drive Latifi when he finally does so.<\/p>\n

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\"Sebastian<\/h4>\n

Spinning around<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Seb Vettel demonstrated that he still hasn\u2019t lost it by spinning apropos of nothing in the Silverstone restart. He also cleaned up litter after the race \u2013 rumours yet to be confirmed that this was principal Otmar Szafnauer\u2019s latest punishment.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":786,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[118712],"tags":[127232,128949],"issue_decade":[122153],"issue_year":[126583],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/807699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/807699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807713,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/807699\/revisions\/807713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807699"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=807699"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=807699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}