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
  • Iceman@lemmy.ca
    123·
    10 months ago

    Let’s just call it a race controlling incident and move on. No penalty for the FIA

    • *Tagger*@lemmy.world
      76·
      10 months ago

      Hmmmm, race control incidents something something something always helps max something something something Anu Dhabi.

      • Redredme@lemmy.world
        46·
        10 months ago

        I can remember another race control incident leading to someone else’s world championship.

        Massa does too.

        As a matter of fact I also remember Schumi doing some bullshit to keep hill from winning.

        Let’s move on, shall we?

        For all the bullshit 2021 was one of the best seasons ever. I still hate it that they forced massi out. It was the most entertaining season in decades. Massi delivered. Nowadays race control is boring af.

        • *Tagger*@lemmy.world
          41·
          10 months ago

          What race control incidents affected Massa?

          I don’t entirely blame Masi - he was clearly put under immense pressure to make an entertaining finish to the race but you can’t keep a ‘referee’ in a sport when they decide to ignore and break the rules to make things more fun.

          Should a football referee guide a winning teams a couple of red cards for no reason with a few minutes to go to make things more interesting?

          • R05@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            10 months ago

            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.

            • *Tagger*@lemmy.world
              11·
              10 months ago

              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.

        • Photographer@lemmy.worldM
          41·
          10 months ago

          Massa didn’t lose because of Race Control, he lost because Ferrari botched a pitstop. Had he had a good pitstop then he would have scored points.

    • kerrypacker@lemmy.world
      91·
      10 months ago

      I disagree because a win or position in one race can mean so much. Plenty of drivers would sacrifice the following weekend to win a race.