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@milesy-jam I would have watched an hour of qualifying instead of the sprint race so its really not boosting viewership. The classic qualifying and race format has been fine for 70 years. Fix the car issues and […]

This is another example I think where they handed out a joke penalty last year to Hamilton that has now meant there is a precedent to give a time penalty for maintaining the racing line and pushing people wide. […]

I actually voted Verstappen for once for getting the grand slam but Norris was immense.

@thegianthogweed I wonder how many defending Verstappen lambasted Hamilton last year for his practice starts.

Some serious people in denial in here. It was unsafe and stupid. Thankfully there was no incidents though so no penalty needed but its pretty fair for those in charge to ask for it not to be done on the pit […]

Voted Norris but Verstappen was great and will get enough votes to win.

Weird choice not to include Norris as a star but have Alonso there.
The deleted lap time for Norris was so marginal and he did outqualify his teammate so it’s not like he did a slow lap in qualifying. He also […]

Went for Norris, Great overtakes and maximised his result.

A lot of people believe that to be the case, its pretty clear that at best the cars are equal but Mercedes are not the fastest anymore.

Don’t see why this is such a bone of contention. Clearly some teams are using tricks to get more out of the tyres than others and have done for years. Adding more regulation doesn’t affect you as fans or viewers […]

The only justification he needed was to say the red flag was thrown on safety grounds due to tyre concerns and the debris spread across the fastest part of the track. He can say the race was then restarted […]

@carbon-fibre both safety cars were ridiculous the amount of time it took to call the safety car, if nothing else they have a VSC they can implement immediately and then decide if they throw the full safety car […]

Pirelli will blame debris as usual and of course nobody else will now get to view the evidence to prove any different. You can’t have the same people as poacher and gamekeeper. We’ll of course have to take […]

@balue There has been numerous instances of issues with tracks not found until after cars have been around the track so there is absolutely improvements that could be made to the track checks and maintenance. I […]

@balue why not make qualifying actually mean you have to actually qualify again. See how many teams put up with drivers binning their cars in qualifying then.

What is now, 4 qualifying sessions ruined by poor driving. Something needs to change.

Maybe its time that if you crash and retire then you don’t qualify full stop.

Driving for a team that’s spent 7 years whining to slow down Mercedes this seems a bit rich.

@roger-ayles I agree there is no obvious perfect solution. The key issues for me is the proposal made doesn’t fix the issue that one driver can cause others to lose out on laps and penalizing the driver that made […]

I think its something that needs reviewing at some point as it’s not fair when drivers get knocked out because they didn’t get a clean lap due to others being to blame but how you manage that fairly is the issue. […]