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!
Honestly Merc should appeal get the race nullified. Max still wins and masi gets what he deserves for not following the rules.
Because he’s in his office doing his job?
Yeah, why can't he just take Masi deliberately cheating them in good grace.
The people defending this - have you ever competed in any sport or just an armchair fan(boy) This is a travesty. As far as I can see, the rule is clear. I don't see any caveat in there that the race director may ignore it to promote racing/for entertainment purposes.
The previous decisions that seemed to go against Verstappen were akin to borderline tackles and cards in football. Whereas the key decision by Masi in this case is more akin to Jimmy Cooney blowing up the 1998 AI hurling semi final early and then people trying to defend it with "ah shur, Clare were the better team and ahead so probably would have won anyway".
He'd be behind Max in a faster car, equal or better tyres, on a track where a DRS overtake is quite straightforward...
If Red Bull did do the opposite, Hamilton's tyres would have been significantly better, and he would have breezed past...
The Mercedes strategists have to take some of the blame here... Lewis should never have been in that position at the end
That. Is BS.
The rules are obvious. The rules were obviously not followed. There is need need to be a director or for theories. Just look at the rules, look at what he did, and look at the outcome.
He made it up and in doing so cheat Hamilton, deliberately.
Toto being a child it seems
Had it not been Kimi's last race I suspected Perez would have won DOTD quite comfortably.
Teammates don't come much better than that. I initially thought he could have done more when Hamilton got passed but the recovery from there was immense.
As I said earlier, Verstappen owes him a bottle from the deepest, darkest, corners of his cellar.
https://twitter.com/Ryanair/status/1470052196293267459
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I am delighted for Max Red Bull and Honda. They gave it there all this year and deserved the win. Lewis had more than enough luck all season. It was bound to catch up on him eventually and it did. Can't have all the good luck. It was about time Red Bull and Verstappen got some and well deserved.
Well said.
I plan on doing that when I get home to my gaf.
I had C4 on the phone at the resteraunt, no sound though so very hard to follow properly.
Have it recorded so can't wait to get back and watch it.
Delighted for Max.
No, he handed the title to Max in the end.
Same as he'd have handed it to Lewis if it had finished under a safety car.
But he made his choice.
I don’t know why this has to be repeated.
Mercedes would have lost track position, because RB would have just gone the opposite.
It was also not set in stone that the race definitely got back underway, so pitting Hamilton would have meant he’d end up behind Max.
I'm just glad I got to enjoy that as a neutral. Enthralling stuff.
I would say just watch the first laps the fast forward to lap 15 or 16 when you see Perez and Hamilton together. Watch that then fast forward to the last lap watch that and that is all you need to see. That's it really.
Seeing Toto in a rage is very entertaining.
No conspiracy here. RC made a decision and then went back on it at the last second, and didn’t even apply the rules correctly.
Are you going to tell me that I’m wrong?
As I said, Max kept his head when others wouldn’t have been able to, and is a deserving champion.
The fairest thing to do at the end would be to throw a red flag, but Mercedes left him vulnerable to both the VSC and safety car at the end. They had plenty of opportunities to change tyres, but chose not to. They were desperate to hold onto track position even though they clearly showed its not too difficult to get a DRS overtake, and their car was a lot faster than the Bulls with the same tyres on it.
Over the entire season, Max was definitely the better driver. The Mercedes car was much faster in the last few races, but Max was always very close. I'm delighted with the result, and over the moon with the faces Toto was pulling at the end!
That won't happen. If they nullify the race then Max sessions anyway.
Lads lets keep it somewhat civil please. Last and only warning.
Claims everyone else is a conspiracy theorist and then in the same post comes out with one of his own. That's impressive.
How will Hamilton be left with it?
if the race is void, points won’t count for anyone, and max still wins the championship. They can’t re-run it, and can’t just decide to finish it Pre-safety car position.
This.
Yuck. I wouldn’t expect you to have the refinement to have noticed.
Lol an actual conspiracy theory
I was thinking more something like an official complaint that probably doesn't change anything material, but the adverse publicity makes those in power realise that this can't happen again and that somebody more competent should be in that role.
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