Have to say I have hardly watched it since the turn of the century, but I’ve watched the last couple and will tune in for the final race.
Good to see Sky sharing the coverage with Channel 4 again as they did with the Cricket.
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Wow what drama. I’m genuinely a bit confused about what happened there. Seems like they made one decision and then flipped to the other at the very last moment. Incredible way to finish a season.
Congratulations to Max.
FIA fucked Mercedes there changing their mind. Cunts.
Very lucky today Redbull. Everything fell in their lap.
Gutted.
That’s a fucking disgrace.
No way this is over.
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That was a mess. Don’t really get it, but also not sure if the confusion we had was because of the terrible quality of the US coverage
We were being told there were 2 ways to resolve the safety car situation (resolve the lapped drivers which would take longer than there laps left, or just get the safety car off and leave 4 lapps cars between them with 1-2 laps to go).and neither gave Verstappen much of a chance. Then all of a sudden we were in a third scenario that seemed to make Lewis screwed and then it was all over.
That’s what we were told too.
Then right at the last minute it was a one lap race with Verstappen right behind Lewis on fresh set of softs.
It’s not, but in the end the FIA will not change their mind.
They only unlapped the cars between Lewis and Max. Nit the entire grid. Its not fair. But Lewis will have to suck it up. They won’t hand the crown to Lewis now.
Ooohhh…not all the lapped cars unlapped themselves. Rules not followed.
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Seems from what Ted just said they didn’t follow the rules or the correct process.
I don’t know what kind of legal challenges they could make here but there’s no way the FIA change this result right?
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Looks like a decision made to make the best tv spectacle regardless of the rules.
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Away from all the controversy today I think that’s been one of the best F1 seasons for absolutely ages. Think the sport needed it really.
Lewis won that race. He was 11 seconds ahead on the track. Racing, he won it.
Absolutely disgusting way to just give it to Verstappen and that’s by no means the only time this season.
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This is the equivalent of boxing where one guy has won every round on the cards and then forced to fight the last round with his hands tied behind his back and his shoe laces tied together.
I think Michael Masi will be incredibly lucky to keep his job next year.
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He’s been terrible all year. Really makes you miss the great Charlie Whiting.
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Will be interesting to see the other drivers takes on this.
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My god, they played the audio between Massi and Wolff and its awful. Such condescension in explaining a very controversial decision.
“it’s called racing, and we went to motor racing.”
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Russell is a bit biased, tbf!
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Here are the supposed rules
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