Sepang

Absolutely thrilling.

We have MotoGP action at the weekend where Marc Marquez put on, as he so often does, just an absolute masterclass in Malaysia at Sepang, pulling away to a four-second victory to secure his seventh win of the season.

And he also reached a historic milestone with his 80th Premier Class triumph.

The win stretches his championship advantage to 44 points over the injured Jorge Martin, who actually withdrew from the weekend.

Then there was Baku, which looked like he might have been able to crack the code again, but like we have seen multiple times this season, he just received an absolutely blowing gut punch every single time he starts to think that maybe he might be onto something.

Then came the engine failure in Sepang, then of course all of the troubles around Singapore, and then of course the time penalty in Austin, and him finishing nearly a minute behind his teammate.

It really has been a trend this year, where George thinks he might have actually gotten somewhere that could be somewhat constituted as momentum, but then life comes in the way and just says, And it was at a time when his team had finally been able to, in his fifth season with them, build the championship car that he wanted, but it was his teammate that was able to get the most out of it, and I know that many of you out there are thinking that there is favouritism going on here, and I certainly think that something is going on here, but I really can't place on exactly what.

It's a little bit too blurry right now, but let's just say that this really hasn't gone his way this year, has it? So what happened? Well, first of all, reliability.

No, he's going to want to see they're working as to what exactly would they do.

But then you're probably asking, why can't Mercedes just simply sort this out? Well, they did try, remember, back in Singapore.

Remember how they got completely sideswiped by how in Sepang the car was absolutely dreadful? Half a second worse than expected? As you saw, Kimi and George were running separate specs.

Kimi the new one, George the old one.

First time we've used inters for more than three seconds when Oscar puts them on at the wrong time because the tire strategy at McLaren is brilliant sometimes.

But on top of that, this is the first time the Sepang...

Sepang? Sepang? That's how you pronounce it, right? Yeah.

circuit has been used in nine years so we were talking about it this is a new track for just about everybody except for the old timers whether it's hammy alonzo hulkenberg the guys have been around a long time but they haven't been there in almost a decade so they got a little bit of a leg up in terms of knowing which way the track goes but it's a new track for just about everybody and tanya was like max might have run it One time.

Maybe the last time they ran it or something like that.