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!
People want Russell to fail for giving an opinion ffs.
Same people will say 'oh look what the actual racing drivers think' when making a point to suit their narrative, but when a racing driver gives his opinion on something they don't like then he's a bastard and deserves to fail.
It's toxic as f*ck. Imagine wanting a driver to fail so badly for having a different opinion to someone who is sitting on their couch.
Good idea.
I might get one of each made up for myself and declare myself World Champion. Because I think I'm a great fella altogether.
In fact I'll get 10 of each made up and call myself the G.O.A.T.
Hamilton has been here before. (This article is from 2007, not tonight)
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/2819108/hamilton-appeal-is-cruel
Conspiracy theories aside, what is there to stop a team engineering a nudge into the barrier to help another team ?
Fair points but its was great driving by Perez and I think it fustrated Lewis as he accused Perez of dangerous driving.
Oh I am taking nothing away from Perez. He still had to make the move and at the time I said it was phenomenal driving, and I stand by it.
crashgate 2008 pretty much put an end to that sort of shenanigans
It’s getting pathetic from Mercedes. At some stage you just need to accept the stewards results. Sets a terrible precedent that will have teams lodge all sorts of complaints in future.
My take on it is that Hamilton was extremely unlucky at the end. With a late safety car and a desire to finish the race under a green flag, he was almost in an impossible position. Pit and give up track position or stay out on very old tyres.
But, luck is a part of racing. In the end, Max is a worthy champion and Mercedes having the constructors seems about right. The more they protest the drivers championship the worse they look.
Someone in the boardroom in Stuttgart needs to ring Toto tonight and tell him to drop it. Send out a few advertisements congratulating Verstappen, Red Bull and Honda and see ye in 2022.
They're in a fair amount of shlt regarding forged emissions tests in Germany, so this makes this look even worse.
They have 8 constructers championships in a row, nobody else has done more than 5 in a row. Take it and be happy.
Sky will be furious that Toto won't talk to the media tonight.
Probably worth having a google of crashgate...
Yeah it was anything but a foregone conclusion - Perez put up that fight while on much older tyres than Lewis and the Mercedes was significantly faster than the Red Bull (thanks mainly to a fresher engine which people don't mention the way they mention fresher tyres). Mercedes could have pit if they wanted and assuming Max stayed out they'd be in the position to attack, but they thought track position was superior to new tyres.
The Mercedes proposal to just ignore the last lap and hand it to Hamilton is actually comical but also very dangerous. They think it's ok to restrospectively shorten a race so that their guy wins. That's indicative of a massive sense of entitlement which probably stems from everything going their way since the start of the hybrid era. Toto and the lawyers at Mercedes can't quite believe this one didn't go their way and so they're massive sense of entitlement and egotism can't accept it.
I'm not a fan of the way the season ended.
Max was handed the win by the race director deciding on a whim to do something that has never been done before (to my knowledge). And probably will never be done again. Clearing back markers from in front of one guy only.
No matter who I support, that's not a good thing.
Actually in all the shouting about Hamilton, Versappen, Mercedes etc. everyone is forgetting about the real hero today Nicholas Latifi whos driving gave us one of the most exciting races in years.
Legend of a driver
In fairness I'd love to hear what he says. It would be box office television watching him trying to keep calm and composed and eventually going off on a rant before smashing the microphone off the chair.
Max must be a shoo in for Overseas bbc sports personality of 2021
Maybe it’s the boardroom directing Toto!
Daily Mail saying FIA have now rejected Mercedes’ appeal.
EDIT: it seems they’re confused and are reporting on the “stewards” rejecting both protests and not the appeal to the FIA being dismissed
Reminds me of Trump's "Stop the count!"
I think he will live to regret that shouting "Michael noooooo" - it will be the soundtrack of this Championship - which is a shame.
Sky have given himself and Horner soapboxes all season which has in my opinion fuelled this kind of carry on.
Mercedes will make another few dozen I'm sure.
Daily Fail late to the party. That broke an hour ago.
2 things on this.
1 They can't remove backmarkers in front of Lewis, so would only apply to Max.
2 That's normal rules, that backmarkers are moved out of the way. So whether it's 2, 5 or 18 it's still the same thing. Max would still have nobody in front of him.
No the Stewards rejected the appeal an hour ago, the next step is the FIA.
It broke an hour ago that the stewards rejected the protest and not the fia. That outcome was then appealed to the FIA….
But it appears the daily mail have just confused themselves anyway and are saying the FIA have dismissed the matter when they should be saying the stewards (it’s gone to the FIA now)
But then why not get the two cars between Sainz and Verstappen out of the way as well?
Yeah Toto is channeling his inner Trump on this. It's very amusing.
This was my first time watching an F1 race in years. I have to say that the end of the race goes down as one of the most exciting sports events I've witnessed. I was on the edge of my seat, clapping like a maniac as Verstappen pulled it off.
Ultimately events such as today will bring F1 into the minds of an even wider audience, which won't be a bad thing for the sport.
On a sporting level, from my untutored eye it seems that Hamilton could have been penalised for his start, and the race director may have sought to manufacture a one lap race by his decision at the end. In fairness he was under intense pressure from both sides throughout the race, and probably didn't want a safety car conclusion to the season.
Whatever about the intricacies of how we got there, that last lap consumed me like few other sporting events over the past decade.
F1 may be the ultimate winners from today...
After beating Hamilton? The British media wouldn't want that! You'd think Rachel Blackmore would win that
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