The handbags have barely started yet!
F1 2021 Season
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The handbags have barely started yet!
The presenters sound like they know this is a farce too but need to sell it as an epic
he won’t be there for the 1st race next season. mercedes will demand his resignation.
Going off what Rosberg said Massi fecked up
Game's gone
Going on 28 years watching now, never seen a moment more tense than that final lap, but can't ignore how fabricated it was.
Safety cars late always have potential to change a race... I was a bit deflated when they said the lapped cars wouldn't be allowed to unlap, but to reverse that decision soon after to clearly get the last lap fight just between the top 2 (as that decision disregards anything else going on), knowing what the situation was (fresh softs vs used hards)... just doesn't sit right. I feel like any tension or emotion I felt (and I was tense at the end) was as fabricated as a superhero movie.
Safety cars late always have potential to change a race... I was a bit deflated when they said the lapped cars wouldn't be allowed to unlap, but to reverse that decision soon after to clearly get the last lap fight just between the top 2 (as that decision disregards anything else going on), knowing what the situation was (fresh softs vs used hards)... just doesn't sit right. I feel like any tension or emotion I felt (and I was tense at the end) was as fabricated as a superhero movie.
Oh I like to play catch up. Read it after it piles up a couple pages.
a good hour or 2 should do it. However, still lurking in case of some nuggets floating around.How it is a great day for F1? This is one of the biggest races in the history of the sport and I can guarantee you that this has severely damaged the legitimacy of F1 as a sport. A great many F1 first timers won’t be coming back if this is their impression. It’s a terrible, terrible advert for F1 and motorsport in general.
Drive to Survive is going to be absolutely box office.
Are you also saying you get zero joy from seeing Liverpool or City suffer a humiliating defeat? Didn't have a chuckle at Pools 7-1 loss last season?
Nico Rosberg is bang on there. Masi can decide what he wants, no matter the rules.
And that's why this isn't a sport, it's sport entertainment. I was entertained by that last lap, very much so. But like wrestling, it's not real
And that's why this isn't a sport, it's sport entertainment. I was entertained by that last lap, very much so. But like wrestling, it's not real
I'm OK with Max winning, both drivers were exceptional this year and both deserve it. They have to keep it a sport rather than something manufactured for TV though and rules are written for everybody to follow.
I hope it doesn't get stupid and taken to CAS by Mercedes, but the FIA definitely need to review the rules and make sure they are fit for purpose.
Well Jos is happy now so we can all agree something went seriously wrong with the world when that abusive sociopath is happy
Still think they should be making more of it. They are now but no much.
Ive seen it in other sports, they tend to not talk about the controversy anymore and just say ‘it is what it is’.
If Rosberg is right, and it’s black and white in the rules that all cars are REQUIRED to pass, then I can see this going for a while in legal battles.
Max as classless in his interviews as Red Bull has been all season and the Max fanboys have been in here today. This was plain and simple a fix. We all saw it. The FIA handed Verstappen the world title. For anyone to be celebrating that like it was anything other than a total shambles and a sham is laughable.
Embarrassing for the sport. Downright embarrassing. Red Bull couldn’t win it fairly. Lewis had done it. So the FIA intervened. Shocking stuff. Verstappen will always be a fake world champ until he wins it fairly. But to win it this way is in keeping with the way he drives, he conducts himself and his team conduct themselves.
Shameful stuff. What a total embarrassment. I was really, really angry at first. Now I’m just laughing at how desperate some people are for Verstappen to win and to claim this as a victory. It wasn’t, it was just a fix.
Hamilton is still the champ. Plain and simple. He won today.
Embarrassing for the sport. Downright embarrassing. Red Bull couldn’t win it fairly. Lewis had done it. So the FIA intervened. Shocking stuff. Verstappen will always be a fake world champ until he wins it fairly. But to win it this way is in keeping with the way he drives, he conducts himself and his team conduct themselves.
Shameful stuff. What a total embarrassment. I was really, really angry at first. Now I’m just laughing at how desperate some people are for Verstappen to win and to claim this as a victory. It wasn’t, it was just a fix.
Hamilton is still the champ. Plain and simple. He won today.
Obviously Lewis was hard done by but my God, that was the most thrilling lap I've ever seen in an F1 race.
Is there any question about legality. Max passed and won, i don't think that passing was out of the order ..
Were there cars between Max and Sainz
Max the unworthy champion. The FIA got their man. All it took was...
-dodgy half points awarded in Spa
-letting Max get away with inadequate punishment for dangerous driving multiple times
-moving cars out the way in the final race at the will of Red Bull.
What a joke.
Now do all the BS Merc got away with this season
Fantastic day for the sport, fully deserved for Verstappen - a great performance out of him all year, a fitting end. Very tactically astute from Red Bull and a very poor decision from Mercedes not to react to their pits. Very enjoyable viewing.
Red bull... we need a miracle
Fia... hold my drink
Fia... hold my drink
Is it in the rules though? The commentators seemed unsure.. that was around lap 54.. they were talking about it.. said it usually happens.. but didnt say it was the rule
Absolutely, more sporting integrity in WWE.
The whole unlapping 5 cars and no others is the smoking gun, it's not a level playing field. It's like a referee laying on a lovely through ball for a last minute winner in a CL final.
Masi just makes it up because they wanted an exciting finish.
Deserving the championship, and deserving the race win are totally different things.Max started the race on pole and spun his wheels out on the softs
I don't see how that is " deserving it".
Through the course of the season, both Lewis and Max have deserved to be number 1.
There is no need to be so biased.
I'll repeat, I absolutely cannot stand Max but I'm not so deluded to say he doesn't deserve this.
Hamilton has dominated the sport for so long that it’s probably good for the sport to see a new champion, Max is an exciting and brilliant driver and had hoped he would become champion one day.
The FIA have a lot of answering for for their decision making over the safety car and positioning of the cars. I don’t know if they changed their mind part way or they just withheld the information, but their decision making has had major consequences for Lewis. It’s a pretty ugly situation they have engineered for themselves here.
The FIA have a lot of answering for for their decision making over the safety car and positioning of the cars. I don’t know if they changed their mind part way or they just withheld the information, but their decision making has had major consequences for Lewis. It’s a pretty ugly situation they have engineered for themselves here.
As a Lewis fan, it’s pretty hard to take. He was absolutely the best driver today and lost a title due to a random incident with the drivers fighting for last place. You could run that race 100 times over and it wouldn’t happen like that, but it always felt like it was never going to end with Lewis cruising home.
I’m sure some will feel like that’s equaled out turn one, but they really aren’t comparable. Losing a place on lap 1 vs losing a race on the last lap. To call it one each for the race is almost embarrassing - I’m hearing Rosberg say it right now.
I’m sure some will feel like that’s equaled out turn one, but they really aren’t comparable. Losing a place on lap 1 vs losing a race on the last lap. To call it one each for the race is almost embarrassing - I’m hearing Rosberg say it right now.
Don't hold your breath. These people's memories end in Brazil three weeks ago.
Abu Dhabi screwjob
The way they on,y let 5 cars un lap themselves and not all as is in the written rules as per Nico Rosberg.
What a fecking season this has been
If rules have been broken by the FIA, then it’s so sad. And unfair on both Lewis and Max. At the end of the day, RB took gambles (they had nothing to lose) and they paid off
Probably why they don't let Mike Dean do one.
It‘s clear they have fecked up but it won’t change the result, guessing there will be a reshuffle before next season starts
they wanted a grandstand showtime moment for tv, it’s the only answer.
might as well have left the car on the track and said crack on
It's all Latifi fault