F1 2021

[Lord Camomile]

And, according to Ted Kravitz on Sky, the safety car would come in at the end of the following lap.

So yeah, Masi decided to overrule the rules, rather than let them play out.

 

[ricbake]

Safety car rules

39.12 If the clerk of the course considers it safe to do so, and the message "LAPPED CARS MAY NOW OVERTAKE" has been sent to all teams via the official messaging system, any cars that have been lapped by the leader will be required to pass the cars on the lead lap and the safety car.

Safety car should have stayed out until all lapped cars had passed

 

[MrCurry]

Champion only due to a stupid race that shouldn’t have been, and stewards being twats. Fuck this, F1 is broken.

Spa contributed only 5 points to Max’s total and he’s just won the championship by more than that, so spa is irrelevant.

 

[Ax^]

fair play for your deligence with news updates and rule changes 1%er


hopefully the bar bill is not that painful

 

[Petcha]

So im summary, the referee was wrong but it's also so obscure how could he be expected to know all this while the cars are going around the track at high speed with a few laps to go?

 

[MrCurry]

Congrats to Max. I haven’t always agreed with his approach this year, but he‘s driven his little socks off and soundly beaten every teammate in his Red Bull years.

After six years trying, he deserves to win his title and the drama of that last twist in the story is good for the sport I reckon. Lewis has every right to feel hard done by - he deserved to win too, but Max is a worthy winner.

I was supporting Lewis but I can live with this result. F1’s championship year in 2021 will be talked about in the same breath as 2008, and that ain’t bad.

 

[Petcha]

Is there a massive difference in the pay packet for the winners and runners up for this?

 

[Lord Camomile]

So im summary, the referee was wrong but it's also so obscure how could he be expected to know all this while the cars are going around the track at high speed with a few laps to go?

Again, genuine question rather than rhetorical: is it that obscure? Restarts after SCs are fairly common, and everyone seemed to be surprised some cars were being let through but not all.

 

[Ax^]

with one lap to go


Masi has the power to make a sporting decision but like the rest of the year he made a fuck up of it

 

[Ax^]

Is there a massive difference in the pay packet for the winners and runners up for this?

Money comes from the Constructors more than the drivers world championship

plus quite sure merc get a legacy payment

 

[Ax^]

Bottas the prefect team mate


no disrespect to you Nico


but lewis thinks you are a c**t

 

[Lord Camomile]

Is Damon Hill really saying "teams know the rules aren't being applied consistently, so they should just try and fuck around and get away with breaking as many as they can"??

 

[Ax^]

Let Max keep the WC


But sack Masi and the FIA needs serious looking at

 

[steveo87]

Five lap shoot out.

 

[Ax^]

pfft trial by combat


between Horner and toto

 

[Sasaferrato]

They are all wallies that can go dry 'em to their 'home' where they pay their taxes...But what a nonsense of a sport.

Where they don't pay their taxes.

Hamilton (you know, that eco-warrior) bought himself a plane, via the Isle of man to dodge paying the VAT.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Mercedes have lodged two protests.

 

[Ax^]

Sas lets not start getting political about this

could easily go into do people dislike lewis because of his stance against racism and BLM

 

[Indeliblelink]

Five lap shoot out.

Make Toto & Christian have to race 5 laps.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Bottas the prefect team mate


no disrespect to you Nico


but lewis thinks you are a c**t

I think if anyone can be described as a c**t, this about covers it. Prefix 'idiotic'.

 

[ricbake]

Mercedes have lodged two protests.

It says you can't do what the race director let them do because he wanted to have a racing finish

Regs

48.8 With the exception of the cases listed under a) to h) below, no driver may overtake another car on the track, including the safety car, until he passes the Line
(see Article 5.3) for the first time after the safety car has returned to the pits.
The exceptions are:

a) If a driver is signalled to do so from the safety car.​

b) Under Articles 41.1c), 48.12, 51.6 and 51.12 below.​

c) When entering the pits a driver may pass another car remaining on the track, including the safety car, after he has reached the first safety car line.​

d) When leaving the pits a driver may overtake, or be overtaken by, another car on the track before he reaches the second safety car line.​

e) When the safety car is returning to the pits it may be overtaken by cars on the track once it has reached the first safety car line.​

f) Whilst in the pit entry, pit lane or pit exit a driver may overtake another car which is also in one of these three areas.​

g) Any car stopping in its designated garage area whilst the safety car is using the pit lane (see Article 48.11 below) may be overtaken.​

h) If any car slows with an obvious problem.​

48.12 If the clerk of the course considers it safe to do so, and the message "LAPPED CARS MAY NOW OVERTAKE" has been sent to all Competitors via the official messaging system, any cars that have been lapped by the leader will be required to pass the cars on the lead lap and the safety car.
This will only apply to cars that were lapped at the time they crossed the Line at the end of the lap during which they crossed the first Safety Car line for the second time after the safety car was deployed.
Having overtaken the cars on the lead lap and the safety car these cars should then proceed around the track at an appropriate speed, without overtaking, and make every effort to take up position at the back of the line of cars behind the safety car. Whilst they are overtaking, and in order to ensure this may be carried out safely, the cars on the lead lap must always stay on the racing line unless deviating from it is unavoidable. Unless the clerk of the course considers the presence of the safety car is still necessary, once the last lapped car has passed the leader the safety car will return to the pits at the end of the following lap.
If the clerk of the course considers track conditions are unsuitable for overtaking the message "OVERTAKING WILL NOT BE PERMITTED" will be sent to all Competitors via the official messaging system.

 

[Ax^]

I think if anyone can be described as a c**t, this about covers it. Prefix 'idiotic'.

*gives Sas the hill top


you're move next

 

[ricbake]

I think if anyone can be described as a c**t, this about covers it. Prefix 'idiotic'.

Met Gala 2021: Lewis Hamilton hosts emerging Black designers on his own table
Seems like a real twats stunt...

 

[Limejuice]

Way too much Nico Rosberg.

 

[dessiato]

Met Gala 2021: Lewis Hamilton hosts emerging Black designers on his own table
Seems like a real twats stunt...

Nice shoes though.

 

[Ax^]

nico juices flowing :/

 

[Lord Camomile]

Fucking hell! Is this actually the maddest thing to come from the whole race?!

 

[Epico]

It's been nearly an hour and I am still quietly seething. God only knows how Toto Wolf is feeling.

 

[MrCurry]

I don’t doubt how hard it is to act as race director in a season such as we’ve had, but boy haven’t we missed Charlie Whiting this year.

I don’t know how history will judge the way this race was run by the FIA, but it doesn’t have the appearance of fairness and transparency which a sport with so much money invested requires. I hope they learn lessons and improve.

ps.. no wonder he struggles to control the race when the teams seem to occupy half his time with whinging via talkback comms. Get him an answerphone!

 

[spitfire]

A reminder of what we're going to be looking at next year.

2021 Formula 1 car revealed as FIA and F1 present regulations for the future | Formula 1®

This is the moment F1 fans have been waiting for: a first proper look at both the cars that will do battle in 2021, and the regulations that will reshape Grand Prix racing as we know it.

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