They all got tricks up their sleeves, just a matter who got the best ones! They're some of the most brilliant race car engineers in the world, of course every time they will try to cheat or do some tricks to gain an advantage.

Well Alonso was able to win during Renault time with slightly lesser car then Schumy's Ferrari and Kimi's McLaren! Seb & Ham are the ones who have not yet won the title with slightly lesser cars so yeah if Ham can pull this off, then he will raise his status. This achievement is actually really rare in F1 and only a handful of drivers were able to do it, only Alonso 2005/06 and Senna 91 and maybe 90 as far as I can remember since I started following F1. The rest like Piquet, Prost, Mansell, Schumy, Hakinen, JV, Damon, Kimi, Ham, JB, Seb, & Nico all won on top machinery.

Well no surprise coz got many similarities, both German, very fast, in the same team, trying to win the title back for Ferrari, and Seb idolizes Schumy. Some differences: Schumy seems better in the wet, Ferrari was in a weaker state when Schumy joined and Ferrari rebuilt the team from the ground up with many totally new personnel, they seem more cunning with cheating, Schumy had absolute no.1 status through out.

In 1990, Ferrari was considered the slightly better and more advanced car with the semi auto gearbox developed since 89. In 1991, Williams was considered the slightly faster car and again more advanced than Mclaren with the active suspension. Williams kept that momentum going to build the all conquering 1992-93 cars.

Will it rain or be dry though?

Ferrari needs it to be dry coz if wet it will be tougher to beat Ham.

I know, but I still think Ham is the best in the wet.

Well we'll just have ot wait and see. Looking at the history of Ferrari, won't surprise me one bit if they do!

I think it's a bit of both. There's no denying that Ham is very fast but I think Bottas also under performed just a bit.

Since Monaco 2017?

Well it was Ferrari's race to loose and they did! Again Seb screwed up and Ferrari also miss played their strategy, hence Kimi had to fight a loosing battle against 2 Mercs who both performed very well to steal the victory. Once I saw how Bottas held up Kimi with Ham closing fast plus Kimi's tires blistering badly, I knew it was game over already. As the lead car, Ferrari should've just covered what Merc would do with Ham instead of taking the initiative to pit first. This cost Kimi & Ferrari the win today. The fact that Seb was out of the contention so early also played a role here.

Driver of the day should've been Ham as he was faultless and drove a perfect race where he pushed Kimi all the way to make the strategy worked.

Now the title is for Ham to loose and honestly I doubt he will despite having just a slightly slower car. Seb has been making too many mistakes now, costing him so many points already, plus Ferrari also often not on top of their strategy. So the 32 pts gap is huge and will take a major blunder from Mercs & Ham to loose it (maybe some mechanical DNF).

Yup and that's bad and unsporting. It's Ferrari that they should boo!

Grosjean disqualified already.

Yup agree. Seb has been rather careless this season with notably 4 major mistakes so far, or else he would have been far in front in the points. Ferrari probably also brought Kimi too early and got trapped by Mercs. They probably should've just waited until Ham came in first but in fairness Ham kept the gap to Kimi too close (just around 1 sec) so if Ham pit first to try undercut, it may worked also for Ham. Ferrari just could not foresee that Kimi's tires will not last while Bottas could hang on for that long still with relatively good speed.

Maybe, I think Ferrari worry about Ham undercutting coz he was so close behind. I think Ferrari would have wanted Kimi to open the gap over 3 secs to make it safer to react from any undercut strategy but Ham was also fast to keep close, hence they chose to pit first. I think as Seb was out of contention that early, Ferrari strategy got messed up by that. If Seb at least was 3rd after the 1st lap, Mercs would not be able to execute such perfect strategy as Bottas and Ham had to deal with Seb first.

Yes anything can still happen but the chances are getting smaller as each race passes by. Don't forget also Seb screwed up badly last year in SG which effectively ended up his title. SG is an unforgiving street track which makes the risk higher.

Seems this year will be Kimi's last as report is Leclerc already signed for 2019 by the previous late boss.

This last few years has been the worse rock bottom of McLaren, even worse than the period after Senna left and Mika just joined. Very sad to see teams with such great history like McLaren & Williams are languishing at the back badly. Hopefully some day they will bounce back like Ferrari instead of disappearing off like Lotus.

So now Ocon is really in danger of missing a seat for 2019! Now only Haas may have a potentially decent seat available by kicking out Grosjean but Haas is tied to Ferrari while Ocon is to Mercs, similar also with Sauber which may have a seat vacated by Leclerc. Otherwise he may need to settle for Williams but again that's similar to getting a seat in McLaren these days!

Poor Seb now starts whining to Ferrari about driver management saying he should've been on pole at Monza and that he also still needs to race Kimi in addition to Ham & Bottas. He's beginning to stress now as the points gap already big, and now showing his true colors by trying to shift the blame to others rather than admitting that most if not all of those points lost were due to his own mistakes. If he continues like this, he will never beat Ham and history will see that Ham is the greater champ in this era.

This also most likely means that Kimi's time in Ferrari & F1 will be over soon by end of this year.

I also actually think it's better for Leclerc to go to Haas first to further hone his race craft before moving to Ferrari to partner Seb because if he goes there next year, I think he will be destroyed by Seb and therefore be worse for his career and also worse for Ferrari in terms of winning titles if the 2nd driver got demoralized.

As for Kimi going to Sauber, naah I don't think he will bother. He will and should just quit rather than trundling around in a mid-field team.

Hmm quite surprised that Kimi still wants to go back to Sauber. So apparently his desire to still race in F1 is still quite strong after all even just to drive for Sauber, or is there anything not yet disclosed behind this swap?? Maybe there's a clause in the contracts that if Leclerc failed to perform as expected, they would put back Kimi?

Naah by regulation it shouldn't be. They're only allowed to have the same power unit but not chassis.