It's getting to the point that you can't race Max.
He has no racers code.

www.autosport.com/f1/news/hamilton-consensus-on-f1-overtaking-rules-doesnt-apply-to-one-of-us/6856476/

For me, Max always was, and will be going forward, an arrogant C.

The points orchestration by the Stewards is tiresome.
I suppose it's good for the ratings.

Lewis and Valtteri don't even look at Max on the podium. He just shuffles off.

Not really, i think schumacher was very calculated in everything he did wheras max just doesnt seem to care about the rules and has a just do it and sod the consequences attitude

Post qually interview

What a nice guy Max is - when he's winning 🙂

So it went down to the final lap in what seemed to be a safety car manufactured to favour Verstappen after an unfortunate crash by Latifi. Congrats to Verstappen, gutted for Hamilton. It was a hell of a season and will not be forgotten soon. The partisan fans will rage but F1 has won in providing some much needed excitement.

Roll on next season with a new formula and 18" wheels.

Race classification

1 Max Verstappen Red Bull
2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 2.256s
3 Carlos Sainz Ferrari 5.173s
4 Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 5.692s
5 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 6.531s
6 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 7.463s
7 Lando Norris McLaren 59.200s
8 Fernando Alonso Alpine 61.708s
9 Esteban Ocon Alpine 64.026s
10 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 66.057s
11 Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 67.527s
12 Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 1 LAP
13 Lance Stroll Aston Martin 1 LAP
14 Mick Schumacher Haas 1 LAP

Did not finish

Sergio Perez Red Bull
Nicholas Latifi Williams crash
Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo gearbox
George Russell Williams
Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo brakes

I have to be honest, I gave up watching F1 many years ago, after being a real fan for a long time, from the days of Jackie Stewart, and Emerson Fittipaldi, and later on  Hunt the Shunt of course. Sunday nights were always spent in the pub discussing the afternoon's race when the season was on.

When the scales tipped from tyre changes helping drivers to win races to tyre changes winning races my interest waned. I still keep in touch, peripherally, with what's going on, but it's more of an academic interest these days, and I've got nowhere near the depth of knowledge I used to have about the sport.

As an outsider though, watching this season unfold, there seemed to be a degree of "stage management" to proceedings, and if I were Hamilton I'd probably be mighty pissed about now.

What made today's race special, in that it was the only one where some lapped cars were allowed to unlap themselves under the safety car, for instance?  As Lando Norris said...


I'm not going to scream "fix" because there are far too many variables to definitively fix a race if the teams themselves are playing by the rules, but at the back of my mind there's still the nagging thought that it was deemed better for the sport if Hamilton took a year off from winning, and a new young superstar was introduced to the public.

Having said all that, I find it difficult to excuse F1 for staging races in so many places with poor to downright nonexistent human rights laws. Like most sports, it's all about the money, and that's literally all that matters. There are no other considerations whatsoever.

Mercedes have, needless to say, lodged an appeal. Could there be one more twist to the story? Nah, probably not, it'll just look like Verstappen has won it twice.

I listened to the radio coverage rather than watching the race, i dont really like listening to coulthard...
I didnt know that the safety car regs had not been followed. As far as i understand it, under the safety car all lapped cars are to pass the safety car, go around, and form up in order at the back of the pack. There is then one final safety car lap when the safety car peels off into the pits and racing gets going again once the leader passes the safety car line. To only allow a handful of cars past and then get racing while those handful are still on the same lap without forming up is utterly ludicrous.
Its a safety car. The procedure is there to prevent accidents. Its procedures are set in stone.
How can the fia justify breaking its own rules?
It just beggars belief that mercedes even have a case to take to them, which unless my understanding is wrong, they do have a case for the fia to answer.
Utterly shambolic and a massive disservice to both lewis and max, and merc and rbr

Formula 1 looks like a right set of twats this evening

Posted at 18:55
'Really unsatisfactory'

Jennie Gow
BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter

This is fascinating now. Mercedes and Red Bull will be told the decision jointly.

Then they will come out and hopefully we will all hear what they have to say.

The world's media is waiting to hear the same result and they all say the same thing - this is really unsatisfactory.

Yep, just saw it, not surprised.