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The Racing Whine, Week ending Tuesday 13 October 2026: Norris claims the right to race. McLaren claims the right to say no; Hamilton takes the blame. Vasseur lets him; The FIA fixed the computer. Next, the people

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Norris claims the right to race. McLaren claims the right to say no

The stewards took no action over Lando Norris's last-lap sprint collision with teammate Oscar Piastri, but McLaren did: Andrea Stella called it unacceptable and Zak Brown banned a repeat, while Norris told the press he had the right to go for the gap.1

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Hamilton takes the blame. Vasseur lets him

Lewis Hamilton apologised for staying out under the VSC, and Fred Vasseur agreed it was his fault, saying Ferrari's call was crystal clear, though it never reached the broadcast and Hamilton's account came only through a Ferrari press release.2

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The FIA fixed the computer. Next, the people

A week after the Sepang software bug, the FIA admitted that a human error in race control left overtake mode switched off for most of the restarted first part of Singapore sprint qualifying.3

Who's Beefin'

Lando Norris vs Oscar Piastri

Heat: 4/5

Norris put his own teammate in the barriers on the last lap of the sprint, then apologised over the radio. Brian of The Red Flags Podcast called it the "shortest heel turn i've ever seen". Missed Apex couldn't agree on the blame: one host put it at 70-30 against Norris, and Spanners put Piastri's share at zero percent.5

Fred Vasseur vs The Race

Heat: 3/5

Scott Mitchell-Malm says Fred Vasseur "got a bit upset about the questioning" when The Race asked why Hamilton wasn't pitted. Told they hadn't heard the radio call, Vasseur replied: "I'm sorry for you, you didn't hear it." Ferrari's strategy came under attack in 13 other videos this week. Ferrari didn't hear those either.6

The Hard Compound

Windsor's allocation this week: hards on Ferrari, mediums on how complicated F1 has become, softs on wet tyres.7

Ferrari. On Cameron Cc's channel, Windsor asked the question directly: "Why are they so rubbish all the bloody time? The ineptitudes and multitudinous at this juncture?" He answered it on his own channel and twice more on Cameron Cc's. Ferrari used a new set of softs on Lewis Hamilton in Q1 and had none left for the start. "The damage was done on the Saturday. The damage was done in Q1 on Saturday. And that was the problem." The rest of the paddock spent the week arguing about a pit call on Sunday. Windsor had the race settled by Saturday.8

Complication. On his own livestream before Singapore, Windsor said the rules are "too complicated for the FIA, for the teams, for everybody, for the fans, especially." On Cameron Cc's channel he narrowed it down to three things: "Too many people, too much information, too much money." He also objected to the word upgrade: "In the old days, they were just called developments." Guest shouter TacticalRab had a simpler fix on his own channel: "you whack me a V8 Turbo or a V8 naturally aspirated or whatever, like, you don't have any of this bollocks necessarily, right?"9

Wet tyres. On Cameron Cc's channel, after F1 delayed the sprint for rain, Windsor said: "Why did Pirelli bring wet tyres for us to never, ever use wet tyres? It is nonsense." In the same video, his review of the race they had waited for was "Boring AF. Processional, almost." He then moved on to George Russell.10

Crofty reached us through FP1Will. In sprint qualifying he said he rather fancied Sergio Pérez's chances. Thirty seconds later Pérez left his mark on Marina Bay, "rather literally", and the red flag that followed is where the FIA forgot to switch overtake mode back on.11

The Creator Desk

  • Kym Illman Kym reports that "Several F1 pass holders and team members have been detained by police in Singapore today" for bringing in banned items, including vapes and e-scooters. He did not know whether anyone had been charged. +1 more
  • James' Pit Lane Fifteen uploads, three with a Verstappen penalty in the title. Penalties issued: none.
  • The Red Flags Podcast The title promised one wanker of Bahrain / Malaysia. Guest Guenther Steiner found two: "the people of the teams and the people of the FIA." +1 more
  • Cameron Cc "George Russell Can''t Keep Doing This!" went up on Friday and "Ferrari Can't Keep Doing This!" on Saturday. By Tuesday the channel had "George Has A HUGE Problem!"
  • TacticalRab "Drivers FURIOUS at F1 Singapore: Kill Switch? 🚨🌶️" covered the missing overtake mode. Lawrence Stroll was reportedly fuming and Aston Martin considered a protest, though on an Aston the extra pace would have been hard to spot. +2 more
  • FP1Will Will ended his review on the bright side: "we're off to a good track next, because this race was shit."
  • Missed Apex Kyle Power on Verstappen's radio failure: "He had radio problems for most of the race. So he couldn't talk to the team. And they still managed to make better calls than Ferrari did". +1 more

