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Who will win the Driver's Championship?

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Crofty says that Merc have lodged two protests regarding the race result, this is not confirmed yet.
 
Demon Drone
Agreed. One of the worst seasons I've ever seen. If this is the sport moving forward I'm done.
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phillgt2002
So, with this season and the manufacturing of the results, I’m keeping distance from anything involved with Libery Media.

The FIA is hard to dodge in terms of racing, but it’s safe to say I won’t be watching live F1 much until things clearly change.

I also planned to go to the Japanese GP in 2022, but I’d rather take my time and enjoy other forms of racing.
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Mercedes has lodged a protest, because obviously they have.

Can you imagine the whining, red-faced crying Horner would be doing into every camera available right now if it was the other way about, banging on about how the unfair evil stewards had robbed a young man's dreams from him?
 
Kimi with Driver of the Day and Seb with the most overtakes of the season, I'm pretty happy with that. It was a hell of a race.
 
Yeah no way the results change no matter the protests. They will not go back and say the race should have ended under SC and those positions should hold.
 
Blitz24
So, not a Braves fan anymore either?
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I’ve stopped watching a lot of American sports in general due to the constant hype, controversies, cheating, as well as rabid fanbases.

I mentioned this a few threads ago, but Liberty Media, quote, said that they want F1 to be like the American Football of racing.

It looks like they got what they wished.
 
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Famine
Mercedes has lodged a protest, because obviously they have.

Can you imagine the whining, red-faced crying Horner would be doing into every camera available right now if it was the other way about, banging on about how the unfair evil stewards had robbed a young man's dreams from him?
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Interesting take this. Toto does something, but Horner is such a bad person, imagine him doing that exact same thing!
 
Two protests:

Protest by Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team against the classification established
at the end of the Competition, alleged breach of Article 48.12 of the 2021 FIA
Formula One Sporting Regulations

Protest by Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team against Car 33, alleged breach of
Article 48.8 of the 2021 FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations

I doubt anything will happen.
 
ROAD_DOGG33J
Two protests:

Protest by Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team against the classification established
at the end of the Competition, alleged breach of Article 48.12 of the 2021 FIA
Formula One Sporting Regulations

Protest by Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team against Car 33, alleged breach of
Article 48.8 of the 2021 FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations

I doubt anything will happen.
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48.12 will be thrown out because "Masi made a decision on his discretion with the aim of getting the race restarted in time"

48.8 will be thrown out because they'll say Lewis drove too slowly
 
ROAD_DOGG33J
Two protests:

Protest by Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team against the classification established
at the end of the Competition, alleged breach of Article 48.12 of the 2021 FIA
Formula One Sporting Regulations

Protest by Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team against Car 33, alleged breach of
Article 48.8 of the 2021 FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations

I doubt anything will happen.
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For the latter one.... guess what might happen? F1 might put into place a penalty on anyone who deliberately stacks up the field as a SC is ending.
 
Famine
Yeah... no.

We've seen technical and sporting regulations made up on the spot, dirty driving punished with a lack of consistency, the expansion of the calendar into yet more brutal regimes and safety procedure bypassed to get there, and a total validation of on- and off-track unsportsmanlike actions. And then there was the Belgian Grand Prix which was among the ****test things ever to happen in F1, ranking alongside the US Grand Prix in 2005 and... quite frankly the "race" we have just witnessed, though that only descended into farce late on after a reasonably tedious event.

To much of the F1-watching world, this entire season has looked like a concerted effort from the FIA to engineer a result. I can't disagree that it looks really bad.


Though thankfully we've had no absolute plane crashes, despite best efforts.
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Since 2016 it has been a pure borefest.
Sport is entertainment and for the first time in a long time it has kept me entertained.

The suzuka race where prost won the title after dodgy FIA decision is classed as a classic. For the better or for the worse these seasons are the best and the ones that are remembered the most.
 
Wanted Max to win, as I thought he deserved it more. However, I have mixed feelings about this win. Yes, my favorite won, but was this fair? It felt... off.

So I go looking for the F1 regulations and find Article 48.12, which says that, when lapped cars are to overtake, any cars that have been lapped by the leader will be required to pass the cars on the lead lap and the safety car. But then it says this:

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My head hurts trying to read this run-on sentence. And I still don't quite get what is said here. Can anyone here read "Lawyer"?
 
PaMu1337
Interesting take this. Toto does something, but Horner is such a bad person, imagine him doing that exact same thing!
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Toto Wolff and Christian Horner appear to go about the business of complaining about decisions in entirely different ways, so I'm not entirely sure how "that exact same thing" is being conjured up here.

Horner goes on camera ranting about how his driver has been taken out, and how celebrating while he's in hospital is unsportsmanlike, and this, and that, and the other. He whines in interviews about how the stewards are unfair (while his driver gets to run cars off the road with impugnity, only punished by any contact resulting) and how Red Bull is a tiny team (founded off the base of Ford's factory entry, and with the backing of a soft drinks company worth billions) compared to big mean Mercedes.

I don't recall any Wolff interviews this season even close to the same level. Though actually I don't recall any at all, because his voice bores me to sleep.

Nonetheless, the point remains. If this was the exact opposite way round, do you believe that Red Bull would not be lodging a protest (and bitching about it on camera)? I don't.
 
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A key question is why the lapped cars were not allowed to overtake the SC in the first place, as that would have left Max right up against Hamilton for the restart, should there have been one.

RB's decision to pit Verstappen under the Safety Car was a masterstroke - Merc/Hamilton unable to respond, and basically at the mercy of a strange decision (to not allow the lapped cars to unlap themselves) to keep some cars between Lewis and Max.

I wonder if Masi's decision to allow those cars (and only those cars) to unlap themselves was a corrective measure when he realised that their earlier decision (to not allow the lapped cars to pass) was basically going to hand Lewis the World Championship by virtue of an unconventional decision.
 

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