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You'll have to wait until next Sunday at Yas Marina Mayhem. Tickets cover the whole seat... but you'll only need the edge!
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Surely you mean YastleMania. Or when a certain driver is top of the card - RussellMania

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DRS has a role to play in this. Verstappen gave Hamilton a clunky but fair chance to take the position back. Neither driver wanted to give up a DRS advantage. Criticism of DRS has waned over the past few years (gimmicky overtake button) but I think there have been more and more "give the place back but only when you can get immediate DRS" incidents lately. Giving positions back strategically. It certainly factors into both drivers' actions.
 
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Also Aston Martin are the first team with their constructors' standing secured with 7th.
 
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Surely you mean YastleMania. Or when a certain driver is top of the card - RussellMania

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DRS has a role to play in this. Verstappen gave Hamilton a clunky but fair chance to take the position back. Neither driver wanted to give up a DRS advantage. Criticism of DRS has waned over the past few years (gimmicky overtake button) but I think there have been more and more "give the place back but only when you can get immediate DRS" incidents lately. It certainly factors into both drivers' actions.
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Also doesn't help that there are just more DRS sectors nowadays. The entire second half of the track was just DRS sectors, so there's a good chance you can give a position back just before a detection line. And why wouldn't you, honestly?

I hope the new cars will render DRS obsolete, and we'll see the end of it soon, but I doubt it.


Edit: No further action on the Perez incident
 
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Maybe the worst race I've ever watched. Modern NASCAR levels of stupid mixed with a European penchant for nonsensical bureaucracy. Then you add on an unbearable amount of grown men whining and tattle tailing. Nearly unwatchable.

Are there rules or not? Why are they sometimes a negotiation? Why would you restart from a grid when you red flagged after laps under a safety car that removed all the true gaps legally anyway? When is a formation lap a formation lap? These are just a few of the questions about a sport that has existed for what... 70+ years now?
 
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"Verstappen leaves the track. Cool and combative. "It is what it is. Fans can no longer follow this. In Brazil it was allowed, here we both get off the track and I get a penalty. One week on the left, the other on the right.”
 
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Maybe the worst race I've ever watched. Modern NASCAR levels of stupid mixed with a European penchant for nonsensical bureaucracy. Then you add on an unbearable amount of grown men whining and tattle tailing. Nearly unwatchable.

Are there rules or not? Why are they sometimes a negotiation? Why would you restart from a grid when you red flagged after laps under a safety car that removed all the true gaps legally anyway? When is a formation lap a formation lap? These are just a few of the questions about a sport that has existed for what... 70+ years now?
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Answer to all the questions:
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Remember when the pinnacle of motorsport was about, you know, racing?
I remember.

Still, at least the FIA got what they wanted. The way this has been going, there's enough drama to fill a whole TV series. I mean, imagine if F1 made one for this, right?
...Oh, hang on a minute.

I'll watch Abu Dhabi though, obviously. Partly because it's a title decider and partly out of hope, rather than expectation, that F1 might be able to salvage any integrity from this season.
 
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Max - "I'm just trying to race and this sport these days is more about penalties than about racing.
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Marko saw no need for the Red Bull driver to make any changes heading to Abu Dhabi.

“I don't think there is any reason why he should cool down,” Marko said.

“It's the match between Mercedes and Red Bull, and the match between Max and [Lewis].

“And just remember what happened in Silverstone, what's happened in Budapest. Don't forget that.”
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Does Max really think it's OK to force drivers off the track all the time? Oh, I did it before (Imola), I did it before (Silverstone), I did it before (Brazil), all without punishment, so it must be OK to force drivers off the track. Let's not forget, he rejoined the track dangerously (first restart) and actually hit the side of Lewis' car at T1 (allegedly after locking his rear tyres, which means he lost control of the car, another punishable offence) which forced him off the track.

Whinger Spice needs to look objectively at everything he's said, every defence he has made, and ask himself whether he would consider them just if about someone else.

Edit: quotes from Max and Helmut Marko
 
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Hamilton's behaviour is so confusing to me. There was plenty of space on the left to either pass Verstappen, or to get out of his slipstream to slow down, if he wasn't sure what was going on. Staying right behind Verstappen, while he kept slowing down, the whole time just doesn't make sense to me.
 
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Actual footage of Formula One Management negotiating the contract for this race:

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I'll watch Abu Dhabi though, obviously. Partly because it's a title decider and partly out of hope, rather than expectation, that F1 might be able to salvage any integrity from this season.
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I'm not really holding my breath on that one, but if nothing else the changes they made to the track might prove sort of interesting. And at least those are actually completed, unlike this 0.6 alpha version of a track we just saw.
 
Ooooh some race that only just watched it so lush having 32x ffwd on the red flags. Incredible entertainment what a season like watching a movie such a rollercoaster. Spent so many laps watching with a whince, genuinely feel Max is gonna cause an injury, not the best race craft today. Horner has been superb again living in his Red Bull alternate universe. Really enjoyed the Valteri drag race to third.
 
Fire all the stewards and clean house for next season. F1 is a joke with them at the helm. Any of us on here could do a superior job. Zero consistency all season. When you have two drivers tied with one race to go and you have fans who aren't even excited over it because your officating was total dog**** it's time to lose your job.
 
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They noted the part where Horner said "strategically". Figured that wouldn't help Red Bull's case.

Max still keeps P2, though, so, not the worst thing for them.
 
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