re: Formula 1 2022 Preseason Thread

In the saga that will never end, at least in the pubs, Mario has weighed in:

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“I would have done exactly the same thing. It’s as simple as that. Okay, there’s been a lot of talk that the race should have been red-flagged. Well, you know what? This accident happened with six laps to go. Under normal circumstances, the track should have been cleared in two laps easily, and then you allow the backmarkers to unlap themselves. But unfortunately, in Formula 1 you have to depend on locals to do the safety work and they were very slow in cleaning up the situation.”

He added: “This is one time when I really think Michael Masi did the right decision to just allow the lapped cars to unlap themselves that were in front of the top five competitors and then to make sure the race was finished under the green, because this was the most anticipated race of the season from a beautiful season and for that race to end behind the Safety Car would have been a tragedy in my opinion, and this way created the excitement. It was racing and it was fair.

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PlanetF1

Honestly, I trust PF1 about as much as leaving my dog in a room with a prime steak in the middle of the floor but I will assume it was said given it was attributed to Mario vs an anonymous source.

I figure this controversy has a 15-20 year lifespan, I remember relitigating 1989 and 1990 fairly often through the mid 2000s but it has waned since then.