Alright, I promise you I'll stop posting about Carlos' podium, but before I do that, let me just talk a bit about Alex, whom I've neglected to mention up until now.

For this team, this podium felt like a win.💙

Ladies and gentlemen, they have fixed the question submission form!✨ It's always hard to find technical questions after such a good result because "Who cares? We got a podium!!!🍾🎆🥳" but I feel like we should take every opportunity to gain a bit more insight into the sport.

Williams put this out on X, making it look like Carlos is on the cover of "Driver of the Day" magazine.😅 Joking aside, I'm really happy for his achievement, even if it's on a bit of a backseat to the actual trophy. His drive was phenomenal, and he absolutely deserves it.👏💙

Carlos: "2-hour drive, but we'll make it 1 and a half" Charles: "No!" Carlos: "No. Never!"😉 Excuse me, officer! That man who just got a trophy for being good at driving really fast is speeding...!

Carlos and James did the end-of-day report together, probably because they are trying to make me cry. I love them both so much 💙

Fun fact: In Tangled, Eugene (Flynn) was designed by gathering a bunch of women and asking them about what they find attractive in a man. They called this the "Hot Man Meeting" This story has absolutely no connection to Carlos. Whatsoever. Don't know why I'm bringing it up now.🤷‍♀️

Toto and Mercedes sent a care package to JV!💙 📸 Mercedes-AMG Passion Club on X

Any predictions of safety cars? VSCs? Red flags? Or just the opposite: a clean race? #AzerbaijanGP

After his successful prediction for Monza, I asked my husband how long he thought this race was going to be. His response: "yeah, I'm not touching that"🤣

Carlos's assessment is here, too! He's smiley and happy and chatty, and he even gives a special shoutout to sparkles!🥺

Bit of a surprise, it's James to give his assessment at the end of the day (normally it would be Carlos). Also, I'm not sure I like how proud he is of the team for finally getting the tyres right. I mean, it was the mediums! Whatever, let's just be happy today.💙

Quali is in five minutes. Are you guys here or will it be as lonely as the FP3 was?🤔 #AzerbaijanGP

Still can't get over this phenomenal Team Torque. James: You respond really quickly [to texts]. You're really good! Carlos: ...Because you're my boss...? 🤣🤣🤣

Note to self: Stroopwafels taste really good after they have been softened in the steam of freshly made tea. They taste substantially worse after they fell into a fresh cup of tea...

Quali day! How are we feeling? I'll be interested to see how Williams performs in FP3, and then I guess hope for the best for quali, knowing full well they are going to suffer on the soft tyres. #AzerbaijanGP

What an amazing team torque! If you only ever listen to one, make it this one because it is so beautiful, the way these two interact. I will say it starts slow, but once they get to talking about racing, it's like they are in their own world! And they get to joking at the end. Brilliant!👌

Friday morning team talk. Tyres are on everyone's mind. Carlos is excited because we are supposed to perform well here. James started his part about the appeal, saying that the team stood up for what they thought was right, before mentioning tyres, weather and that there are 8 more to go!

FP1 is about to start. How are we feeling about this weekend? #AzerbaijanGP I've been to Baku once. It was pretty fun, but it's not all how it looks on TV.

Remember when earlier in the season, there was supposed to be a live Q&A with both Alex and Carlos, but the Spaniard never showed? Well, today is the day - we are having a redo, and I will be doing commentary. I hope I got the timing right, but it is supposed to be in 25 minutes.

James Vowles is driving a racecar again! 🤩 He spent 2 days in Spain with Garage59, his usual team. I can't help but notice the amount of detail on his suit: sponsor logos, graphic design, etc. In his posts, he hinted at "more to follow" so stay tuned!👀 📸 jv.f1 on Instagram

JV goofing in the first row!🤩

So I've got a fever, sore throat, and headache, plus wonderful dizziness. 🤒 Not my best days. On the other hand, Carlos' penalty was overturned🥳

I finally deactivated my Netflix account. I keep getting my heart broken by series whose first season I enjoyed taking a nosedive in quality in their second season. That's worse than the show being bad in the first place! I'm trying to decide what else to spend that money on. Is F1TV worth it?

