Formula One 2021 - DRAMA - #Michael Messy

[kiroquai]

Two points worth noting:

 

Tsunoda P4!

 

Sainz finishes above Leclerc in the championship.

[denisb]

I don't care either way about the result but as someone who's not a particular fan of either driver I think Lewis Hamilton was amazing how he accepted the result and congratulated Max 

[ryodi]

Yuki almost got Sainz at the end because the lapped cars stayed where they were in front of him. 

[sprite]

Did any of the lapped cars who went through overtake one another during the last lap?

 

The decision also deprived Ricciardo and Stroll the chance to do anything.  And Schumacher too but I don’t think it was realistic he would  

[feltmonkey]

Kimi Raikkonen has said that he's looking forward to a normal life outside of racing. I've no idea what Kimi's idea of a normal life is, but I feel like we should all be worried.

[sprite]

1 minute ago, feltmonkey said:

Kimi Raikkonen has said that he's looking forward to a normal life outside of racing. I've no idea what Kimi's idea of a normal life is, but I feel like we should all be worried.

I saw a little thing where he said “my plan is I have no plan”, Mostly spending time with his family.

[englishbob]

1 minute ago, sprite said:

I saw a little thing where he said “my plan is I have no plan”, Mostly spending time with his family.

 

It would be amazing if he joined the F1 pundits - totally different perspective and would just cut through the waffle with yes or no, or just a look 

[Nosejam]

More Kimi:

 

Jenson Button has just told a great story about when he was out one night in London with a bunch of F1 drivers and he decided to leave at 3am and head home but when he got back Kimi Raikkonen was randomly just sat in his living room.

Gah. I'm going to miss him.

[MrPogo]

He wasn’t going to let the cars unlap themselves until Horner complained, and if that had been done properly the race never would have restarted so I suppose the official ruling should really be “final lap doesn’t count, sorry Max, take it up with your boss”.

[denisb]

5 minutes ago, englishbob said:

 

It would be amazing if he joined the F1 pundits - totally different perspective and would just cut through the waffle with yes or no, or just a look 

You'd be forever checking you'd not pressed mute on the remote then all of a sudden a string of expletives would burst out .

 

I'm up for that 

[kiroquai]

There’s no way Kimi becomes a pundit. He hated that stuff  it won’t interest him at all.

 

I do feel like we might see Raikkonen Jr on the road to F1 when he’s old enough, though.

[jonamok]

I wonder who will replace the unpopular Michael Masi character on next season’s Netflix show?

[Blue]

Lewis drove a brilliant race today. A real champion's drive. Beat Max off the line on harder tyres, pulled away from Max after checo brought Max back within striking distance, managed to stop Max hunting him down after he pitted to fresh tyres and put up an almighty fight in the last lap against impossible odds. He'll win more championships I'm sure.

[myoozikk]

2 minutes ago, jonamok said:

I wonder who will replace the unpopular Michael Masi character on next season’s Netflix show?

Boris Johnson

[bradigor]

1 minute ago, Blue said:

Beat Max off 

 

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[SeanR]

Well, that was more Masi BULLSHIT…

[Dudley]

7 minutes ago, kiroquai said:

There’s no way Kimi becomes a pundit. He hated that stuff  it won’t interest him at all.

 

I do feel like we might see Raikkonen Jr on the road to F1 when he’s old enough, though.

 

Kimi's largely retiring because he'd like to do the driving without the bullshit.

 

He's probably not signing up to "Just the bullshit".

[Blue]

Kimi to return to the paddock when his son or daughter enters F1.

[myoozikk]

Let’s not forget wing gate…

 

 

[GwiDan]

How much will tickets cost to the Paris round of the F1 Championship?

[MrPogo]

Bernie did always say the championship isn’t official until the FIA prize giving gala, so they’ve got until next Saturday to sort it out.

[Blue]

5 minutes ago, myoozikk said:

Let’s not forget wing gate…

 

 

Lol, Brad Philpot spends his entire time on the Missed Apex podcast whining about Max. He'll be frothing at the mouth about now.

[Bleeders]

 

[layten]

4 minutes ago, Bleeders said:

 

[ryodi]

Are they about to find Max guilty of being 0.02mm ahead of Hamilton behind the safety car. Although a technical infringement for either driver would solve a lot of problems right now.

[Myron]

6 minutes ago, ryodi said:

Are they about to find Max guilty of being 0.02mm ahead of Hamilton behind the safety car. Although a technical infringement for either driver would solve a lot of problems right now.

I can see them using that to deflect any decision making errors on their part being looked at.

[mexos]

Well that was fun eh.

[MrPogo]

10 minutes ago, ryodi said:

Are they about to find Max guilty of being 0.02mm ahead of Hamilton behind the safety car. Although a technical infringement for either driver would solve a lot of problems right now.

That’s why Mercedes protested on that front I suppose. It seems to be clear cut the rules weren’t followed for the restart and that decided the championship, but as Brundle said, what is the punishment for that when neither Max or Red Bull did anything wrong?

[Myron]

2 minutes ago, MrPogo said:

That’s why Mercedes protested on that front I suppose. It seems to be clear cut the rules weren’t followed for the restart and that decided the championship, but as Brundle said, what is the punishment for that when neither Max or Red Bull did anything wrong?

 

As it stands Mercedes and Lewis have been punished for the rules not being followed. Rolling the race result back to the penultimate lap doesn't punish anyone as up until that point all rules had been correctly followed.

[ryodi]

It’s tough isn’t it but that part of the race wasn’t legal. The closest example if two laps being erased at Canada because the flag was flown too early. 

 

https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11390888/canadian-gp-final-two-laps-erased-after-chequered-flag-waved-too-early

 

it didn’t affect the result that time but a mistake by the FIA caused the change.