F1 Season 2021

[MCFC1993]

So how do you come up with a race strategy now when the race director can essentially do as he pleases?

 

[mat]

The interview with Jackie Stewart was very revealing. F1 needed a new champion.

A bit like the Premier League needs a "strategic new winner every 6 years..."

 

[daztrueblue91]

Not really, they've just announced that the Race Controller decides what is in the best interest of the race. It's always been that way, it's just been made blatently obvious after today.

Which opens the sport up to corruption on a huge scale.

 

[domalino]

It won’t go to CAS. Money will change hands, promises will be made to avoid it happening again and they’ll just go again next year. Too much to lose for Mercedes in terms of image. They’ll do the sporting thing and take it on the chin.

The fans’ opinions don’t really matter.

There isn't enough money in the sport to make Mercedes accept investing £400m this season only to get robbed by Michael Masi.

 

[Metal Biker]

If that had been another race it would have finished under a safety car as not enough time for other cars to get back in position. The process was hurried up so there could be a "spectacle" for the last lap.

The FIA pulled some WWE shit to put on an exhibition rather than a sport in order to attract interest world wide.

Yeah they did, as they always do.

Listen i'm not defending the FIA, just as I wouldn't defend UEFA and their bullshit, but it's frutiless going on about it now. The FIA has their own rule book and know every loophole, one that has just been exposed.

You follow the rules as written, but in the end the Race Controller will always have the final say on race day. They didn't want this season to finish under yellows. Remember that if Lewis had managed to hold off Max on that last lap, Red Bull would have put in the same appeal and would have been told the same thing. 'RC rulz, ok'.

 

[mat]

So how do you come up with a race strategy now when the race director can essentially do as he pleases?

The first race next season will be interesting.

"Hamilton's tyres look one inch bigger"

"We'll measure them with the TV technology Christian.....It says you are right."

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

The FIA have just killed F1 as a credible sport. Most of us knew/suspected it wasn't a level playing field but this seals it.

I'm done with it.

 

[blueinsa]

So how do you come up with a race strategy now when the race director can essentially do as he pleases?

You can’t. It’s ridiculous but it was a predictable outcome as they try to circle the wagons.

Merc will either bend over or they will take it further which I hope they do.

 

[lonestay]

The race director is gonna be Horners woman from now on .

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

It was a disgraceful and farcical finish. They should have stopped the race in the end position of cars. Lewis has been cheated. Feel for him.