Motorsport journalist and podcaster
Though the hype surrounding the big-ticket seats fizzled out long ago, the 2017 driver silly season remains full of potential, and officially six seats remain up for grabs.
Max Verstappen has won his second Formula One grand prix with a faultless performance in Malaysia, but Sebastian Vettel was the race’s star, recovering from last to fourth in a meteoric drive.
Valtteri Bottas is at a loss to understand his declining qualifying pace relative to Lewis Hamilton since his last victory at the Austrian Grand Prix in July.
Sebastian Vettel’s championship hopes were dealt a serious blow at the Malaysian Grand Prix, where the German qualified last without setting a time when his car succumbed to a power unit problem.
Lewis Hamilton captured an emphatic pole position to rub salt into the wounds of title rival Sebastian Vettel, who qualified last with a power unit problem.