It made Red Bull's setup choices look decent to keep the McLaren behind and also nerfed tyre deltas quite a bit as evidenced by Russell vs. Hamilton (disqualification aside, HAM couldn't pass RUS on track).

I understand what they were trying to do but it made it too hard to pass. Hopefully they get the balance right next year.

Mercs on a streak. Norris’ time to shine is being outshone.

Perez has to be out at this point. This race was a pretty clear indication that he's just not good enough to compete with the top drivers.

Well leclerc just didn't not have a fast enough car under him. Norris had his strategy fumbled whole being a little slow. Perez also had a suboptimal strategy but he was too slow anyway.

Perez, absolutely 100% has to lose his seat if RB cares about winning. Not only did he somehow go backwards to P8 AGAIN on a day the car was clearly good enough for more, he managed to impede Verstappen indirectly for several laps, likely costing Max P4 at least.

The obvious choice is Riccy, he's probably an improvement and he should be in the right mental state to be a clear #2.

I still wonder why they don't give Tsunoda a shot at least though, he's been good all year and purely on track, he deserves it. He must be struggling with professionalism off track still.

I also don't understand why Lawson is under consideration for the other RB seat. Let him ease into it, no need to rush it, let him VCARB it rest of the year.