Being new doesn’t mean you are automatically right.
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Absolutely. Although TBH I understand very little of what is discussed in this thread.
You are not alone. You’ll fit in well 
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While true, it’s fair to say there are also ways of expressing that fact that are a little less likely to deter noobs from ever bothering to post again…
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hahahahaha
Pot kettle etc 
You’ve changed, I don’t know who you are anymore.
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I was being nice.
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Sodders is too exhausted from trolling PFM to get his dander up here…
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Both Mercedes and Red Bull did the “right” thing for the circumstances.
The race director went off half cocked. If he let all the cars unlap themselves the race would finish under red flag. If he had just legitimately done the restart with the 4 lapped cars in place they would all have dived out of the way when blue flagged and Verstappen would probably have still won and nobody would have had anything to complain about.
The race director is under a lot of pressure and presumably had another person observing, like Charlie Whiting did in Herbie Blash.
They fucked up big time.
The problem is the last race always takes on absurd importance both because the scores for all the other races are known and it is the last race of the season so people have weeks to fester about it.
Max had bad luck at other races, with the tyre blowout in Baku stands out but that tends to get forgotten.
It is like the tyre failure Mansell had in Adelaide 1986 people festered for ages after that but if the season had been reversed everybody would have forgotten about it by mid season and the last race would have been Brazil where he went off on the first lap.
All the races count equally in actuality.
What we need is a race direction system which works as well as it did with Charlie and Roland before him, which probably means not having radio contact with teams’ sporting directors and definitely not having radio broadcast.
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Definitely this. While it’s interesting to hear the conversations, it’s too easy for casuals to get carried away with it.
Team radio is OK but the added pressure on the Race Director is unnecessary. Pay for it by all means, if you want it, but the average punter doesn’t need it.
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I think the teams badgering the race director like that is something that should absolutely be outlawed. Sure, there needs to be a channel to communicate, but not that directly and not in public.
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Completely agree.
The communication channels should remain, but as Frank said, NOT with Team Principles/sporting directors. And certainly not with the public.
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Oh for fucks sake give it a rest you fucking child.
Every time anyone posts anything you disagree with they’re a fanboi.
This is why I rarely post on this thread, I like F1 but you post some utter wank.
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Oh well.
Like it or not those are the rules. The person in 3rd would have been perfectly entitled to attack Verstappen on the restart.
But were they likely to ?
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I am well aware of the rules. I am also well aware of the players in the game. If you feel so strongly about it, present some evidence.
Perfectly entitled to, but extremely unlikely to, as historically all drivers have been aware of the convention that in the last race, they let the drivers fighting for the championship, fight for the championship, without them getting in the way.
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That’s not the point. They should have been given the chance. The rules were not followed.
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