Formula 1 2021 - General Discussion Thread (Read 1st post rules)

If Max remains calm he could become champion on Sunday. Last week he was too stressed and his driving was ragged. I think his father Jos, who seems to be a gung-ho, aggressive type of character, might be a negative influence in that regard. He would be better off listening to the wise heads on his pit wall. He has time on his side, unlike Lewis, and could potentially win ten World championships though not all with Red Bull.

String of bad cars, and a string of incredibly fast teammates who made for very difficult benchmarks he needed to match up to.

He was very impressive at Lotus and of course he was supremely fast before his sabbatical, before his WDC obviously but also after - the way Fisichella struggled so badly in that Ferrari when Massa was injured says a lot about how both Kimi and Felipe were performing - it was worlds apart from, say, George Russell or Nico Hulkenberg jumping a car last year and immediately being as fast as the regular drivers.

In his second Ferrari stint he just wasn’t quite at the level of an Alonso or a Vettel as both those drivers were dragging some pretty poor Ferraris to heights where they didn’t belong, even fighting for championships against vastly superior equipment, which was a task Kimi just wasn’t up to.

And of course he’s in his forties now so his performances were always going to dull. You could say he stayed too long but as long as he enjoyed it and Sauber felt he was a benefit to the team then I don’t think he cares in the slightest how it might change people’s perceptions of his legacy.

This notion of dragging a car to where it doesn't belong or out driving a car or getting more speed out of the car than the car has, is absolutely fairytale nonsense. Its fine for media to use this kind of guff to hype a story. That's their job. But we fans shouldn't be caught repeating it because its not real.

Kimi was very good, maybe even excellent once upon a time. Then he went off the boil and was exposed by faster teammates and he's been barely able to beat journeyman in Gio this year. In 5 years time nobody will remember gio because he was crap. And kimi has slid to that level. Kimi is crap now. He was once great, now he's crap and not worth a drive next year. He hung around too long and his career in totality is very much a mixed bag of reaching great heights and sliding all the way to being crap and coasting on reputation alone and eventually losing his seat.

Yeah I think Max's biggest downfall is Jos Verstappen.

He comes across awfully (aggressive and negative).

I get its his son and he wants the best for him and wants to defend him etc but he should perhaps be a wall between Max and the media instead of constantly talking to them and creating more non existent stories and in fact adding more pressure/hype instead of detracting from it.

I have a smart Sony TV and was able to download All4 app for it so it's possible but may depend on the model of your TV.

This is a nice little video. "I don't care at all if I'm remembered or not" is pure Kimi

Predictions for today?

My predictions are:Hamilton has the race pace to take his time, avoid major incident and overtake Max on track, in the pits or late in the race on different tyres.

If Lewis gets track position then its race over.

If Lewis attempts to overtake max, Max will get very aggressive and it will be up to Lewis to avoid the crash.

One driver who needs to step up today is Perez, if he gets a good start he needs to be aggressive early on and make it difficult for Hamilton.

I dont recall him taking points of Hamilton this year whereas Bottas has done so a few times on Verstappen, most noticeably in Turkey.

Congratulations Max Verstappen and Red Bull.

I'm just glad it was sorted on the track and not at some committee table.

Closest finish to a World Championship ever, just a couple of seconds in it. We shall probably never see anything like it again.

It was for the Drive to Survive contingent.

Have to say that was some season watch .

I have no comments on the top 2 drivers they were out there on their own really . Like a big margin to the rest.

I had for most of the season Lando Norris as the actual driver of the season his performance all season was great , But in the end it's the Dark Horse in the Prancing Horse .Carlos Sainz , man he is unreal. Leclerce has his work cut out , but Ferrari have possibly the best driver line up on the grid , I hope the car is there or there abouts at the front next year. What is it 100 days till we kick off.

Cheers to everyone for post and points of view the season, I enjoyed reading most of them . Some of you guys need to take a huge step back yer very heated with some of yer comments 🙂 as every I sign off for a few months to avoid all the non stories that float around in the empty space .

Hopefully 2022 will be @ least 75% as entertaining as this ..

Till the new season.

Glad this farce is over. Two drivers at the absolute top of their game, poisoned by awful officiating and two horrible team principles. Penalties handed out for nothing, penalties which have had no impact on the result, blatant penalties not enforced and Masi just making it up as he goes along.

I hope next year is a 1 stop snoozefest between McLaren and Ferrari and the drive to survive drama junkies can go back to watching WWE or east enders or whatever sort of manufactured drama they prefer.