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God, I would love it if Mercedes actually sued. They could genuinely bring this mob down if they wanted.There are rules, if you're clearly being robbed and that's worth millions of dollars and in the case of the driver's championship the exposure and eyeballs, ads, etc. One should have a right to appeal and there is a higher FIA court of sorts isn't it? This is such a shameful and orchestrated act. Liberty wanted drama and a new champion and they got their wish.
Yeah... no.Best f1 season ever.
No, they should have did nothing different. The race should have ended under safety car. There was not enough laps left to clear the wreck, then allow all the lapped cars around safely.The primary issue is that they clearly did something different for the sake of the championship. If that were any old race they'd have just ended under SC or left the lapped cars there, but here they just wanted to clear the track to let the two contenders have a last lap race.
So, should we be doing things differently because of the championship? That is the question.
I say go for it. This entire season should be vacated. Worst officating I've ever seen across an entire season.God, I would love it if Mercedes actually sued. They could genuinely bring this mob down if they wanted.
F1 has done this for decades. Controversy is and always has been intentional.Well, of course F1 has always been filled with controversy, but this is like American Football levels of stupidity.
It's like the FIA made this season for Drive to Survive lol
The problem is, regardless of having a case or not, they can’t strip Verstappen of the championship now, owing to the point that he hasn’t done anything wrong. If a rule has been broken to get this race finished on track, then there isn’t a subsequent rule or case to go along with it that has a suitable outcome. Not without turning it from farcical to a genuine joke by rewriting the WDC after a race control muck up.Yeah with that clear wording, Mercedes absolutely have a case. That didnt happen.
You can't replicate rain, bro... Especially on dessert... Even if the last race was made on either Sandvoort (possibly) or Silverstone (probability)They tried so hard to replicate Brazil 2008 and had to do it like this. What a ****ing joke.
That’s about par for the course after every race regardless of who wins, unless it’s someone not called Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen 🤣
Ehhhh, hard disagree there. Yes, Senna got screwed by Balestre in '89, but ramming his competitor off the track and actively endagering his life was a piss-poor way to go about things. I still think Senna should've been DQ'd for that move.Senna got screwed the previous year by FIA rigging so that was just.
I personally don't think so. Stewarding should be consistent regardless of the race or circumstance. Even if a call isn't popular, if it lines up with the rules given, then it should be satisfactory.So, should we be doing things differently because of the championship? That is the question.
Yeah for sure VER did nothing wrong and he shouldn't lose the title but I'm not sure what the precedent is for stuff like this, when the governing body are the ones at fault.The problem is, regardless of having a case or not, they can’t strip Verstappen of the championship now, owing to the point that he hasn’t done anything wrong. If a rule has been broken to get this race finished on track, then there isn’t a subsequent rule or case to go along with it that has a suitable outcome. Not without turning it from farcical to a genuine joke by rewriting the WDC after a race control muck up.
English language Twitter yeah, I'm guessing it's very different in the Dutch language Twitter
Well, of course F1 has always been filled with controversy, but this is like American Football levels of stupidity.
It's like the FIA made this season for Drive to Survive lol
This is the problem, there’s no precedents and no rulings that could satisfy Mercedes. Even a stack of cash. Mercedes and Lewis will feel they should have the title but that can’t happen.Yeah for sure VER did nothing wrong and he shouldn't lose the title but I'm not sure what the precedent is for stuff like this, when the governing body are the ones at fault.
I dont watch enough sport to know of any similar cases but I guess giving them a stack of cash Is about the only thing Merc could get out of it.
That would have been the more fair thing to do. That way both Max and Hamilton would have been on new tires then could have equally fought for the win. I would have respected that more than this debacle we ended up with.If he wanted to finish the race under green, he should have thrown a red flag
At the end you mean? They couldn't risk the race ending under SC.I get the continued moaning and groaning from both sides. However, no one is putting blame on Mercedes for not pitting Lewis and flipping the script. Even with Max 1 and Lewis 2, if Lewis has equal or fresher softs, he goes on to win, in this exact scenario, no? You'll have a hard time convincing me that's not possible (don't say Max will intentionally run Lewis off).