The good: Ignoring first place, there was racing all the way up and down the grid.
The bad: That Ferrari. Last year we had a car that went, and a strategy team that didn't. This year, the strategy team have reached the dizzying heights of not-actively-harming-the-team, but the car has no go. Given the other two Ferrari teams make up two of the bottom three I suspect it's the engine.
The embarrassing: Channel 4's coverage in general (seriously, it look me 5 minutes which included an ad break before I had to hit the mute button).
The coverage pretending that Norris getting ahead and staying ahead for a lap and a half was a sign of someone challenging Red Bull's domination, rather than it taking that long for Verstappen to figure out which was was forward following the jostling at the start, and then the Red Bull overtaking the McLaren in a lap.
The racing was closer while there was no DRS activated, and I think it highlights that the go-faster button's time is through. DRS was invented to create more overtaking opportunities, now all it does is mean that no one else has a chance of keep the stronger cars behind them, no matter how good the individual driver is.
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