Whatever the team and whatever the driver, I really hate teams playing "games". I'm really surprised more incidents aren't investigated because F1 is a huge betting arena.

One of the most suspect incidents for me was when Vettel won his first title at Red Bull. It was essentially a two horse race between Webber and Alonso. They changed Webber onto a stupid strategy and Ferrari covered it, leaving both drivers way down the field and Vettel as world champion. It might have been a terrible strategic decision but I suspect it was calculated to achieve what it did.

There have been many more dubious outcomes over the years. I dismissed the Piquet Jnr claims as fantasy only for them to be proven true

Agreed 100% and how embarrassing for his Father!

Lauda is just trying to repair the likely damage that he caused when he came out and blamed Lewis well ahead of any investigation by the stewards.
What Lewis accepted blame for is for not delivering any points and for damaging the car. He did not apologize for having caused the crash.
As a one time high speed driver and track day participant the way that I see it is that as Nico was running down on power he did not want Lewis to pass him, so he carried out a blocking manoeuvre designed to either get Lewis to crash one way or the other. Nico already did the same in the first lap a couple of races ago.
But these are the kind of things that fire up Lewis. Now that he knows that Nico is using the burst mode on the engine settings (I think the Merc guys call it strap 6) things will get interesting at the start. In the old days of the pit giving drivers instructions Lewis used to ask during the race if and when he was allowed to use strap 6. It uses more fuel and the engine gets hotter quicker. Nico is obviously using it sneakily at the start of each race. It is not that Lewis is having a bad start. But this crash has inadvertently given away what Nico is doing to pull away quicker. Lewis would have taken note.

He has always been a bit of a twonk towards Hamilton. Clearly doesn't like him.

It's interesting to read what some of the drivers have said about the incident. They all seem to think that Nico blocked Lewis when he realized he was running down on power and Lewis was closing in fast.

That Red Bull car is really coming good now, Newey's aero design superb as usual.

I'll have to watch it later when I get home. I see Red Bull have come on just as predicted. All that chassis ever needed was a decent engine.

Absolutely storming lap from Ricciardo, well deserved pole. I wonder what happened to Hamilton's engine?

Somehow, Hamilton MUST get past Rosberg tomorrow to keep his championship chances realistic.

Mercedes have had a huge engine advantage. Now the others are narrowing the gap, they can't afford to cruise any more. This is bringing out the inevitable vulnerabilities IMO. Of course, Monaco isn't exactly typical of F1 tracks, but the season does seem to be more openly contested than the last two. A big consolation for me will be seeing less gloating interviews from Toto Wolff. In fact, seeing less of Toto in general is a good thing AFAIC.