Every creator in full

The Creator Desk in full

Kym Illman

  • Kym reports that "Several F1 pass holders and team members have been detained by police in Singapore today" for bringing in banned items, including vapes and e-scooters. He did not know whether anyone had been charged.12
  • It was one of 28 uploads this week. Another was titled "Nico Hulkenberg gave me a coconut". Coconuts were not on the banned list.13

James' Pit Lane

  • Fifteen uploads, three with a Verstappen penalty in the title. Penalties issued: none.14

The Red Flags Podcast

  • The title promised one wanker of Bahrain / Malaysia. Guest Guenther Steiner found two: "the people of the teams and the people of the FIA."15
  • Red Bull won its second race in a row without Christian Horner, who is out promoting his book. Matt on the timing: "What a terrible time for... Christian Horner to be doing his book run."16

Cameron Cc

  • "George Russell Can''t Keep Doing This!" went up on Friday and "Ferrari Can't Keep Doing This!" on Saturday. By Tuesday the channel had "George Has A HUGE Problem!"17

TacticalRab

  • "Drivers FURIOUS at F1 Singapore: Kill Switch? 🚨🌶️" covered the missing overtake mode. Lawrence Stroll was reportedly fuming and Aston Martin considered a protest, though on an Aston the extra pace would have been hard to spot.18
  • "Red Bull's Secret EXPOSED: Banned for 2027?! 👀😨" The secret, according to a report by Rosario Giuliana, is a connection radius on the floor, which the FIA will limit to five millimetres.19
  • On George Russell's sprint crash: "if you've been hate-watching George Russell, oh my god, you're having a fantastic time."20

FP1Will

  • Will ended his review on the bright side: "we're off to a good track next, because this race was shit."21

Missed Apex

  • Kyle Power on Verstappen's radio failure: "He had radio problems for most of the race. So he couldn't talk to the team. And they still managed to make better calls than Ferrari did".22
  • Spanners' summary of Isack Hadjar on cooling vests: "Are we not men? Are we mouses? Are we rats in a chef's hat?"23

The Beef League

10 beefs in 3 weeks so far

Beef of the week

Lando Norris vs Oscar Piastri

Heat: 4/5

Top of the league: Lando Norris, heat 13 from 4 beefs.

League table
PosClubPHeatBestForm
1 Lando Norris McLaren 4 13 4 4 3 2 4
2 Peter Windsor 2 7 4 3 4
3 7 Oscar Piastri McLaren 2 6 4 2 4
4 1 Arvid Lindblad Racing Bulls 1 4 4 4
5 1 Franco Colapinto Alpine 1 4 4 4
6 1 George Russell Mercedes 1 4 4 4
7 1 Liam Lawson Racing Bulls 1 4 4 4
8 1 Ferrari Company 1 3 3 3
9 New Frédéric Vasseur Ferrari 1 3 3 3
10 2 Lewis Hamilton Ferrari 1 3 3 3
11 New The Race 1 3 3 3
12 3 Missed Apex 1 2 2 2
13 2 Josh Revell 1 1 1 1

Heat is Who’s Beefin’s rating out of five, added up over the season. P is beefs played; form is the last five, newest last.

