Grand Prix 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Practice, Qualifying & Race Discussion

[The Artist.....]

I suspect we're going to get 1 (or possibly 2) laps now.

 

[The Pits]

Well, that was a bit of a farce

 

[Hamberg]

Either let them all through or none. Wow. What a shit show.

 

[GeoffP]

Yet another precedent….

 

[Speshal]

^&*(*&^%$%^&&& Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how fucked is that..................

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[The Artist.....]

I suppose the argument is that if the stewards had actually asked Hamilton to give back the place after he went off track on lap 1, then we would have had a different race...

 

[Hamberg]

Masi has to go. He is incapable of dealing with any kind of pressure.

 

[The Artist.....]

Masi has to go. He is incapable of dealing with any kind of pressure.

Have to agree... The race direction has been absolutely terrible all season.

 

[Brogan]

Perfectly scripted.

That's me completely done with F1 now.

 

[Johnny Carwash]

Yikes, think that was gift wrapped.

 

[The Pits]

Hamilton was let down by the team strategy, I think he had the pace to win regardless of lap 1, but the team should have stopped him under the SC. But that last lap was an absolute frace. Michael Masi has proven to be incapable of effective race direction. Real shame for this to be the way this season ends.

 

[Speshal]

An utter travesty.

 

[Johnny Carwash]

Michael Masi what a clown.

 

[The Artist.....]

Mercedes handed the race to Verstappen though - by not stopping under the SC. However, Mercedes were damned if they do, damned if they don't. If they had stopped, Red Bull might have stayed out, and taken track position.

 

[The Pits]

The Artist..... but I think Hamilton had the pace, regardless of anything, o fresher tyres he would have at least had a better than evens chance. Personally I thought it was a no brained.

 

[The Artist.....]

The Pits - My first instinct is to agree, but there were two other elements:

1. If the race hadn't restarted, they would have handed the championship to Verstappen
2. Hamilton wouldn't have had as much of a tyre advantage, as Verstappen's hard tyres were 20 laps younger than Hamilton's

 

[The Pits]

But they had 2 opportunities, under the VSC and the SC. You are right about the second one, but they could have pitted under VSC and come out ahead, the had better tyres at the end

 

[Il_leone]

The championship was decided by Michael Masi

 

[Il_leone]

Red Bull would have stayed out to gain track position

Had there been a restart then everyone would have gone fresh tyres

 

[The Artist.....]

Il_leone - disagree. Being honest, the "lapped cars can overtake" rule is garbage. I'd send the lapped cars through the pitlane to wait until the train has passed - as it's bizarre that a driver should gain a lap because of a safety car.