"I asked ChatGPT" this, "I asked Grok" that... Well, I asked James Vowles about the appeal, and he said it was a good question!

The Vowles Verdict is here and - drumroll, please! - WE'RE BACK, BABY!🙌 That is, the first question is from me, and yes, that is exactly how I expected British people to pronounce my name.😅

I had a lovely conversation with some people from BME Motorsport, the formula student team of the university I work/do my PhD at. They were super friendly and helpful and it was very informative for me.😊

Pictures of James and Lewis together that I shamelessly stole from Kristina:

As a Computer Scientist, I am beyond disbelief at this point about how the form on the Williams Racing app/website keeps resetting, making me unable to submit a single question to the Vowles Verdict. I tried it from the app on my phone as well as Chrome and Edge desktop browsers.

Today in conversations between F1 couples: Me: The race is about to start. Would you mind watching the little one for about 1.5-2 hours, so I can watch it in peace? Husband: I mean, it's Monza... Me: So? Husband: It's more like 1 hour 14 minutes #ItalianGP

JV x Lewis content! 💙 For those of you boycotting X, JV and Lewis were seen walking to/from the Pirelli picture, talking. (Downloading videos from X is a hassle; otherwise, I'd upload it here.)

Hilarious bit by the Williams drivers giving advice to their fans. 🤣 Also, not only does Alex remember "Magyar nagydíj" (Hungarian grand prix), he even pronounces the first bit well. 😮(He kind of butchers the second word, but my language is super hard, so I can't really fault him for it.)

Alex reports that the problem was that they couldn't get the soft tyres in the right window under quali conditions. He also admits they don't have a clue how to fix this recurring problem.

#ItalianGP quali time! How are we feeling? I don't want to get my hopes up because of yesterday, so I'm making my prediction based on FP3: 1 car in Q2 and one in Q3

Happy FP3, everyone! #ItalianGP

Super important thread!👇👇👇 Radical idea: why don't we put AI to good use and create software that changes the footage sent to the stewards so that they don't see the real livery (or other unique characteristics) of the cars, but some rendered one, and they can judge incidents on merit without bias

I opened the Williams Racing website to check if there was a usual end-of-day assessment from Carlos, but instead I found JV's team talk from this morning. Let me tell you, it is hilarious! 💙

Our good free practice sessions gave me a great excuse to show this clip of James Vowles reacting to the first time the team did relatively well after he became TP 💙

We're 12 minutes into FP2. Red flag. Currently, Alex P8, Carlos P12. #ItalianGP

Gentlemen, start your engines! FP1, let's gooo! #ItalianGP

The police were checking drivers in front of our garage (they do that sometimes because we have the only two-car driveway around here), and although they offered to move, we brought our son home by bike today.🚴 Good decision, as he got really excited upon seeing the police car when we got home.👮🚓

Okay, this is cute

It seems a bit late, but I'm happy to see they aren't letting the stewards get away with a bad call!

📣The Vowles Verdict is here! Some interesting questions and some old ones. I really wish James had said more about what happened when Carlos talked to the stewards - although I think it's safe to assume that they did not have a good justification for their decision...

I have this curtain that is a bit too short for the window and it has been bugging me for a while, but today I found a way to fix it. 😆

Today I have to attend a type of meeting I've never attended before. I'm probably going to be the greenest person in there. I appreciate the opportunity, but I am a bit anxious.

I feel the need... the need for speed. Let's gooooo! #DutchGP

Williams besties!💙

Many cars haven't even been on track yet, and Stroll has already crashed the car. I'll say that's efficient. #DutchGP

Regular FP3 shenanigans, in that 10 minutes have passed and most cars have yet to come out of the garage, but I'll take it after the last month of 0 F1 action. 🤷