Oct 5, 2026 · 33 min · 12 segments
Max Verstappen ended his win drought with a chaotic victory in Malaysia, while Ferrari’s tire strategy gamble and Mercedes’ reliability issues shook up the grid. Meanwhile, while Malaysia provided a…
Daniel MoxonPanelist
Abby NicholsonHost
Yeah, for those of you that might have missed the formation lap, I imagine that you might not have though.
The only way that I can describe it, I put it as being like toddlers trying to race, but you put it much better than me as it being like the Lego race all over again.
They said it felt like it was like, because you just have random cars that have to park up at the side or back at Silverstone, a few of them got sort of beached in the ground and things like that.
So then it quickly got past that and towards like, this isn't going to get going, is it? And yeah, so the race start was delayed.
It was supposed to only be about, I think, about a 20 minute delay before they gave us a start time.
But when they did the formation laps behind the safety car, it quickly became clear that there was a problem with quite a lot of the cars up and down the grid.
There's so much software and so many algorithms that go into them and things like this.
And I think we have to bear in mind that obviously we weren't supposed to race on this circuit this year.
This was a circuit that's been brought in to help beef up the calendar after a couple of lost ones earlier in the year.
And the FI were saying afterwards it was a combination of the low speeds, the lack of grip because of the wet track, and the circuit layout itself.
The cars, because they were going so slowly, and bear in mind, F1 cars aren't meant to be drifting slowly.
They feel horrible when you're driving them slowly because that's just not how they're meant to operate.
Yeah, for those of you that might have missed the formation lap, I imagine that you might not have though.
The only way that I can describe it, I put it as being like toddlers trying to race, but you put it much better than me as it being like the Lego race all over again.
They said it felt like it was like, because you just have random cars that have to park up at the side or back at Silverstone, a few of them got sort of beached in the ground and things like that.
So then it quickly got past that and towards like, this isn't going to get going, is it? And yeah, so the race start was delayed.
It was supposed to only be about, I think, about a 20 minute delay before they gave us a start time.
But when they did the formation laps behind the safety car, it quickly became clear that there was a problem with quite a lot of the cars up and down the grid.
There's so much software and so many algorithms that go into them and things like this.
And I think we have to bear in mind that obviously we weren't supposed to race on this circuit this year.
This was a circuit that's been brought in to help beef up the calendar after a couple of lost ones earlier in the year.
And the FI were saying afterwards it was a combination of the low speeds, the lack of grip because of the wet track, and the circuit layout itself.
The cars, because they were going so slowly, and bear in mind, F1 cars aren't meant to be drifting slowly.
They feel horrible when you're driving them slowly because that's just not how they're meant to operate.
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