[JasonB]

As a child I lived in St John's Wood, about 100 yards away from Lords and my best friend's father was a test match cricket umpire. I therefore had free tickets to every match, spent whole summer holidays in the grandstand there and was totally cricketeted out by the time I was 13. I have hardly watched the sport since. I did watch the final hour yesterday though and was engrossed, cricket has changed quite  bit a bit since my days watching three day county matches!

No interest in tennis and agree that the British GP was the best race for quite a while, LeClerc, Verstappen and Norris are seriously exciting and bode well for the future. I really don't like the pot luck element of the safety car though, the outcome of the race should not be decided by where you are on the track when the yellows come out. They should use the NASCAR system where the pit lane is closed until the pace car has gathered everybody up so nobody gains an unfair advantage. Two by two restarts would liven things up as well instead of letting the lead car clear off into the distance before the green is waved.

Incidentally what is the matter with the BBC? Is Formula 1 of no interest to their viewers? The evening sports section on the news channel and radio 4 totally ignored the race. We had full reports on the cricket and Wimbledon but a record 6th Silverstone win for a British driver was not even mentioned.

Totally agree about Charlie, Max, and Lando.

I'm not sure about the safety cars. I mean, I agree that it's unfair and random, but I don't mind that.