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@hahostolze Which is worse in F1 – losing 10s or 24m?

@rocketpanda How is 24m a harder penalty than 10s on track?

@petebaldwin To all intents and purposes, they are one and the same thing.

The worst cricket game is more exciting than the 2021 Spa GP.

Move on. He got 12.5 points yesterday for nothing.

@slotopen Half points for not even a single racing lap is an insult to every driver that won legitimate F1 points.

@amg44 This was a farce regardless of which driver won the “race”.

@esploratore1 Then have a sliding scale based on what proportion of racing (key word) laps have been run.

No racing laps = 1/5 points based on qualifying positions.

Then based on race laps, go 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 […]

Too much TV money involved for the race schedule to be changed on the day.

@tricky I don’t think it should have been abandoned earlier, but at the last possible moment. It’s a complete joke to award points for following the SC for two laps and calling it a “race”.

Every driver except Verstappen (for obvious reasons) was complaining there was zero visibility.

@frasier It is worse because even a penalty shootout is competitive. Following the SC for two laps and calling it a race is beyond farcical and an insult to every driver that’s ever scored a legitimate F1 point.

@johnrkh Agreed – awarding points for following the SC for two laps is farcical and an insult to every driver that’s ever scored legitimate F1 points.

It would be better than a DNF because no driver would have picked up points. Would your opinion be that same if Hamilton had qualified on pole?

Awarding points for following the SC for two laps is an insult to […]

Nobody should lose sight of the fact that all the teams agreed to this. As much as they dislike it, they need to get on with it.

I can’t imagine the complexity of trying to introduce, codify and police a system […]

@greenflag Very likely that they never expected to be fighting for a race win and only fueled enough for a normal “mid field run”.

AM knew it was touch and go, why else get Vettel to go into fuel -saving for the last few laps and then stop on track and not return to the pits?

@ruben Bottas has helped Mercedes win both championships the last four years, finishing P2 in the WDC the last two years. From Mercedes perspective, what more could a better driver have done?

Mercedes is not […]

@jeanrien In several races on conventional tracks, Hamilton and Verstappen have been way ahead of their teammates (to the point of being a full pit stop ahead.) If you accept the reality that neither Bottas nor […]

How have they been “more in favour” towards Hamilton for qualifying? The drivers still take it in turns to decide whether they want to go out first or second for qualifying.