Sources

  1. TacticalRab, 10:41: "Well, what's this race called? Or what's it called today?... it's a sprint race... Yeah, there you go. It's a race, right? Like, I'm here to win." (Rab reading Lando Norris) · TacticalRab, 16:55: "The gap closed more than I would have liked. I have the right to go for that gap." (Rab reading Lando Norris) · TacticalRab, 17:09: "There's no ego. There is no one person that's bigger than the team" (Rab reading Andrea Stella) · James' Pit Lane, 2:11: "Oh yeah, that was a don't do that again, and we didn't say please, that's an order." (James reading Zak Brown) · James' Pit Lane, 2:12: "neither driver was wholly or predominantly to blame for the collision. Therefore, the stewards determined to take no further action." (James reading the stewards) ↩︎

  2. James' Pit Lane, 0:57: "We called them both to pit... and he missed the pit entry. And honestly, it's a bit of a shame, because he's losing a podium also. It was crystal clear on the radio." (James reading Fred Vasseur) · Missed Apex, 26:45: "Lewis has come out completely throwing himself under the bus. And Vasseur quite quickly just threw him under the bus as well" · The Race, 2:58: "There was some glitch that meant that radio messages were not broadcast in this phase." · TacticalRab, 21:41: "Under the VSC, the team called me in, but I missed the pit entry." (Rab reading Lewis Hamilton, via Ferrari) · The Red Flags Podcast, 21:46: "There's no footage of that, by the way. So, I'm a little skeptical." ↩︎

  3. The Race, 0:17: "they didn't activate it. That had to be done manually... they spotted it and enabled it, and that meant that some drivers did get the extra benefit." · James' Pit Lane, 3:09: "The FIA acknowledges that this unfortunate human error had an impact on the performance of certain cars based on the timing of their run and position around the lap." (James reading FIA) · TacticalRab, 14:03: "During the first period of sprint qualifying, there was a human error in race control unrelated to the timing issue that was also encountered." (Rab reading FIA) · The Race, 0:36: "It will use the same software that started the race in Sepang successfully this weekend in Singapore, and will bring a further update to the Kota race in October." ↩︎

  4. Peter Windsor, 6:36: "That is as quick as I can go in this car" (Peter Windsor reading Kimi Antonelli) · The Race, 0:34: "he suggested the idea on Sunday morning that maybe the best way to get answers is we split the packages in the next race. One car goes old, one car goes new." ↩︎

  5. The Red Flags Podcast, 10:37: "shortest heel turn i've ever seen" · Missed Apex, 57:19: "It is 70-30 on Lando because Lando's made the move when you are the one making the move you have the responsibility to make the move stick" (Alex Vangeen) · Missed Apex, 1:01:53: "Oscar Piastri zero percent" (Spanners) ↩︎

  6. The Race, 5:05: "Fred got a bit upset about the questioning. He felt that we were trying to attack Ferrari's strategy..." · The Race, 5:14: "I said to him, we didn't hear this radio message. He said, I'm sorry for you, you didn't hear it, but we gave him the message." ↩︎

  7. Cameron Cc, 4:09: "Why are they so rubbish all the bloody time? The ineptitudes and multitudinous at this juncture?" · Peter Windsor, 1:15:09: "It's too complicated. It's too complicated for the FIA, for the teams, for everybody, for the fans, especially. And it's all so that we could have Audi and Cadillac in Formula One." · Cameron Cc, 0:29: "Why did Pirelli bring wet tyres for us to never, ever use wet tyres? It is nonsense." ↩︎

  8. Cameron Cc, 4:09: "Why are they so rubbish all the bloody time? The ineptitudes and multitudinous at this juncture?" · Peter Windsor, 2026 F1 Singapore GP race analysis by Peter Windsor (whole video) · Cameron Cc, 3:21: "If Ferrari need to look at how they lost the Singapore Grand Prix, they need to focus a hundred percent on why they put that new set of tyres, wasted a new set of tyres on Lewis in Q1." · Cameron Cc, 34:28: "The damage was done on the Saturday. The damage was done in Q1 on Saturday. And that was the problem." ↩︎

  9. Peter Windsor, 1:15:09: "It's too complicated. It's too complicated for the FIA, for the teams, for everybody, for the fans, especially. And it's all so that we could have Audi and Cadillac in Formula One." · Cameron Cc, 0:50: "Too many people, too much information, too much money." · Cameron Cc, 5:36: "In the old days, they were just called developments. And that was a much better word because it is ultimately empirical engineering." · TacticalRab, 16:34: "The level of complexity that we've gone to in this regulation set and with these cars nowadays, it's just a bad thing for all involved, right? Like, you whack me a V8 Turbo or a V8 naturally aspirated or whatever, like, you don't have any of this bollocks necessarily, right?" ↩︎

