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)
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Bring! It! On!
But it's not a matter of luck. It's a matter of Masi making up rules that don't exist to put max behind hamilton. It's not luck, it is the race director deliberately cheating a driver.
Horner Weakley and Newey off to the stewards now
Hamilton was extremely lucky to get away with it on lap one. Karma came back to bite him in the end.
The protest really can't change the outcome of the race though.
"Hey RB, do you know the way you won the race, well we made a mistake by sort of applying the rules, so through no fault of your own, we are going to take the win back. Oh and also, we are also removing the possibility of you getting passed everyone and winning the race anyway. So, because of our mess, you lose the win and also have been given no opportunity to try and get the win anyway. Oopsies"
Where does it say that specifically?
And who is that on exactly
Laughable that Mercedes now want to win the championship in the stewards room after all their talk during the week 🤣
At the point it was called for lapped cars to overtake it should have been all lapped cars and then there should of been 1 more safety car lap.
That's the rules.
Neither were followed.
Hard to know what the outcome will be.
Are you Toto? Your every bit as salty
Why shoukd he take into account championship positions in making up his own process to hand the title to max. Which is what he did.
And was this the first time all season that luck went with or against a rider.
You can't just look at the last thing that happened. It's like in soccer when a player "loses" the match by making a last minute mistake as if last minute ones are worth more goals than early ones
It was Masi's responsibility to let ***ALL*** cars reset their positions before the green flag was waved. Thats the rule. ALL or NONE.
If that was not possible to happen before running out of time, then he should have let it run out of time and the race would have finished behind the Safety Car. Its nobody's fault that the Safety Car incident happened so close to the end of the race, thats just life.
Ask yourself what would have happened if Latifi binned it with 2 laps to go, then apply your answer to what did actually happen.
This race was neutralised the moment the Safety Car button was pressed and Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes are going to be the World Champions in both competitions.
No gamble he was covering off Verstappen's early stop and maintaining his track position in the lead so he couldn't take any risk of ending up behind Max on fresher tires incase of any accident attempting to overtake Max later in the race
Rosberg "he's the he's the he's the......what is he?" 😂
Who supersedes? (sorry if silly question.)
They already do...
Or... Not make up rules at all. The race should have finished under yellow, unfortunate as that would be for max and neutrals. To make up rubbish to give max an advantage and 1 last lap was a cheat of a call
That's irrelevant though to the decision though. Why should Masi take account of one car being in better nick at that point?
If they give Verstappen a penalty for being a few cm ahead for a few tenths of a second, with no lasting advantage then it makes a mockery.
There was no lasting advantage and he gave it back. When the race restarted Hamilton was ahead by a decent distance, so therefore Verstappen gained no advantage.
Any other decision is a joke.
They'll need 2 seasons next year, drive to survive and drive to win.
Rosberg the voice of reason
Ah the old arrogant only I am a "true" sports fan BS. We all watch and paly sport for fun and today was fun.
That all lapped cars unlap or none. Not just the ones in the way of max.
Unless of course Lewis brake tested Max like the other way around in SA.
But regardless, you can overtake a car under safety car once you don't overtake and keep the position. You see it all the time when one car drops back for whatever reason) and the car behind overtakes momentarily.
At most he'll get a reprimand. It didn't affect the outcome and Hamilton was braking a lot anyway. Ultimately Hamilton was ahead going over the line on the last lap so made zero difference.
I think that nothing good will come from this protest even if it is successful. Mercedes will look unsporting if they get this.
Thought surely Lewis could have defended an overtake better by forcing max to his outside instead of leaving a gap that big on the inside.
I can see why bed be gutted by how things worked out better today for max but the race is over now and only a shìtshow having things in the courts afterwards.
What's the basis for that? Under which rule or regulation? You can't claim Masi broke a rule and the only way to fix it is to make up another rule.
May I ask a question to my more knowledgable brothers on here.
Was Ham pitting early a gamble to go on one stop and hoping that there would be no incidents ?
One of the protests is for overtaking under safety car. Was wondering what Hamilton was doing there, explains it
