The leniency afforded to Max Verstappen and Logan Sargeant for impeding in Singapore Grand Prix was an error, stewards have admitted, and will not be used as a precedent for future incidents in Formula 1
It still irks me that people think those upset by the 2021 finale are so because Hamilton didn’t get his 8the world title. In all fairness, Red Bull made the right call to pit at the SC, and if the race would have restarted correctly would have had a fair shot at winning.
Problem is that Massi threw away the rulebook by letting only the cars between Hamilton and Verstappen overtake. If he wanted an epic last 4 lap, then red flag the race, let everyone change tires and see two of the greatest drivers ever in F1 duke it out on track.
Now we got a sour end to an epic season, with many people turned off by the sport and there will always be a footnote with Max’s first WDC.
Yeah, I’maybe 10% upset that Lewis didn’t get his eighth but if gone into the race accepting that whoever won that race, deserved the championship because both the drivers and tes were so good that year.
What I can’t get over is a team being intentionally screwed over in the name of ‘entertainment’. Mercedes made objectively the correct call to not put as the race should, if the rules had been correctly followed, have ended under the safety car.
Instead the rules were incorrectly applied and the wrong driver won the championship. There is no analogue for this - hill/Schumacher was a case of one driver cheating his way to a championship, Massa/Hamilton was a completely separate team cheating and (if you believe Bernie now, though I see no reason to) the authorities shortly after the race choosing to do.nothing about it. 2001 was the race director actively changing the course of the race and choosing a winner of the championship.
It still irks me that people think those upset by the 2021 finale are so because Hamilton didn’t get his 8the world title. In all fairness, Red Bull made the right call to pit at the SC, and if the race would have restarted correctly would have had a fair shot at winning.
Problem is that Massi threw away the rulebook by letting only the cars between Hamilton and Verstappen overtake. If he wanted an epic last 4 lap, then red flag the race, let everyone change tires and see two of the greatest drivers ever in F1 duke it out on track.
Now we got a sour end to an epic season, with many people turned off by the sport and there will always be a footnote with Max’s first WDC.
Yeah, I’maybe 10% upset that Lewis didn’t get his eighth but if gone into the race accepting that whoever won that race, deserved the championship because both the drivers and tes were so good that year.
What I can’t get over is a team being intentionally screwed over in the name of ‘entertainment’. Mercedes made objectively the correct call to not put as the race should, if the rules had been correctly followed, have ended under the safety car.
Instead the rules were incorrectly applied and the wrong driver won the championship. There is no analogue for this - hill/Schumacher was a case of one driver cheating his way to a championship, Massa/Hamilton was a completely separate team cheating and (if you believe Bernie now, though I see no reason to) the authorities shortly after the race choosing to do.nothing about it. 2001 was the race director actively changing the course of the race and choosing a winner of the championship.