surely you must have heard the analogy with a football match man city winning 3-0 with a minute to go and the ref says lets stop the match and have a penalty shoot out to decide the game and man city you can play in bare feet. the refs decision is final
Hmm, so Hamilton and now Wolff can't have been watching F1 for very long. Lewis Hamilton 'asked Toto Wolff to withdraw protests' before FIA chose Max Verstappen https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-...-Mercedes-Max-Verstappen-Formula-One-protests
and this is exactly why im becoming to hate F1. verstappens "overtakes" invariable involve him bullying his way through a corner and yet the pundits and a lot of fans think this is ok. i used to like it when the most aggressive driver was ricciardo who made safe lunges. very little if any contact and respect to the other driver. once he knows hes gonna make the corner verstappen turns his wheel just enough to deny the other driver any room. he has zero respect. a few o0f the drivers have commented on this. but its entertainment and so its now encouraged. i got fed up with schumachers driving and that put me off for a while.
they expected the rules to be followed. they were told lapped cars were not to pass. no need to pit. normally cars are not only allowed to pass but also unlap themselves and catch up to the back of the field which would have taken 2 or 3 laps. when lapped cars were told they could pass the safety car should have stayed on track for another lap. it wasnt. im wasting my time arguing with you if you dont know the facts.
Except they applied all of the rules correctly, not just the one that suits your argument. I’ll leave you to it now.
Also another side to that was had Verstappen taken both cars out he would have been world champion. Red Bull had zero to lose last throw of the dice so to speak. As Horner said we need something from the racing gods to win this. That's exactly what he got a gift from the FIA.
the fia had to reiterate the rules pre race and even mention that if any team with allegiances to either team affected the outcome then points would be deducted from the main team (verstappen) quite ironic that it was a mercedes power unit car that triggered the safety car.
and that is the whole futting point of why people are so upset. ive been dying for 5 years for someone to stop the mercedes/hamilton bore fest in F1 but not like this.
right thats it for me on this thread maybe see a few of you next year on this or similar f1 thread no doubt watching russel become wdc. unless the new engines mean another manufacturer wins everything? ferrari?
Except they didn’t apply the all of the rules correctly as they only allowed the cars between Verstappen and Hamilton to unlap not the ones further back which would have taken more time. They decided to bend the rules to try and make a race of it by wiping out Hamilton’s large lead at the time. As I’ve said before I’m not a fan but do feel this was a farce.
