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!
He won't care - he is World Champion for more than just Today.
Safety car and the strategy around them is part of the sport.
Just watched the race. My god what an end to the season and without question the right decision and right result.
Hamilton’s salt level must be insane right now.
Roll on next year.
My hopes are:
Ferrari and maybe McLaren to challenge RB and Mercedes.
Closer racing in general.
More unpredictability ala Saudi Arabia.
And lastly thank you Kimi. Legend.
There's also the fact that had long been agreed by ALL teams that where possible it was highly desirable for the race to end under green flags.
Sounds like Merc agreed to this and now that it's gone against them the don't like it.
Have rarely bothered with F1 for a long time (usually only watch on a Sunday depending what else is on) .......but that ending would go down as the best bit of live tv I can remember for a very long time, sport or otherwise
Lewis and his father were both gracious in defeat - It was a clear cut win for everyone apart from Toto Wolff.
Incredible race and incredible execution from Max and team RB.
Conspiracy theory
Have to laugh at that.
Not enough Picard facepalms in the world for this....
Hamilton really bottled that, only had to hold him off for 1 lap in a much faster car but left the door open for Max, rookie mistake.
Its funny but due to the sheer number of idiots in the world some people will believe it.
I haven't watched f1 in years until this season and I know this is an utterly nonsense argument.
Masi granted absolute power, essentially.
And to be fair, there isn't much else they could do.
The race was won on the track. It was a 58 lap race, not 57. Safety cars happen.
This is absolute bollocks and you know this. As soon as the lapped cars were allowed to overtake Max was always going to get him.
How do you think Max was able to brake so late in the first place?
Max had all of the advantages of being on brand new two compounds softer tyres compared to the 30+ set Hamilton was on. The grip Max would have had compared to Hamilton would be next level.
The result is right based on the race. Max got over the line first and won. For alot of young viewers (my son included) saw that as Max's win, as he crossed the line ahead of Lewis.
Whether it's the right result based on how it was won, is different. But that's neither Max's or Red Bulls fault.
Whether it's the right result based on lots of incidents this season where there should've been penalties and vice versa, is the bigger question. If stuff was penalised properly throughout the season, maybe none of this would've happened.
But, to go back to my first point, Max won the race and that's what people see.
Maybe the result of todays race might seem hollow. But I doubt it'll bother Max too much if you look at the season as a whole. Verstappen was cursed on a few occasions this year, he'll take this.
As I said earlier that always been the case. I am sure if you looked in the past Charlie made some calls that really annoyed people/went against a rule in order to keep a race going or similar. You need the human element in sports as sometimes rules are so black/white that it leaves no wiggle room. IE the handball rule in football, if you went by the rules exactly as they said there would be 30 peno's a weekend in the premiership.
That's the summary really. Masi shouldn't have done it but ultimately can do what he likes.
They really need to change the rules as there is a potential for much bigger mistakes in the future
Perez did more than Max in that regard
If ever a post shows a poster hasn't a clue about motor sport, it's this one.
have to say i dont think it was hollow at all...
You forgot the part of max passing Lewis out in the final lap. If Lewis put up as good a fight as Perez did earlier in the race he might be champion now.
If people want the rules to be applied with ruthless application of the law expect every single run off to be a penalty, ever single contact a penalty. Races would be a crap show.
Have you ever tried braking on really worn tyres compared to a new set with much more grip?
Some people in this thread really need to get a grip (pun very much intentional). Hamilton lost and they're still trying to make him out to be a worse driver than he actually is.
Max wins and still some talk about Hamilton. Talk about living in people's heads rent free.
That sounds like a conspiracy theory.
For me this race (end) was right up there in terms of excitement with Spa 98 when Jordan took a one-two. The last lap was absolutely edge of your seat stuff.
And Lewis benefitted from poor FIA intervention on lap 1. I hope that decision gets scrutinised in time, even the commentators could phathom it.
Was Masi not granting the wish of all teams to finish the race under green flags though?
Mercedes have appealed the verdict to the FIA.
Merc launching another appeal
