Russia 2016

Poor Daniil Kvyat is copping it from all sides this week. Not only do the rumours swirl that he's been ousted from his seat at Red Bull but the Pitpass team is showing no mercy either. Chris Balfe, Max Noble and a terminally ill sounding Mat Coch have once again entered the Pitpass studio to dissect the race, with Balfe and Noble adding their voices to the chorus of criticism young Kvyat has faced since the Russian Grand Prix. Surprisingly it's Coch who leaps to his defense, a point not lost by Kvyat who seemed determined to interrupt the show by continually texting Balfe. But if the team couldn't unanimously agree on just how much at fault Kvyat was, they could at least agree that it was, as Russian Grands Prix go, a pretty good one. It wasn't China good, but it was certainly not Abu Dhabi bad, which on balance means it was probably above average. That doesn't all owe to the racing either as the weekend's events provided plenty of ammunition for the team away from the Vettel's offensive on Russia's western front. Lewis Hamilton had chins wagging, and not for the right reasons with the reigning world champion showing all the signs of having been up well past his bed time and having the strops for not getting ice-cream because he didn't eat all his vegetables. Yes, the team agrees his attitude over the weekend was childish, and they're not shy in airing that view. Whatever medicine Coch is on has clearly left him in feisty mood, the Australian taking objection to everything that anyone was saying. He's anti-team radio, anti-canopy, anti-Hamilton and, well, anti-anti. If further evidence was needed his suggestion that selling Daniel Ricciardo for a buck and dropping Max Verstappen alongside Daniil Kvyat at Red Bull is the way forward says everything you need to know.

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Russia 2016 is an episode from Pitpass.com by Mat Coch.

This episode is 54:10 long.

This episode was published on May 4, 2016.

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