As the clock ticked down to under two minutes, to all but (seemingly) those actually involved, it was inevitable that those drivers hoping to get in their final/only qualifying hot lap, they were rapidly running out of time. And so, with the air of Messrs Hulkenberg, Stroll and Sainz it proved to be, and not for the first time F1 made it beyond the sports pages for all the wrong reasons. Following, what Toto Wolff described as the 'absurdity' of the session, Lewis Hamilton also hit out at the tactics. 'It is definitely a bit of an anti-climax that we couldn't all go out and do that last final lap,' said the Briton, 'that's one of the most exciting ones we have. 'It's crazy with this timing...
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