I can imagine Cavan GAA are already lining themselves up for the money not being spent by Mercedes-Benz 😋
But seriously, metaphorically speaking, this isn't like a case of sueing Circle K just because their diesel happened to be in the tank of a bus that caught fire?
It's like blaming fuel company for a bus catching fire after finding that the diesel you bought was contaminated with another highly flammable fuel and also after finding evidence of fuel company producing dodgy certification to say that the fuel was diesel and not defective or unfit for purpose in any way.
Bernie throwing his hat into the ring as well 😀
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/bernie-ecclestone-accuses-lewis-hamilton-170821132.html
The same Bernie who suggested Hamilton should have stepped down to preserve Shumachers title record and thus legacy.
The man (Bernie) is now irrelevant
Looks like the race will be live on Channel 4. However commentary will be provided by Sky Sports.
https://motorsportbroadcasting.com/2021/12/08/channel-4-strikes-deal-with-sky-to-air-f1-season-finale-live-in-uk/
Masi laying down the law before the last race and reminding drivers they could be deducted points and or suspended for interfering with the championship.

Not like Perez or Bottas would care either way. I'd imagine either team would make it up to them.
Crofty called it the goat vs the kid
He also just said his moment of the year was at copse corner silverstone!
Pigs might fly sooner than Bottas wins another race in F1. He might as well retire next Sunday. With Sauber, the only way is down.
It's sad to see Kimi retiring, I think people forget how good and how quick of a driver he was especially in the 00s. Only Hamilton and Schumacher have more fastest laps than him. There's a beyond the grid interview on YouTube with him, it's over an hour long. Surprised they managed to get that long out of him
FIA reminding people that they also can deduct points. *Wink wink nudge nudge*
Yeah Kimi came into Formula 1 with very little racing under his belt. He was very impressive in Mclaren but poor car reliability let him down. He may have had a lot of luck to win in 2007 but he had earned a championship before that.
Yeah he was great but he has become dead weight in F1 in recent seasons. I'll never forget my year head teacher retiring a few years early and he said "go when people are asking you why you're retiring, not when". That stage has come and gone for Kimi and people have been asking when he's leaving for a few years now.
Was a great driver once but it's important to know when to leave. You can't take his career as a whole without considering the last few years and they're a massive drag on the career.
I thought Hamilton was the only one who dealt in conspiracy theories?
he has a point about the last race,like it or not
Confirmation from Channel 4.
Live on Sunday from 12.00.
There used to be a situation in F1 where not losing a place by going off track was treated differently to gaining a place.
I mean that where a driver was in front and missed a chicane stayed in front would often go in punished or maybe get a warning that doing it a 3rs time would result in a penalty.
Schumacher did it. Hamilton has on mutliple occasions in the past got away with such actions and it was used as a form of defence.
From last weekend, it would appear this is no longer so I hope they apply this rule fairly across all drivers going forward.
What you mean by 'was in front' in max's case is being behind going into the braking zone but not slowing down enough to be able to take the corner, going straight on, thereby 'being' in front?
When was Max in front though? Approaching the corner he's well behind and just simply goes too fast.
Being well behind is not at all accurate, he has to be least level to challenge or be ahead to defend which are the positions he's been in if he's able to use this apparent tactic of driving people off the road.
Contrast Hamilton, verstappen was never half a car length behind resulting in him tagging a competitor on a corner ruining his race. Hamilton had previous for this, to use your own words it's becoming a "pattern".
So based on that pattern if anyone is to be worried about being tagged and race ruined it's Verstappen.
Just seen that channel 4 are showing the race live on Sunday,(using sky coverage) , wont have to worry about hearing the result before highlights now🙂
Turn 27, Hamilton ran max off the track. Warning
Canada a few years ago, Vettel made a mistake and was deemed to have squeezed Hamilton while he tried to avoid crashing. Penalty cost him the race.
Whoop whoop!
I won't be watching a minute behind for once!
Max was in front on track until this corner approached. Hamilton was on the outside and had got to a position of being maybe 1/3 of car in front of max at brake zone. At that point if max can keep it on track if is still 100 percent max corner as every driver will run the other out wide in such situation.
So that's what I mean by being in front.
Now by braking very late, losing the rear and running through the corner max came out in front.... He was in front before approaching the corner and in front after. Plenty of cases in the past of Schumacher under pressure approaching a chicane while under severe pressure braking impossibly late and jump across chicane and maintain place.
All I'm saying is maintaining a place by going off track should be penalised same as gaining a place but they need to do this across the board. History tells us they don't apply it across the board.
His second spell at Ferrari was unremarkable and it's clear he was kept on longer there than he should have been in order to keep Vettel happy. He has performed well at Sauber. I doubt if a younger driver could have got any more out of such a mediocre car. Who knows. next year we could be saying Vettel, Alonso or even Hamilton should call it quits.
^ A message from Alfa to Giovinazzi.
But you agree that Lewis was ahead? Max carried so much speed into the corner that he had no chance of making the corner, the fact he braked later and got back ahead because he ignored the corner doesn't give him the right to skip the chicane? In the last 2 races Max has just gone in in such a way that he has no chance of staying on the track, that's why he gets penalised.
So Hamilton’s move was the same as Max cutting the corner twice and gaining an advantage, while rejoining in an unsafe manner/forcing someone else off the track?
And it’s also the same as Vettel leaving the track and rejoining in an unsafe manner?
Are you saying mistakes shouldn’t be penalised now? Because we could go a whole long way with that one starting with Silverstone if you really want to go there.
Are we seriously still saying Max shouldn’t have been penalised for his erratic driving? He got away with it in Brazil, and then tried his luck again.
This ‘but but Hamilton’ nonsense is getting old. Max is now playing the victim and people here are defending it because he’s not Lewis Hamilton.
Bottas helmet for this weekend is a nice touch
He gave the position to Lewis afterwards. Then got penalised anyway. He also gave up the position in Brazil soon after. For all the bluster in the British media, Max has done absolutely nothing untoward that has impacted the championship in any way. He outbraked himself late braking while defending the inside line on a couple of occasions, never made any contact or gained any advantage, and didn’t go on to keep the position in either case. Massive mountain out of a tiny molehill, drivers brake late on the inside while defending all the time.
Meanwhile the xenophobic media spend all their time focussing on that and completely ignore the fact that Max would already comfortably be the mathematical champion by now if he hadn’t been taken out by Lewis’ dirty and dangerous driving in Silverstone, and taken out by Bottas the race after for good measure.
There’s probably nobody alive today who’s more of an authority on F1 driving than Fernando Alonso and he’s already pointed all that out during the pre-weekend interviews at Abu Dhabi, mentioning the amount of points Max was robbed of in those incidents and saying Verstappen deserves the championship because of that and because he’s been driving on another level.
Of course the media have barely picked that up, endlessly quoting yet another British driver Norris’ inane comments about brake testing instead as that goes along with their narrative.
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