F1 2022- Round 21 Brazilian GP

Oh yeah look I think he will be rightly criticised, Checo has been a great No. 2 driver and there doesn’t seem to be an obvious reason for it. I hope the team stick the boot in and go all out next week to prioritise Checos race as best they can.

But the hyperbole around his true colours coming out etc is nauseating.

Jesus, he is a double world champ, he helped him to one of those championships, he didn’t need his help this year at all.

Max doesn’t need to show “class”, he wants to get the best result for him. Simple as, that’s what No.1 drivers do, like Vettel, Hamilton, Schumacher, Senna.

Horner told Channel 4 just yesterday Red Bull that they have never had their drivers finish 1-2 in the championship and he really wanted to achieve that. Hamilton has given positions back to Bottas before so its not unheard of from that camp.

I think it was more that RB f*cked Checo over at Spain and the Monaco win was to make up it to him

One for the max simps

And that concludes the mature unbiased race discussion.

See ye in the next race thread.

When it comes to Max and Lewis whenever something happens it’s massively amplified to where they’re portrayed as some sort of pantomime villain, and it’s just tiring. Like he will be rightly criticised for this but people love to jump on anything to go on about how that person is practically evil.

Anyway, Verstappen has said he has spoken with the team about it and he will support Checo in AD. Judging from the interviews there has clearly been something on his mind for a while.

Looks like it will never be answered , why he didn't help Checo today.

It'd remind you of Ricky Bobby :D

"If you're not first you're last!"

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Today was the first time ever that God Save The King has been played on a Formula 1 podium.

Max has plenty of year's left to do it so.

No way hes getting away with that, will be behind closed door consequences for sure.

Schumacher was not in contention for the championship in 99, so that’s not comparable here.

All this faux outrage over absolutely nothing, it’s comical. Verstappen is the top driver in F1 right now, he doesn’t have to move over for anyone if he doesn’t want to, and it sounds like he let this team know that as well.

If Perez wants help, he should start by going faster.

I dont know if you know this but Max isn't in contention for the Championship this year, so it is comparable in that it was utterly pointless

Turns out they played the wrong audio by mistake. They played God Save the Queen.

So glad my predictions didnt all come true this time

Max was miles behind not ahead always makes for a better race 😁

George did Beat Lewis in fairness but if it wasnt for Max trying to fit a car in a closing gap it may have played out differently ah well, fair play to George great race/weekend for him glad he got that first win lewis drove a blinder too.

Ferrari didnt really Ferrari and finished ahead of the bulls.

I bet normal service will resume next week and Max and team verstappen will cruise to victory once again. At least we got a third team winning and 5th driver win/ second first time winner so that was a change from the normal, I wish Brazil was the closer instead of Abu boring Dhabi but sure money talks and all that...

I think Brundle mentioned Monaco too if I heard right. Struggling with the idea though as to why Perez would want to settle to being only third at the grid. If he has title ambitions at the time, he’s locking in LeClerc for pole by crashing and another Ferrari into P2. So he’s going to boast about securing P3 behind (at the time) their constructor rivals? Relied on the strategy both from Ferrari and Red Bull to win it then.

And the serious answer is, it is the exact same anthem, just when sung replace Queen with King and female pronouns for male ones. The tape they play on the podium is the exact same one they've been using for years.

I only pointed it out because Jordan put up the very patriotic angled photo of George in front of the Union Flag, it's the first British success since Lizzies passing and it's mad to think her reign predates the formation of the Formula 1 World Championship. Another random fact the only reason all UK coins in circulation at the moment feature the Queens Head is because she was on the throne when they converted to decimalisation, prior to that coins with Elizabeth, George, Edward et all would all have still been in circulation and would have remained <in my best Michael McIntyre faux Scottish accent > legal tender.

Back to Formula 1, not as consequential as last year but the race director has messed up the safety car restart procedure again. Once Norris's car was cleared Race Control only allowed the two Williams to unlap themselves, Tsnouda had also been lapped but wasn't included in the message that lapped cars could pass the safety car which lead to Yuki having to stay a lap down on everyone.