After Lewis got to cut the track and gain a position and a 1.5 second advantage with no penalty, fuck them. Mercedes got what they deserved.
They’ve got nothing. F1 owns the ball and the playing court. Nobody in their right mind is going to overturn a race result like this after the fact. Mercedes not winning yet another title is the best thing to happen to the sport in a decade or more.
What happened, in layperson terms?
Have they tried just driving faster?
Merc is going to drop the lawsuit tho
Hamilton could have pitted just as Verstappen did. But I’m sure Mercedes would be singing a different tune if he had, Verstappen stayed out, and the race ended under safety car (or if it was red flagged and Verstappen changed tires for free). He was fucked by virtue of being the leader. Shit happens in Nascar all the time with green-white-checker finishes. If the leader stays out, everyone else pits. If the leader pits, 10 cars will stay out and he loses anyway. If Latifi doesn’t crash, he cruises to a 10 second win.
Well they can because they did, and it was dodgy as fuck. Merc will drop it because taking it further will do more damage to the sport and it's not like Lewis won't have an asterisk on this shampship if he claims it just as Verstappen has one now. Idk how Merc will go about lobbying to make sure this doesn't happen again but I really doubt they continue with this to change the result. The only reason to do so would be the bonuses due to the employees, I doubt Lewis would want it to go through soley based on winning but I'm sure he does mean it when he talks about employees' incentives mattering to him. I doubt anyone wants to win a race in court.
Why do the sponsors care?
And if you go to court you really won't trust anything F1 ever does again, if you think going to court will provide trust in F1 then l-m-a-o
I could see them demanding Masi resign as director and an inspection of the rule book and how it is handled when not followed to the letter though.
Why do the sponsors care whether their logo is on a world champion's car? Why do they care about the endorsement and marketing power of having the eight time undisputed statistical GOAT World Champ?
I don't think they're going to look good either way but closing ranks looks worse.
They can't have the marketing power of the 8 time undisputed GOAT World Champ. They could have the 7 time undisputed world champ but this will be disputed no matter what. And yeah, Merc and RB are equally famous this year, they lose zero money by sponsoring merc in a loss so it makes no sense. If the sponsors care about the most watched driver's shampship because they lost on the last lap of the last race they funny
Nascar does it all the time. This is no longer a sport, it’s entertainment. The sooner you reconcile with that, the lower your blood pressure will be.It was rigged for a spectacle, and you can't do that.
Nascar does it all the time. This is no longer a sport, it’s entertainment. The sooner you reconcile with that, the lower your blood pressure will be.
If the sponsors are mad enough to force legal action then F1 is already dead, that is absolute insanity.
F1 has been struggling. Now it just took a massive dump on the best season it's had in 20 years, so yes, it's dead.
We just did it first, money talks and it will soon turn everything sacred into entertainment
You sweet summer child
Bless ur heart
I think you're failing to understand you aren't better than us, you're just late. The super league is totally different and it amuses me that you're using that to declare your superiority. It's fun when we disagree because you talk shit and it's hilarious. F1 will start making moves based on tension and "what's best for tv" and it will only grow the sport to your dismay. Welcome to the 21st century, Europe.
I'm not shit talking. The Super League was a rejection of EXACTLY what you are saying - More tv games, more games with the big teams against each other, protection of the major brands etc... It is exactly what happens in America, devised by Americans and the European fans said fuck off.
If you think there's no parallel with the way in which (if you followed the European news) the way that race was won is being rejected, then I don't know what to say other than what GoBlue's saying. Europeans are just more intelligent and value different things in general. That's just a fact.
lmao you can't read I guess. Idk what to tell you, it is inevitable so I guess just stop watching now if you don't want to see it.
Unless you think I'm talking about Merc/RB/Mclaren/Ferrari starting their own league I have no idea what the super league has to do with this. I guess in your mind making controversial decisions for drama is the same as starting a new league but I just don't see how they are the same. To be clear I don't think the top 4 will be starting a new league if that's where the confusion was
It's about the Americanisation of European sports by Americans. It's about trying to manufacture more "big" moments at the cost of fairness. That is what is happening in F1 and what happened in trying to form the Super League. If you can't see that parallel you're being deliberately obtuse.