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!
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
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.
Are you Toto? Your every bit as salty
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.
Laughable that Mercedes now want to win the championship in the stewards room after all their talk during the week 🤣
And who is that on exactly
Where does it say that specifically?
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"
Hamilton was extremely lucky to get away with it on lap one. Karma came back to bite him in the end.
Horner Weakley and Newey off to the stewards now
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.
Yeah I think Mercedes know this, which is why they’re putting the flimsy ‘Max was overtaking under a safety car’ challenge in too to try and get him a 5 second penalty.
Mercedes coming off as hugely unsporting here.
Looks like Lewis has this. Body language from Red Bull is really not good.
Mercedes will be by far the most unpopular team on the grid next year.
Edit
Are you so utterly biased that you genuinely don't care that rules weren't followed just cause your guy won?
According to the actual rules, race should have finished on yellow. Hamilton was cheated by Masi throwing out all the rules. He'd have won if the rules were followed. Its that simple.
looking at the rule (48.12) the quote is "If the clerk of the course considers it safe to do so, and the message "LAPPED CARS MAY NOW OVERTAKE" has been sent to all Competitors via the official messaging system, any cars that have been lapped by the leader will be required to pass the cars on the lead lap and the safety car"
Key here is "any" there is not mention os all or some so I dont see how Merc will have this overturned and for the record while i like Lewis i am delighted for Max, fair play to Red Bull for the gamble and it paying off. Some you win and dome you lose.
With the argument over Max overtaking. He was definitely along side and went ahead for a second or so. Not much in that but Merc could argue that by Verstappen being there it stopped Hamilton warming his tyres and taking his desired line through that last corner before going green again.
This definitely isn't ending tonight. Whatever result comes tonight will be appealed
Care to explain how and no he does not take it to consideration tyres. Also Lewis defended that overtaking horribly
So imagine scenarios
Lewis get's no penalty for taking a short cut which gave him a lasting advantage on lap one to keep the lead over Verstappen who family overtook him.
Verstappen get's a penalty for overtaking for 0.1 seconds by 10cm or so without gaining a lasting advantage under the safety car.
Red Bull should then lodge an official complaint with the FIA for the stewards not applying the rules as they are in the rulebook and inconsistent application of them.
The appeal ongoing?
Ah I just mean the last lap wasn't that dramatic. It was pretty much a decision that decided it.
It's a shame they couldn't immediately red flag, would have been amazing
Yeah Horner Weakley and Newey gone to the stewards. Horner looked like he has been downing a few beers
It’s not. It’s to let the cars on the lead lap pass, which he did.
Just like the last race when Mercedes pitted under Safety Car and Red Bull gained under the Red Flag?
Taking a barrister in WTF Mercedes
Yup. "Any" can mean some or all of a thing.
The thing is, even if they discount the last lap, why should the race be finished a lap early, since Red Bull will then argue that it's not their fault that the race director made a wrong call, and they might have caught Hamilton anyway.
Even if you overturn the result here, then that's not fair on Red Bull as they were then deprived the chance to race the last lap and because of that, it means that Lewis Hamilton has been given an unfair advantage.
Any cars that have been lapped will be required to overtake.
Some lapped cars did not.
Very simple, very clear.
So Mercedes have brought a barrister into the stewards which is hardly for the whether max was ahead of Lewis. Nico not impressed by George Russell taking the Mercedes party line and he’s not left Williams yet.
Mercedes now saying that it was unfair because Lewis was on worse tyres.
I must have forgot the part where the FIA held a gun to their head and stole all their tyres so they couldn't change them.
Mercedes and Hamilton are the worst losers going, total disgrace.
