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 wouldn't go that far, I think it's important the teams have some way to communicate with race direction. But it should be limited to one person, the team nominate a sporting director. Stop the team principals from having that access would be a good start
100% entitled to ask the question why the rules weren't followed ? That lap shouldn't haven't happened.
Masi making up stuff and deliberately cheating one of the teams is a shame for the sport.
The number of protests being launched by Merc, are they doing it on the back of failed protests or just lumping them all in together?
In fairness if you were watching the race then it was over, it was taking the leaders almost a lap at a time to lap backmarkers throughout the race. With those cars in the way Verstappen would have done well to pass 2 of them.
If they hadn't announced not passing then it would have been pretty much fine.
You can't just scrub a lap from the race ffs.
I'm not sure, I think this could be overturned. On sky sports they're saying what I said earlier, it depends on whether or not race director can overrule the rules. If this goes against red bull micheal massi's position as race director is completely untenable, he'll have to go.
This is an utter mess and instead of taking about the world champion for 2021 we are talking about everything else. I said I hoped the stewards and race director had learned from Saudi Arabia and it seems they didn’t as if they’d learned the lessons then we wouldn’t have had the end of the race being a mess.
C4 highlights just getting to the good stuff with Mexico's Minister of Defence Checo Perez
I think whoever is awarded this championship it will have an asterisk next to it. Whether it's Lewis or Max which is a shame as it was a great season...
Heh, said just that in the thread I just started. Speak when spoken to.
Seeing on twitter* that Mercedes’ will be appealing this to the CAS and have formally appealed to the FIA who have 4 hours to respond. This tells me they know already that the stewards won’t be upholding the protests
*it’s from a Lewis fan account and they cite the BBC as confirming the CAS appeal
Ah here, if the CAS gets involved we could end up with Mazepin as champion.
Any sport that allows themselves to be overseen by a joke of an organisation like them deserves what they get.
From reading up on it they can't go to the CAS without exhausting all processes under the FIA first, which they haven't done.
They definitely need to cut out the teams speaking to the race director and looking for decisions like Toto seeking no safety car earlier in the race and Red Bull at the end. It's nonsense.
Absolute rubbish, it's only the desperation of toto wolf and mercedes that's driving this narrative. The barrister being on site tells you everything
Did redbull appeal that first corner decision after race end?
Surely with timing info they could clearly demonstrate that Hamilton did not give up advantage gained by going off track as he went from being in danger of overtake to out of sight up the road.
They should just correct the stewards errors.
Finish under the SC but award Lewis a 5 second time pen for 1st lap incident.
If Mercedes to go that far, then this is going to be terrible for the sport, because this will happen again in the future and other teams will do the same every time that something goes against them.
Sets a dangerous president.
Yes, my post mentions that they’ve formally appealed to the FIA in order for them to go to CAS.
Disgusting from Hamilton and Mercedes big bunch of sore losers.
That never happens, didn't happen for Schumacher/Hill, won't happen here.
Will be interesting if Mercedes go the trumpy route, not a good image for the sport.
At most the rules will be clarified to make it clear what to do in the future, overturning the championship winner would be unprecedented.
I'll leave this here
Horner saying to Masi that "we just need one lap" & then getting that lap, is open to all sorts of accusations especially as it could be argued that a Max win helps the sport. One driver always winning reduces the viewing figures, sponsorship etc. It benefits the FIA for Max to win.
Coulthard and the biased clown commentating with him making fools of themselves will be entertaining
C4 whoring through the highlights. Should be a good bit of live stuff after with updates re appeals etc.
What has Hamilton done?
One things for sure…. the next season of Drive To Survive is going to be on fire!!
I'm going from memory here, but I thought that was in response to Masi saying he needed to sort the other issue (the car and debris) first, and Horner meant he only needed a lap to get rid of the unlapped cars.
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