Championship showdown this weekend. Will Lewis win his eight title or will Max win his first? All will be revealed on Sunday.
TV Times:
Qualifying Live: 1PM. (Sky Sports)
Race Live: 1PM. (Sky Sports and Channel 4)
Bring! It! On!
Hamilton has seven championships so it's hard to feel sorry for him, but he was harshly treated by the race director here.
You mightn't like Hamilton and despise Toto Wolff, but that race was handed to Verstappen. Hamilton had the race won with ease before the crash
Regardless of rules here, Max still had to overtake, and he did brilliantly.
These men are geniuses!!
Against all odds?
Safety cars bunched the field and he outsprinted a car on wrecked tyres.
He kept his head, and did what he needed to do, but it was no David v Goliath.
Nevermind the fact he had a better car for at least half the season. Just like Lewis did.
Cockyness
**** him :D
What rules did they break last week?
It's gas Lap 1 Vertappen robbed. Lap 58 Hamilton robbed.
Seems the RD is biased against both sides
The only decision that went against Mercedes today was a decision to correct a previous decision.
Well, aside from the own decision not to pit
Sainz finished 5th in the championship. Great result. And Ferrari finished 3rd. Hope they can push on with the new regs next year.
Hamilton would have been nowhere in Imola but for a red flag. He also lucked out with SC in the past. That's life
I'm very happy to see Alpine finish 5th in the Constructors Championship.
That's the whole point I'm making. Max could've and didn't, and that's what gave him the win. Lewis could've and didn't, and that's what lost him the win
Just back from Sunday Lunch Birthday meal with the Mother in law,
Did I miss much? 😳
Because is massively favoured their boy max. They don't care about fair racing if their lad is the one that benefits from the rules being completely broken.
Another statistic today... after watching F1 for 50 years, including on the day of my own wedding, that's the last race I'll ever watch.
As "personalities" I don't have much time for either Max or Lewis. On track Lewis is incredible at car management and Max is a bit of a demolition derby driver... both entertaining enough in their own ways but... race management decisions and team principal bullying have removed any sport from the formula I love. Everyone seems to be saying that this was the best season ever, I strongly disagree and say that most of the turning points of this championship have hinged on politics, poor race management and team principals who seem to think they run the show rather than on wheel to wheel racing on track.
not keeeping the proper distances and driving to slow to bunch up the field.
Season as a whole I think Max deserves the title..
I don't understand how you can change tires under a flag and maintain your race position. Surely, you're being handed an unfair advantage. I know it's within the rules but it doesn't seem quite within the spirit of the sport
Not gonna lie, the most exciting thing coming up is the Wolff interview
And if Michael Masi already applied for PUP
Who won DOTD?
Is there anything in the rules about letting SOME of the lapped drivers overtake the safety car before a restart. If not, a travesty. wacky races. Done for entertainment purposes or to somehow balance out previous debateable decisions that favoured Hamilton. Except that this one looks like it wasn't debatable at all.
Max has been amazing all season, not an undeserving champ.
But Hamilton was robbed.
I someone on twitter say what happened was like
Leading a football match 3 nil with 1 minute to go and the ref gives your opponent a peno and announces next goal wins.
Feels awful.
We’ll see you in March for the Bahrain race thread
🙂
Kimi I'd say, he had something like 40% of the votes
nah fairly boring race.
Same advantage is open to everyone. Even if Versappen didn't go back in he still had fresher tyres
Same as the rule where a SC pretty much takes back all your advantage per safety car..
Verstappen on new softs and gained a lot of time with the safety car. Once the lapped cars had to move out of the way he would have caught Hamilton easily. Then it would be 50/50 and fair. What they did was basically left Hamilton as a sitting duck.
Fair. Would you agree all the Hamilton conspiracy theorists can now shut up. Although they'll obviously be very happy at the moment! Haha
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