I was the one who gave it a 4 and I am a Hamilton fan. It was a ok race, it wasn't a great race. People are over scoring it based on overtakes from a massively over powerful DRS. It's very little to do with driver skill apart from the few non DRS aided overtakes. LeClerc deserved the win and would have won comfortably if he didn't have mechanical problems. If he didn't have problems then Hamilton wouldn't even have come close to challenging him for the lead. I have been watching races since the early 80's and this would be nowhere on a list of great races. People are too easily pleased these days.
I gave it a ten and that was purely compared to races over the last 5 years or so, basically the hybrid era.
Granted races 20, 30, 40+ years ago were far more entertaining, exciting, thrilling and had bucket loads more skill and bravery on show.
However, I reckon it's the same as trying to compare drivers of different generations, you just can't, far too many variables involved.
Compare like for like, and ok minus a few small reg changes over last few years basically hybrid car races are comparable to each other, and this by far was the most entertaining.
Not just for actual completed overtakes, but all the tried for ones that involved some incredible wheel to wheel racing at times, and all sorts of other incidents that culminated in a race where i was glued to the screen throughout, not once did I even think, Oh I will go get a coffee this is going to be the same for the next 10 mins, almost every lap had something happen.
As for DRS I like it, yes it needs a bit of tweaking now the cars appear to be a bit easier to follow after this year changes, but F1 needs something like it.
Indy has push to pass, so if we get rid of DRS maybe introduce a version of that instead, either way there needs to be something that gives it all a bit of a shake up.
