Esteban Ocon thinks the Tuscan Grand Prix at Mugello surpassed Monza as being “the race of the season” so far. After a couple of drab contests at Barcelona and Spa, F1 has livened up with two consecutive entertaining races in Italy. Both featured red-flag stoppages. In the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, after Charles Leclerc had crashed his Ferrari, leader Lewis Hamilton was given a stop-go penalty upon the restart for illegally entering the pit lane, costing him any chance of victory which instead went, surprisingly, to Pierre Gasly ahead of Carlos Sainz and Lance Stroll. Then a week later, at Mugello, cars crashed out on three separate occasions, although this time Hamilton spearheaded...
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