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!
I thought that was Max’s sister in the crowd afterwards but it’s his girlfriend. They look like they’re related!!!
Why are Mercedes appealing against max or car 33 as it says.
Not until I saw the interview
Plently of laps with DRS after the VSC, which would have given him much better tyres for the end
Mercedes can cry all they want, if the other cars were allowed unlap themselves it would have been the same ending.
I think they should get both drivers back on the track for a game of chicken.
No muddy waters then! 😂
Ultimately, all Mercedes can get is what, an apology and possibly monetary compensation?
FIA made the call, nothing to do with RB. They take a championship away and the RB lawyers will be out.
Was just about to write it. This could get very messy. As Damon Hill said it appears this years championship was run with a degree of managing as race as they see fit. This has to be looked at in the off season. This could get very messy and we might not hear the end of this championship and challenges even after today
But if they did that then they would have come out behind Max.
I understand what you’re trying to say but Mercedes had more to lose than RB did.
No different to any team. Cry foul only when it hurts them. Horner and Red Bull would be the same if situation reversed! Rampant in all team sports. Win at all costs mentality.
I'm hoping there'll be some impetus to fix the governance issues. US racing works because decisions are made and thats it. Annoying at times but the alternative is a nonsense of race director having ultimate power but stewards being first in line but also they have to take referrals.
Most important of all Vettel won the overtaking championship! 😀
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You could put asterisks beside a lot of world championships down the years. I'm delighted with the results but there does seem to be a little bit of quick manipulation from race control to manufacture the last lap shoot out. Just the 4 drivers between Lewis and Max. That's all about the show, nobody can be in doubt about that.
You'd swear George was a Mercedes driver.
Mercedes lodging an appeal will not go down well with anyone. Take it on the chin and move on.
I'm pretty sure the rule states that all the lapped cars are to overtake and the safety car them comes in on the following lap.
Neither thing happened there
Some cars unlapped and safety car came in same lap
There is interpreting racing incidents within the rules..
..and there is a race director doing something that is blatantly not following the rules at all.
All this talk of clauses and the protest. Are they hoping the FIA to DQ themselves?
Mercedes have appealed the driving of Max Verstappen as well.
Disappointingly the only winners at the end will be lawyers.
They are claiming Max overtook Hamilton under the safety car I think. He can alongside him alright but didn't overtake him.
Why do you think Christian Horner was always telling Max to ZIG A ZIGGA in front of Lewis 😂😂
Masi made up rules here.
Its not a case of a subjective decision going against you, the race director clearly, unambiguously, did not follow the rules. He made up stuff and shafted one of the teams.
Would you be OK if Masi said 5 second penalty for verstappen for pitting under safety car? Race director can do whatever he wants?
If they stuck to their original decision Max had a good shot at the win despite been out raced by Hamilton. He got the new tyres and gained 7 or 8 seconds due to the safety car. The slower cars would have been out of the way fairly quickly and would have been within 5 seconds of Hamilton. No one would be complaining about this as that's the way it rolls sometimes and it would have been a genuine finish regardless of who won.
If that's for the weaving on the back straight, then they have a point but I'd imagine he'd only get a reprimand and a fine. No way could you strip a title for that.
Sporting regulations are all about the "spirit" of racing. Getting lapped cars out of the way is part of that. Can easily argue the ones that weren't allowed weren't disadvantaged sine they wouldn't have caught the pack before the restart anyway.
As I said the only problem with the decision is that it went against a previous decision which shouldn't have been made.
Lol
I saw him get very close but I don’t think he passed him. If this leads to some clearing up of some the rules then maybe there is some good to come from a messy end to the season.
Exactly this. The standard procedure is that lapped cars can overtake, Toto wanted them to throw that out the window to give a buffer but they just did what was standard. It was unusual circumstances being late in the race and all cars didn’t come through quick enough (which they would have had time to do if not for the call being made so late due to Toto whinging to Masi on the radio) but it would have had no impact on the outcome.
Latifi’s crash meant a safety car was inevitable. Red Bull then made the better strategy call. The FIA considered throwing all precedent out the window just because Toto demanded it but ultimately good sense prevailed and procedures were followed as best as possible, then Max pulled off a brilliant overtake to earn the world championship on the track.
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