Vettel gone. Alonso broke camp and snapped up the drive at Aston. Alpine may end up losing two of their drivers, and the Honey Badger may or may not have a seat next year (lest he goes back to Alpine).

Ferrari is, well, being Ferrari, and possibly pissing away chances in both championship standings. Max and RB is looking like 2015 Lewis and Petronas, with the chance to wrap up the drivers 'chip a few races before the end. Mercedes is playing the little train that could, slowly but surely making gains. At this point I'd rather the gains push out to next season, but we will see. They seem to be getting around the bouncing of the car. Now they need to get the tires fired up quicker (once a strong point of their cars, but with the new regs and new cars they haven't quite got that sorted yet). Coming in 2nd or 3rd wouldn't be the worst thing this year, really, as they would have more wind tunnel and testing time to sort out their concept and be on it from go for '23. Just as long as Lewis gets 8 I don't care what happens after that.