Coelacanth

The ground effect was the majority of the visibility issue. The whole point of the regs was to reduce dirty air by having the floor generate the majority of the downforce, then throwing it up vertically by the diffuser to prevent it causing turbulence behind. But this also led to water being sprayed the same way during wet conditions, leading to those huge rooster tails that destroyed visibility.

Theoretically the new regs should be better. Maybe not completely fixed, but it should be better.

I thought Horner and Marko belonged to different factions within the Red Bull power struggle?

Hopefully 69 is reserved for Kalle.

George has been crazy consistent all year. Well, the past few years actually. He's a very, very good driver. And Kimi showed enough promise too, despite ending on a bit of a low (too bad titanium dioxide is banned in Abu Dhabi!).

Thanks! I know I've trailed off a little in the quality of the writeups over the past months, but I'll try to pick up again last year and do better. I do enjoy writing to collect my thoughts after a race but I'm glad someone likes reading them too!

Felt like the perfect final race to represent the season, in many ways. It was tense, but also kinda boring. It was uncertain but also anticlimactic.

Congratulations to Norris. He was good enough to capitalise when he was in a car good enough to be champion. I have a hard time getting excited for the win when Max is showing there are levels to this, and honestly I don't think Norris is even the second best driver on the grid. But F1 history is full of champions like that. Hell, the very first champion in F1 - Farina - won his title despite never finishing in front of his teammate in any race they both finished. And recently we've had the likes of Button and Rosberg.

I'm happy we got an actual title fight, and I'm happy we got to have some tension over the past few months. Incredible comeback from Red Bull, and absolutely insane driving by Max to make it this close.

It's been a crazy year with how tight the field has been in laptimes, which hasn't really meant too much great racing but qualy has been a consistent banger. And how fitting it was that the last qualy of the season was one of the tightest all season. Now with the new regs it will probably be a good long while until the field converges again. Get ready for some 2-4 second gaps again across the field.

That being said, I'm incredibly hyped for next season. I hope I'm not disappointed!

I kinda called it

Yeah I don't really get it either. I think he got some sympathy from how fast and unceremoniously he was booted out of Red Bull, and maybe that lingers a bit?

He sadly didn't have enough time to do it before Stroll's tires fell of a cliff

Alonso is going to back up the whole grid to give Stroll a free pitstop 😂

Not surprised the stewards didn't want to penalize Norris there. Will Red Bull file a complaint?

Looked like it on the replay