I'll say it again, why only those lapped cars?
It's not a sport with that kind of arbitrary decision-making.
Lord Sir Lewis Hamilton of Stevenage
Max Verstappen
Evil Daniel Ricciardo
Less Evil Sebastian Vettel
There was something in the air that night Fernando
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I'll say it again, why only those lapped cars?
It's not a sport with that kind of arbitrary decision-making.
Bullshit indecision from race control, just binning the normal procedure for the show.
This happened in 2008, everyone involved got lifetime banhammers, or near enough.Originally Posted by Yevrah
DRAMA, Jimmy, DRAMA. Everything is about it these days, everything.
It is now. Bring the sprinklers next season.
It’s like Netflix scripted it. Why allow only the lapped cars between Max and Lewis to overtake the safety car? There’ll be appeals and protests galore after this.
None of this sits right with me. "Well, they'll need another lap to let the lapped cars go."
"Race Control: Lapped cars can go, Safety car in immediately."
Hamilton should have blocked the inside, fwiw.
The state of those Dutch idiots.
Imagine being 11 seconds ahead with 3 laps and then being forced to race with your nearest rival up your arse. Beautiful scenes
It's a let off for Jos Verstappens girlfriend at least.
I've obviously not read the sporting regulations but I'd say that unless there's a precedent/provision for allowing some lapped cars but not others to overtake the safety car, Mercedes would be able to sue the FIA.
This is going to end up rumbling on I reckon.
Yep, my nose is twitching and I'm smelling legal. What a shit way to win a record Championship if it comes to that.
I’m in shock here. I can’t believe what we’ve just seen.
The Germans waving ze rule book and seething. Fair play Dutch fans.
They might, but they are not getting the championship back.
When do we get to hear from Lewis?
Here we go, someone pick the bones out of this:
At first glance, any cars that have been overtaken by the leader makes me think it was an extralegal decision by Masi.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 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 teams Competitors via the official
messaging system.
The spectacle is more important than the rules.
Sports Entertainment.
The seethe is already more wonderful than I ever could have imagined. What a win that was.
Kik's gets it.
Someone will have made a call down to whoever controls the safety car regs and said don't you fucking dare let Lewis pass that.
I want to hear from Masi. He simply has to explain the decision he’s made here because he’s effectively took to rules into his own hands for the sake of a one lap shootout.
I’d be calling the Mercedes lawyers right now if I’m Toto.
You let Americans run the sport and the black guy gets shafted.
Drives through everything red bull throw at him and then they just decide fuck it, let’s have Max winning it.
If he'd gone straight for this then fine (or slightly more fine), but the teams were told 'Lapped cars will not be allowed to overtake' and then he changed his mind moments before the restart. He will have to go unfortunately.
It's all very well saying seethe and whatever, but if you don't have sporting regulations that are followed, you don't have a sport. It's like allowing an offside goal to stand because fuck it, the match will be closer this way.
Yet it would have been the best decision in the world had Hamilton held on.
CaLl tHE LawYeRs.
I mean, the crucial turn for me was Mercedes keeping Lewis out there. Fuck track position when you've beaten him for pace for 30-odd laps.
The result won't change now, they've just demonstrated that appearances are more important than anything and that would be the worst look of all.
Such a shame Lewis' Dad got to him before the cameras did.
What's the tl;dr of what's gone on here?
They had to keep him out there. You can't voluntarily go behind your championship rival on track.
Nope. It’s about integrity, not who I want to win.
Or allowing the Dutch to kick the shit out of the Spanish in a World Cup final.
And Masi to go? Be given a massive bonus more like.
Spectacle > sport
That's about it.
There were lapped cars between Max and Hamilton, they should have been enough to stop Max catching him on the last lap, but they changed their mind at the last second to get those cars out of the way.
Safety car comes out with 4-5 laps to go. Lewis stays out. Verstappen pits for fresh rubber. Commentary seems to think they won't get any racing laps unless they leave the lapped cars where they are. Letting them unlap would lead to another delay of one lap.
Horner screams at Masi to let the lapped cars out of the way. Masi obliges and then immediately calls the safety car in. It leads to one lap of racing.
The word you are after lads is NARRATIVE.
Ah come on. I hate Hamilton and I'm delighted he's lost. All the more because he's been robbed. But let's not pretend he hasn't been.
What makes it a rubbish call is that they only let a few cars through when you should let either none or all of them through.
“We went car racing”.
Hamilton had an unassailable lead with about 6 laps to go and then some idiot drove into a wall meaning the safety car had to come out. It came out and as it was going off only lapped cars were allowed to overtake it, by which point Verstappen had cut the lead to nothing and we had a one lap race to decide the title, which Max won.
Even if you love Hamilton, there has to be something beautiful to find in Wolff absolutely raging.
Latifi must me a Massa fan.
Nah, this is DRAMA, NARRATIVE comes next season when Lewis goes for REVENGE.
Next time stop the race, let them both get fresh rubber, pull out all the other cars, and let them have a three lap shootout.
That smug cunt, Horner
God I love this stuff.
The Mrs had the dinner ready just as the safety car went in. I ate it shaking and barely remember it. Some tv.
How would it have gone if Hamilton didn't criticize Saudi Arabia?
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