It's exciting to add a couple new entries into the rising stars roster of 2017. There's a lot of them now isn't there?
Ocon, Stroll, Magnussen, Vandoorne, Gasly, Wehrlein, Hartley.
F1 isn't hanging on to it's old vets lately (except Massa).
Mexico then, obviously the standouts were Ocon and Stroll, great drives from both. Magnussen as well actually. They're all coming into their own now and it's amusing to see Perez having difficulty beating Ocon. He must be hating it.
Vandoorne was decent but not quite on Alonso's pace. Still, when Alonso was team mates with Kimi and Massa, he'd leave them 20-40secs behind. Vandoorne was remaining within 5-10secs of Alonso after they'd ordered him to move aside. So still a decent performance.
Gasly and Hartley doing a good job considering someone must have thrown a bag of bolts into both their engines before being fired
The fact that they're both fighting for positions between McLaren, Haas, Williams, Sauber is a good sign. It would be quite easy for a new driver to come in and be way off the pace, a bit like Vandoorne was early in the year. But both drivers are right on it in a car that has probably had little development this year and is really just a test team for RB, what with them switching to Honda next year which I assume is nothing more than a test to compare it to the main teams' Renault.