It seems to me whiting is desperate to get to 75% race distance for lewis here. the straight seems lethal.
At some point or other this season, I'm pretty sure you've wanted to kick out every team or driver! Thank god you're not in charge, never mind Charlie. We wouldn't have a 2017 to look forward too as no one would be racing!
He has been shocking 99% of the season Chris, I have seen nothing of him apart from a decent drive in Australia that backs him being there.
There was zero reason to go out if there's 50mins of heavy rain coming. That entire run just put several drivers having hairy moments no no reason and palmer is out now. That's all.. seems pointless to me if the last corner and straight are lethal. Looks like at this point this races is over. Mercedes 1/2 on half points.
It's his job to make the races last the distance where possible. But throwing two red flags suggests he is doing what he thinks is right and couldn't care less about the 75% rule. Need to get over the FIA are in love with Hamilton bollocks that gets spouted on here too often. If he wanted 75%+, the race would be on now.
Wet races. Let's have no safety cars, no red flags. Wet tyres, monsoon tyres. A test of driver skill and bravery. If you don't like the conditions, retire the car.
FIA too scared of legal action for that..... Don't want to sound insensitive but if you're in a car racing there will be a risk! Sign a waiver - if you're not comfortable don't race. If you race and are injured then its your own fault. Easy as that.
Brundle just hit the nail on the head- this is a serious moment for F1. If we can't cope with weather, we have set a precedent. Pirelli, yet again, have shown they are not up to the task of providing race tyres to Formula One. One of the poorest countries in the world that we travel to are getting robbed of their race here.
So how many safety car laps before they red flag it again? They trying to creep across the 75% marker?
This is now ridiculous, restarts after just about 10mins in. . and it wasn't even bloody raining much. If a down pour comes now they will look more than stupid...
One of the richest sports gets it wrong again shocker.....why is anyone surprised. The sport rewrites the rules every year, but still manages to switch people off in swathes.
F1 haven't helped Pirelli by refusing to give them a proper test bed and running time, but Pirelli can't duck all the blame for the hopeless wet weather tyre options we have.
It seems to me that we will do 10/15 more laps here and a down pour will occur and we will be off. If they let them race anyone could plank it here
