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!
They've done that forever. What they need to do is stop broadcasting it to tv. All teams are obliged to try every argument to help their drivers win a race.
I think it just comes across badly on tv. It would be like having a live mic on the captain of a Premier League team
Toto said earlier in the race to Masi "no safety car please Michael" and no safety car came out. Open to all sorts of accusations.
They need to cut it out next season but you can't overturn the championship winner this season because of a potential procedural error by the race director.
I think this is the only get out that the FAI have. Are the rules set in stone or does the race director have some leeway ?
a bit like Toto telling Masi not to throw a safety car when Gio pulled off at T9
Hamilton has been nothing but gracious
In fairness to Hamilton (and his father) he congratulated Verstappen after the race. He put his hand out and congratulated the winner.
This whole fiasco is being driven by Wolff and the suits at Mercedes.
Going to CAS would be a complete joke. The season is a year long and has loads of decisions you could argue. If it goes to CAS RB could bring loads of what they thought was unfair in the season.
Ultimately in sport you may disagree with decisions but whatever the referee/stewards decide should be final.
I wanted Max to win but it’s pretty obvious that last lap can’t stand and this is going to be given to LH surely.
Sainz had two cars ahead of him that shouldn’t have been there for example - it was a complete farce, Masi has really f**ked it under pressure.
He would tell his team not to be doing all the protests if he was really gracious, just saving face in public.
It’s the indecision that makes made Masi look bad today. Lapped cars can’t overtake, then the ones between Lewis and Max can right before the restart. Could surely have signaled all lapped cars to go a earlier like so many other races and not bother with them catching up. We’d just be talking about how unlucky Hamilton got with safety cars.
Would Hamilton have just got caught anyways on the straight if he had covered the inside to T5?
The whole fiasco is being driven by the FAI not following their own rules.
in fairness to him he's handled it better than anyone thought he would under these circumstances, and there is nothing to say he is the one behind this challenge, it looks to be all coming from Toto and Merc not Hamilton, Sky even said Toto went up to his office and refused to come down when Horner went to him.
Nothing ad far as I can see. He behaved well after the race. Now its up to the lawyers.
This kind of legalistic guff is just the zeitgeist at the moment. Trump didn't invent it but he certainly made refusing to lose more common and mainstream. The idea of just being a gracious looser is not in the culture at the moment. I don't like it but I don't really blame anyone. It's just the way things are at the moment.
The system should hold firm. With a bit of luck it will be sorted soon.
In public!
Hamiltons accepted it like an adult at least in public anyway.
Its Mercedes and George Russell who are embarrassing themselves.
Hamilton now favourite in the betting. Something must have happended
F1, Masi and Mercedes all coming out of this terribly. Red Bull played the hand they were dealt, and Hamilton has been gracious post-race.
Whatever the outcome, they need to fix officiating for next year -- too many debates about race direction, stewarding, penalties, and moaning on the team radio.
Nothing to say otherwise.
Must have been gutting for him but he spoke to cameras graciously.
Wonder if this might drive him to retire
I think the FIA and stewards will back Masi and dismiss the complaints from Mercedes, then it’s up to Mercedes to take it further or accept defeat.
I don't know i think Verstappen was handed the win, Hamilton was not going to keep Versatppen behind him with his fresh tyres even with one lap, letting a certain amount of back markers to pass to allow Verstappen along side Hamilton and not the rest doesn't seem right to me somehow, what are the rules here ?,
The Race Director has overriding authority on the use of the safety car. How far that goes is what the suits in Mercedes are arguing:
Bookmakers and markets making a quick buck from the gullible more likely.
Yes people putting a few bob on.
No doubt Hamilton is directing things behind the scenes, he could easily tell Toto that they accept the result but hasn't. Doing themselves no favours.
With who?
Only odds I can find are for next year.
John Delaney just can't help himself can he. 🤣
I've liked George at Williams but don't think he's going to be the same guy at Mercedes. The Mercedes suits will see to that.
Scratch that I was looking at 2022 :(
Didn't Perez hold up Hamilton with Hamilton on fresh tyres and Perez on old tyres?
decision at 6.30pm apparently
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