Winners and Losers from the 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix sprint
Nothing quite gets the juices flowing like a little bit of controversy in Formula 1 - and when it comes in a sprint as the latest helping did ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, even better.
After all, the warm-up to the main event on Sunday means even more discussion and eyeballs on what happened (on this occasion) between Max Verstappen and George Russell, and as Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
In the end, the collision between Verstappen and Russell was deemed just a racing incident by those in the Mercedes camp, and a case of wrongdoing against Verstappen - although this was given the short shrift it deserved by 1996 champion Damon Hill.
Verstappen is a loser from the sprint, but we start with the guy who won the 17-lap affair, Sergio Perez. Viewed by others: ...