re: Formula 1 2021 Season Thread

It’s a race. Weird stuff happens.

I didn’t mind them letting those cars pass. They obviously had the time to do it and they could go down the track and race their race.

Merc was never going to do anything different based on when Lewis passed pit entry.


The worst call of the day was the opening lap run out.

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What’s the point of racing for 58 laps when the guy who’s dominating for 57 of them can have his advantage erased by the race director?

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An untimely safety car is always a possibility. If this had happened and they raced 2-3 laps would you see the same controversy? Doubtful. If the ending was unfair, it wasn’t unfair to Mercedes, it was unfair to Sainz. With the desire to end the race under green flags (correct decision) and the desire to not influence the WDC (correct decision) the only move was only let the cars between the 2 WDC rivals through. Typically there is more time to un-lap all cars but I don’t think the other 2 would have made it and you can’t un-lap before the wreck is cleared because by default, they’re going faster than the Safety Car.

The thing it also does it prevent any of the drivers between the 2 of them to have to make a decision on whether to let Max by them before the restart or to race him into the first turn and possibly be under their own scrutiny for not clearing the way.

The only two with anything left to race for were Max and Lewis. The constructors standings were pretty much slated. Sainz could have grabbed a P2 potentially but so what.