Formula 1 Round 22 Abu Dhabi GP

Nobody is crying about Max not getting any luck, they are rebuting your waffle. I never mentioned Monza. Nobody handed anybody anything, to suggest that means there's someone pulling strings and blatantly giving someone advantages. Is that what your saying?

You are doing a Toto at the moment. Maybe take a break from the internet if it's winding you up this much.

Lewis announces the result was manipulated over the radio and didn't show up to the press conference.

Totto just walked out of the garage, said no words of support to Lewis or any of the team. Went straight into launching appeals and chatting with barristers.

Like someone mentioned before, he knows what to do when the cameras are rolling.

Masi had the last laugh for the "F*** them all" comment.

Is that the race where Russel was handed P2 ahead of Hamilton, just because??

The 1st lap shambles is being forgotten here.

Can't get my head around how that was allowed to go without penalty for Hamilton.

Max made the corner, stayed on track, didn't touch Hamilton. Hamilton drives straight on and comes out far far ahead. No penalty.

If we want to talk about rules, could have been a completely different race if first corner was handled fairly.

The stewards imo did their best to hand championship to Hamilton.

The safety car caused an unforeseen situatîon and Mercedes strategy meant they couldn't cope with safety car.

I think team representations to race control during race should be from 1 individual only and in writing only.

This radio contact with a whinging Wolff or Horner telling masi what to do is just terrible.

Masi not the man for the job but have abit more faith in him after basically telling Christian Wolff to F off

That was one of JM balestre more democratic moments.

Max does on race wins but no doubt would have got a penalty if he had managed to exit that corner ahead of Hamilton.

...which is it makes sense for Hamilton avoid him like the plague...

It's a habit that could be exploited with a more competitive and aggressive team mate, with nothing to lose and everything to prove.

I was referring to the drivers recent habit of going off track...

Mick did a couple, kinda messed them up though 😂

The Red Bull fellah Wheatley is in Masi's ear numerous times every race and we even heard Horner doing so yesterday, which is unprecedented for him I believe. Horner also made a snide remark referencing Charlie Whiting which was intended to undermine Masi. Wolff's comments on the radio were mild enough and certainly could not be considered abusive or intimidatory. If Lewis had won the title in similar circumstances yesterday we know Red Bull would be hiring lawyers and lodging appeals right now.

Look, I get that people will always be partisan, it’s only human nature. I’ve been torn on Max and Lewis, I’ve been such a huge fan of Max for years but how can one not appreciate Lewis, he is one of the all time greats, that is just a fact.

I think we can all agree that the rules need a bit more clarity and my personal opinion, I believe, deciding a world championship with that type of decision is not good enough for a season like that, I’ve been watching F1 for over 30 years, this one just doesn’t sit right, Lewis will be fine, he has done more than enough to show his greatness, the lack of conviction from F1 on these issues puts a taint on Maxs first championship

The same Toto who

demanded no safety car when Gio went off because that would bunch the field up and give an advantage to Max

who wanted the race distance shortened to suit his guy

who went to the stewards in Russia last year because his guy can't be bothered reading the race directors notes and got penalised for having practice starts outside of the designated space on safety grounds but then accused the FIA of trying to stop him

Who emails the RD at silverstone to justify Max being put in the wall by Hamilton

I wonder if the vitriol would be as strong if the 2 contenders were more likeable. Say what you will about both, but neither come off as particularly likeable individuals. That's possibly why they're the top 2 drivers (compare seb now who seems a right sounder to seb when he was winning), but it does make it harder for the Lewis fanboys to recongise Max's achievements and for Max fanboys to acknowledge that Lewis was hard done by at the end.

Like if this was Danny Ric versus Carlos Sainz would people be fighting over this as hard?