Grand Prix thread ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX 2021

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Who will win - simple :-) ?

  • Lewis Hamilton

    Votes: 10 71.4%

  • Max Verstappen

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Valtteri Bottas

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Sergio Perez

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Lando Norris

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Esteban Ocon

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Pierre Gasly

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Fernando Alonso

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Kimi Raikkonen

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Any Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    14
  • Poll closed .
eddie_squidd said:
I think they both had a good claim on deserving it. Which is why a fair decider would have been better.
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It was fair and if it wasn't the last race nobody would've complained. It's just magnified the situation because it was seen as decisive, but all the races every one counts.
 
I want Mackem Cock said:
It was fair and if it wasn't the last race nobody would've complained. It's just magnified the situation because it was seen as decisive, but all the races every one counts.
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It was unfair because the race director did not follow the rules. Simple.

A good analogy is Maradona's hand of god goal. Maradona was amazing, but that goal was against the rules. Max is great, let's see him win it on merit. In today's race, he was beaten by a faster package and had no real answer all race.
 
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eddie_squidd said:
It was unfair because the race director did not follow the rules. Simple.

A good analogy is Maradona's hand of god goal. Maradona was amazing, but that goal was against the rules. Max is great, let's see him win it on merit. In today's race, he was beaten by a faster package and had no real answer all race.
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Sterling dived vs Denmark this country was fine with it.

There's been several rules Hamiltons broken over the season and perhaps got off lightly with.

Hamilton lost the race unfortunately.
 
SgtBhaji said:
He did lose it... But in some of the most ridiculous circumstances I have seen... And I've seen a few at this point.
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Well that's life its nice to see a new champion. Hopefully he posts Hamilton a second place hat for Christmas signed by Rosberg.
 
Mr.B said:
As others have said, I think Mercedes' action is unlikely to succeed, but is good for the long term health of F1.

Leap forward a couple of years - do we want to look back on this season and say
  • "that was the season where Masi intervened and blatantly engineered a new WDC"; or
  • "that was Masi-gate, where the intervention was so outrageous that multiple people were fired, the WDC wasn't confirmed until 3 months later, and new rules were written to ensure it could never happen again"
One of the worst things about this is that Masi has created a no-win situation for pretty much everyone. Every outcome is harsh on someone, whether it's
  • Max going down in the history books as having his first world title given to him by the Race Director; or
  • Lewis going down in the history books as having his record-breaking 8th title given to him in a court room.
Masi has created a situation where every outcome looks disreputable and corrupt, and for that he must go.

But he didn't do it to please himself. He did it because Liberty bought a sport and wanted to turn it into 'a show'.

That's why I support Mercedes action. Nothing can turn this disgrace into a good outcome. But, for the future, there has to be such a **** storm that F1 can't wriggle out of having a proper clear-out in personnel and in philosophy.
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The yanks destroy every sport they take complete control over

They were the driving force behind the football super league and only in America can you have a World Series where only American teams can compete
 
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Anyone got the rule wording around safety cars and unlapping of lapped cars?

If it’s the rules then fine- if we’ve just made it up for entertainment then that’s wrong, because as much as well all want great racing, we want genuine moments not engineered ones with inconsistent rule application.
 
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TopClass said:
Anyone got the rule wording around safety cars and unlapping of lapped cars?

If it’s the rules then fine- if we’ve just made it up for entertainment then that’s wrong, because as much as well all want great racing, we want genuine moments not engineered ones with inconsistent rule application.
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Think somebody posted them first further bsck
 
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