Yes that was a bizzare grid walk and not a good omen for the future.

The concert the night before it started was terrible, it looked like a 60's party without mushrooms and acid apparently! Lots of careful camera angles to avoid showing it was a tiny crowd.

The grid walk was a mess. Venus Williams just blanked him. You could see the gaggle of sochul medier influencers everywhere. He could not move, I bet he had a few choice words off camera afterwards.

The best one for me was when he met Pharrell Williams who just insisted on repeatedly pointing out that he was here with Richard Mille (namecheck those sponsors like a bi!ch baby) so often it was embarrassing.

The actual race with cars was more interesting than I expected but they will need to upgrade the safety aspects. It was good to see them have to work harder off line and the passing places were a bit limited but still good with the unforced errors etc.

I do worry that the sport is headed for an overhaul on the marketing, PR and Influencer side which is going to make it a bit gawdy. Not long before we have cheerleaders and pop-ups on the screen like those old MTV videos.

Thank god for SkyQ, it makes it worth the monthly fee to be able to select which bit you want and FF the rest. Good result in the end. George played the long game and did it well.

Now Hamilton blathering on about the jewellery rules and being "I am bigger than the sport" is once again just unnecessary. That and walking to the grid half naked, which is still better than the paintball number he had last week. Oh how times change. Am I stadler or walldorf ?

Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.