What they say

Bottas was beaten to pole position by four-hundredths of a second by team mate Lewis Hamilton:

I needed to be five-hundredths better, the weekend could’ve been different. It’s a track where qualifying is a big part of the end result. If you’re P3 or P1 it can really change the end result a lot.

Social media

Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:

今までハロださいし見にくいし嫌だなーって思ってたけど本当に安全性はあるみたいです😅

Didn’t see much when the accident happened but afterwards very grateful to have my halo😅 pic.twitter.com/sdmK5xiyT0

— Tadasuke Makino・牧野任祐 (@tadasuke0628) May 13, 2018

I look back when I was a kid and remember the hunger I had to want to be in Formula 1. I never lost sight of that dream even when some adults told me it wasn’t possible. If I can make my dream a reality, so can you. Tune in tomorrow to see how it all sta… pic.twitter.com/DLyCawZLOh

— Lewis Hamiltron (@LewisHamiltron) May 14, 2018

Links

More motor racing links of interest:

F1 considered Silverstone switch for 1,000th race (Reuters)

“Formula One bosses considered moving next year’s British Grand Prix back to April so that Silverstone could host the 1,000th championship race but that honour will go to China instead, according to the sport’s managing director Sean Bratches.”

Ryan Tuerck: Pro Drifter vs Autonomous Race Car in Human + Machine Challenge (Roborace via YouTube)

Hamilton more motivated than ever to seal ‘perfect’ F1 2018 title after Spanish GP triumph (Sky)

“Before I was like, ‘maybe I’m just crazy and everyone has got quicker and I’ve got slower, or everyone has just got quicker’. But it’s not that.”

Honda gains masked by ‘very frustrating’ race (Autosport)

“It is difficult to measure (the improvement from the last race) because of the different track, if we go back to Baku and try it different we can tell you exactly in lap time and speed!”

Rebecca Clancy’s Barcelona diary: Martin Whitmarsh returns to vent (The Times – registration required)

“It seems that Whitmarsh is not back to make friends and has made his feelings clear regarding the recent performance of the team, with whom he spent 25 years. He is understood to have a paid a visit to Williams to vent his frustration at their lack of pace, choosing to remind them of their former glories and apparently “pissing a few people off” in the process.”

Channel 4’s F1 highlights coverage draws record audience (The F1 Broadcasting Blog)

“Channel 4’s highlights programme aired from 18:00 to 20:00 to an excellent average audience of 2.33m (15.6%). Astonishingly, it is the highest audience for an F1 highlights programme on free-to-air television since the BBC’s coverage of the 2015 Singapore Grand Prix, which averaged 2.77m (16.5%) across a shorter 90-minute time slot.”

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