And the only people watching F1 for the rest of the year will be people from the UK
Hamilton was wronged. It sucked. Move on.
F1 2022 Season
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Hamilton was wronged. It sucked. Move on.
I don't think anybody has actually run their cars yet have they?
Of course likley merc have a good engine but the fuel mix will change next year so remains to see who that suits
Low rake should be the way to go with the new ground effect aero and merc has always tended to go low rake so again that should suit them.
But perhaps somebody has come up with double diffuser type idea that will take a midfield car to the front
Or the fia will just make the rules up as they go along to help max
Doubt even the first test will revel much possibly not even the second as all teams will be trying to discussed their pace and hide innovations
I have heard the same also, also read that RB put a ton of work into the 2021 car just to win and at the detriment of 2022, not sure how true this is.
Part of me want Mercedes to stick it to RB and FIA for the farce that was the last race ( yes I know its bitter but it still leaves a bad taste ) and blow the rest out of the water, but the rest of me wants another close season, with a number of teams in the running.
I just want one season of utter Mercedes dominance just to fix the travesty of last season. Then I'm all for really close racing after that.
Its been less than a month. The Hand of God is still going strong after more than 35years. If one isn't angry, bitter or worse, then the F1 fan isn't really a fan but just the sort of TV viewer as The Masi was intended for.
Is Masi still on the job? He is not going anywhere, isnt he?
I dont know what sort of tricks he's gonna pull out next year if he get away free from this debacle.
I dont know what sort of tricks he's gonna pull out next year if he get away free from this debacle.
If he fluffed his lines in that pressure cooker red flag situation in Abu Dhabi, imagine the pressure and scrutiny he will be under for every race next season?
I would love to see a before and after photo of him from Jan 2021 and Dec 2022.
The FIA is like the FA.
They'll double-down and protect the inept idiots they have on the payroll instead of admitting their mistake.
You mean rules are rules!!
Yep. His comments don't bode well for the future integrity of F1.
Watch for the spectacle but I don't expect genuine competition from this point forward.
Such an odd opinion. As if amount of wins is in any way linked to whether a competition is genuine or not.
So many scandals swept under the rug and only now people are worried about "genuine competition"
So many scandals swept under the rug and only now people are worried about "genuine competition"
This is the first scandal I can remember that has happened right in front of us. Spygate with McLaren was ridiculous, but it wasn’t played out on the last lap of the last race deciding the championship.
Good to see everyone is starting afresh for the new season.I reckon this will continue until the first race.
Rules are rules*
*That can change at any time depending on who masi wants to win
*That can change at any time depending on who masi wants to win
The FIA/teams or the people in this thread? (guessing the latter)
Definitely the latter. Roll on March.
That's part of sport though, with a chance for other teams to go for the title by building cars to compete. It's not Verstappens fault and he deserved the championship but the changing the rules at the end of the race showed F1 up for what the FIA want it to be by forcing drama and "entertainment"
McLaren and Jordan using radio to signal lights out, only to be caught when they changed the timing of the radio signal, F1 has a history of cheating, Massa could of been champion if is wasn’t for crashgate.
Crashgate, we didn’t know it was deliberate until a while later (I think when Nelson jr left the team). We didn’t see it play out, complete with radio chats as we did with Masi/Max/Lewis.
I have no idea about the McLaren/Jordan thing, a cursory google hasn’t produced any results so I will have to bow to your knowledge for that.
Some of these are actually clever, but the lights sniffing is outrageous cheating.
Cheers.
This is all teams trying to bend the rules /cheat.
There aren't many examples of the FIA doing it!
You’re either being purposely obtuse or being remarkably dim (no offence).
this is f1 at its best though isn’t it?
gaining an advantage through pure genius. It wasn’t technically illegal, but it was cheating at the same time. Watching them get caught out was absolutely brilliant.
Never heard about the lights one, that's brilliant
The funny thing is they didn’t actually penalise them, they just aborted the start as the first 5 had jumped, Irvine was 7th imagine if they had given all of them a 10 second stop and go, he could of been world champion that yearThe way they changed the light sequence to catch the teams is great
That's a mental take, but coming from you it's expected.
The right intentions? Being what? Altering the outcome to get the champion you want instead of the champion fair competition was destined to produce? F1, as a sport, has become a laughing stock after that last race. It was a WWE event producing a paper champion. We’d all like to see the other teams be more competitive and have more drama, and the season produced plenty without essentially falsifying the result at the end of it. All that did was make a mockery of what had been one of the best F1 seasons ever. People won’t remember it for the incredible drama and back and forth between two great drivers, they’ll remember it for (a) being a fan of the driver that was clearly robbed (b) being a fan of the driver that was gifted a championship, or (c) being a fan of the sport and having their belief in its integrity ruined by avoidable controversy.
It was a shambles, much like your hot take.
100%
Making a poor decision for the “right reasons” (btw, your interpretation of a right reason, most F1 fans recognise sometimes races finish behind the SC, it’s as much part of the sport as a dull 0-0 draw is and we don’t allow referees to award phantom penalties to spice things up) is another terrible take.
Shambles of a post.
If any of you guys genuinely think what happened was down to Masi and the FIA purposefully choosing Max as the champion you need to refit your tin foil hats.
Whether you think it was purposeful or not doesn't matter.
The decisions made by Masi were against protocol, against the normal rules and did effectively make Max champion. If anyone doesn't see that then they need to refit their glasses.
Very few people have said this. Many do, however, think it was manipulated to make it exciting, which is no less egregious.
Seeing all these posts just makes me hope Lewis and Merc are only in the middle of the pack next season. Would be really funny seeing this thread explode. I don't care who wins as long as it's not another procession that we saw for the last 7 years before the one which just ended.