2026 Dutch Grand Prix Zandvort

[aMessageToCharlie]

Wtf is George doing?

He should be fighting kimi to get back into the championship fight, not stepping aside for him.

Career over for Russell, confirmed no2.

Russell showed super loser mentality today. First at the initial start he went over to defend against Piastri (a nobody in the WDC) instead of defending against Antonelli.

Then allowed himself to be dummied into moving over for Antonelli, that is a 6 points swing he just gifted to his teammate.

I hope lovers of "clear number 1 teams" loved that move and implications for the championship.

Yeah, spot on. It's sad to see, but he doesn't want it bad enough.

Maybe Toto made this part of his new contract as he had nowhere else to go.

[PlatinumZealot]

I did not quite understand why did they swap ANT and RUS? Kimi pitted and ended up behind RUS, nothing weird about that. Why not let RUS defend? Silver rules I guess.

ANT would have inevitably overtaken Russell and then after the fighting so would the Ferrari. So it was the best decsion to save the tyres for both Mercedes drivers.