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Sorry, but if it was so important to pull the car in, race control should have done so the moment the mirror came off. Letting an unsafe car finish even one lap is irresponsible if race control. You can’t expect […]

@R7 No it is not. Racism not a black and white matter (no pun intended). Context is everything. A black person using the n word has a completely different meaning than a white person using it. The history of […]

as the car-/driver numbers are usually not all that visible.

I remember back in the 80s/90s you could always identify the driver by the number on the car. It was never difficult and so I always knew who was in […]

This 100 times for me.

As a kid I always looked forward to races so much and never felt there were enough of them. Now, whilst I still look forward to them, I lose track of which race is when, how many races […]

The BBC also reported this “event”, so it’s hardly clickbait. It’s mainstream news and I would have been quite surprised if there hadn’t been an article on racefans about it.

Also, you have to understand that […]

Just thinking out loud, but I would wonder if intellectual property rights would get in the way. You pay Newey to develop some aero, but the IP can no longer belong to the team that way (that would definitely be […]

Lots of comments here saying it’s about the FIA not RedBull, but if RedBull had kept off the phone to Masi, the race would have restarted correctly, except there would have been 5 lapped cars between Max and […]

I would have thought if they hadn’t hblapped themselves, they’d have dived out of the way of Max given the circumstances. I don’t think it would have changed the result.

If that is so obvious (and it seems […]

There’s no way you CANNOT appeal this. The problem with F1 is that is a sport in which international corporations (Mercedes, Honda, Ferrari, RedBull etc) invest 100s millions a year. As a whole it might be close […]

Yeah, fully agree with this.

Fully agree 100% with this and have commented as much elsewhere.

is that it’s starting to feel a bit like things are been made up as we are going along & that certain decisions are been made more for the b […]

Let’s be clear: the advantage on the final lap was not Lewis’s. On 40 lap old hards you cannot defend against someone on brand new softs. It’s impossible. Especially when the guy behind wins if you crash. It was […]

They created this excitement today and at the very last lap which will possibly be elongated to the next season.

I’m thinking the same. Massi has been bending the rules one way or another for most of the season […]

If it did end under the SC that would have been the fairest decision as Lewis was way ahead of Max when the SC came out. In the interests of “sport” I don’t want Mercedes to appeal, even as a Lewis fan. But in the […]

“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 this means that they would have run out of laps, I think Mercedes MUST appeal. This is […]

Indeed… he more or less said as much afterwards: “It is great I can see where he is.”

Lewis is thinking the same:

“We are still on the front row, different tyres. It is great I can see where he is.”

Not sure RB will be doing two stops though.

Bottas in 6th on mediums could still be the ace Mercedes have up their sleeve. I think everyone ahead of Bottas starts on softs (except Hamilton). If Bottas can stay close enough to Verstappen to be in front of […]

I think most teams have the capacity to rebuild a car from scratch, but it would mean taking several penalties for new engines, gear boxes and so on.

I never really liked Senna when he was racing, mainly because I was Mansell fan.

But the more I hear about some of his stories (such as the moving wall and possibly saving Eric Comas’s life) I start to think of […]