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Masi is out of his depth, and the reality is Lewis had this in the bag until Masi changed the rules at the end of the race. I've watched every season since 1988 without fail, I'm thoroughly disgusted I'll be honest. The whole bullshit is, they stated they wanted it to be settled on track but, they knew Lewis was a sitting duck when they decided to have a last racing lap, so effectively they decided the title. It's a sham and Lewis won an eighth title today fair and square, I can't even talk right now due to how this has gone.
Fucking joke
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
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Horner has no class whatsoever.
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An absolute shocker - and yes, I was most shocked by Christian Horner being able to have dialogue with Masi, be told the reasoning behind a decision only to have the said decision reversed thirty seconds later in Horner’s favour.
I honestly believed their must have been a pre-agreed £5m code word in there somewhere…
He's made plenty of pro Merc decisions as well - even earlier this race when Hamilton left the door open and Max legitimately took the lead within the white lines.
As I said earlier, he needs to go no matter what side of the fence you're on.
Everyone seems to put him behind Leclerc, Max, Norris, Russel etc in talk about the new young guys in F1 but he ended up "best of the rest" in the championship, ahead of his multi-race-winning and unquestionably fast teammate. I've always really liked the guy and I'm glad he's finally getting results that show his class properly.
I was going to put "only guy in a new team to beat his teammate" but Alonso and Vettel both managed that as well (at least he's in good company!). Either way, hella good season despite barely being shown on TV for most of it. I really hope next year's Ferrari is quick as both those guys need to be at the front.
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Merc now have 96 hours to decide whether to actually file the next level of appeal. If they have any sense I would hope they will drop it for the good of the sport (and their own PR), but make a strong statement about wanting the regs clarified so this kind of confusion doesn't happen again.
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Article 15.3 clearly states that "the race director shall have overriding authority" in the control of practice and the race, starting procedure, et cetera, and the use of the safety car.
Plus, as stated in the second protest, "It had long been agreed by all the teams that where possible it was highly desirable for the race to end in a green condition (i.e. not under a safety car)."
I'm amazed by Carlos this season. He has adapted really well to a new team, car and engine. On par with Leclerc in the second half of the season, and in the last couple of races, even ahead. Who could have thought that? Ferrari has got a stunning driver pairing. Let's hope next year's Ferrari is a great racing car!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Formula_One_controversies
Personally I’m looking forward to next year and have got back into it this season after losing interest a bit.
I’m intrigued as to what the big changes will bring.
They will definitely need a stronger race director for that.
Anybody disillusioned with the sport there are plenty of other formulas / disciplines where the racing is more wheel to wheel and less based on decisions from the governing body. Loads of local race meets etc. much like people tire of premier league sometimes and get into grass roots football - motorsport has it’s equivalent.
Every other controversy on that wiki page is a team or driver doing something, or a commercial dispute between teams and FIA. The biggest issue here is that it's an FIA fuckup, not any of the teams - that's why it feels so unfair because the result feels contrived by the powers that be.
I just don’t get the I’m not watching F1 again comments. Especially from people who don’t watch it anyway. Every sport has their controversies.
Every governing body ends up in the spotlight at some point. Get it sorted and move on.
I remember being disillusioned in 1994, the FIA let Schumacher get away with robbing Damon Hill, took me a long time to get over that. Perhaps I’m a bit more blasé because I’m not a fan of any particular driver, although based on being the better sportsman I did want Hamilton to win.
Michael Masi and the FIA picked the champion, whatever else happened is fair game, you win some, you lose some but the FIA decided who won yesterday and that's not on.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
The stewards really need to be looked at and Michael Masi should resign. We can't have this again it's ruining the sport, Liberty wins as the drama makes money and increases viewing. However the comments about wrestling are pretty much on the money. I can't believe how livid I am, shocking.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
I think it was more incompetence, inconsistency and being swayed at the end to have a 1 lap racing conclusion, rather than let the race and under SC, which it should have done.
P.s. Max forced Lewis wide and left him nowhere to go, every other race this season bar 1, Lewis has backed out and done the correct thing. This race he didn't and he gave the advantage back over the lap, he was alongside and where was Lewis meant to go? You can't force people off the track and Max finally got another one to go against him, it's probably still ahead over the season on Max getting a favourable decision.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
the 2021 WDC has been engineered to give Max and Red Bull the best possible opportunity to win by LW and the FIA, even with all that assistance they still didn't manage the constructors. I should have been in Abu Dhabi for the race - I am 100% relieved I didn't bother.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.