  10. Cameron Cc, 0:29: "Why did Pirelli bring wet tyres for us to never, ever use wet tyres? It is nonsense." · Cameron Cc, 0:14: "F1, being so risk-averse to a rain-induced track, decide that they're going to delay again." · Cameron Cc, 0:00: "Hardly a glowing advertisement of sprint races. Boring AF. Processional, almost." · Cameron Cc, 1:39: "What are we doing, George? Risk adjusted returns." ↩︎

  11. FP1Will, 3:44: "Sky Sports commentator David Croft said he rather fancies Sergio Perez's chances this weekend. It's Sergio Perez 30 seconds after that was said." · FP1Will, 4:06: "Checo proceeded to then leave his mark out on the Marina Bay layout, rather literally in fact" · FP1Will, 4:18: "The red flag means F1's overtake mode was disabled, the FIA having to manually switch it back on, which, long story short, they forgot to do." ↩︎

  12. Kym Illman, 0:00: "Several F1 pass holders and team members have been detained by police in Singapore today. Why? Well, they've attempted to bring in illegal items, things like vapes, imported cigarettes, e-scooters" ↩︎

  13. Kym Illman, Nico Hulkenberg gave me a coconut (whole video) ↩︎

  14. James' Pit Lane, Verstappen Penalty Investigation After Singapore Pole For Hamilton Incident (whole video) · James' Pit Lane, Late Stewards Verdict On Verstappen After Singapore Pole; FIA Make Shock Error (whole video) · James' Pit Lane, New Hamilton Health Update; Verstappen Penalty Avoided After Singapore Incident (whole video) · James' Pit Lane, 1:59: "The stewards determined that the driver of car 3 breached the yellow flag regulation by overtaking car 44. However, the stewards were satisfied that the overtake was an unfortunate consequence of the significant closing speed differential, and in these circumstances, determined not to impose a penalty." (James reading stewards) ↩︎

  15. The Red Flags Podcast, We found the wanker of Bahrain / Malaysia #f1 (whole video) · The Red Flags Podcast, 0:26: "It is a combination of the people of the teams and the people of the FAA." (Guenther Steiner) ↩︎

  16. The Red Flags Podcast, 23:14: "What a terrible time for Christian to be doing, Christian Horner to be doing his book run." ↩︎

  17. Cameron Cc, George Russell Can''t Keep Doing This! (whole video) · Cameron Cc, Ferrari Can't Keep Doing This! (whole video) · Cameron Cc, George Has A HUGE Problem! | Peter Windsor Reacts (whole video) ↩︎

  18. TacticalRab, Drivers FURIOUS at F1 Singapore: Kill Switch? 🚨🌶️ (whole video) · TacticalRab, 14:03: "During the first period of sprint qualifying, there was a human error in race control unrelated to the timing issue that was also encountered." (Rab reading FIA) · TacticalRab, 12:20: "there were questions on whether there was going to be protests. Apparently, Lawrence Stroll was fuming, and Aston Martin could be one." ↩︎

  19. TacticalRab, Red Bull's Secret EXPOSED: Banned for 2027?! 👀😨 (whole video) · TacticalRab, 18:26: "the FAA are closing the loophole, they are going to... limiting the connection radius between the floor body stay and the surrounding body work to just five millimeters" ↩︎

  20. TacticalRab, 4:17: "Like, if you've been hate-watching George Russell, oh my god, you're having a fantastic time. Like, everything is going your way if you're hate-watching George Russell." ↩︎

  21. FP1Will, 14:09: "I suppose that leaves us with the brighter news that we're off to a good track next, because this race was shit." ↩︎

  22. Missed Apex, 8:56: "He had radio problems for most of the race. So he couldn't talk to the team. And they still managed to make better calls than Ferrari did" (Kyle Power) ↩︎

  23. Missed Apex, 50:35: "He basically said, 'We shouldn't have these vests. It's supposed to be tough. This is ridiculous. Why are we having this? Are we not men? Are we mouses? Are we rats in a chef's hat? What is this? It's supposed to be tough.'" (Spanners) ↩︎