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re: Formula 1 2021 Season Thread
Posted on 12/13/21 at 3:42 pm to Captain Crackysack
Posted on 12/13/21 at 3:42 pm to Captain Crackysack
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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?
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.
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Posted on 12/13/21 at 4:04 pm to southernelite
That’s the problem though. Mercedes made their strategy decision to not pit Lewis because the two possible outcomes under the rules were A)lapped cars can’t pass the safety car in which case max comes out the pits behind back markers or B) let all of the back markers unlap themselves which ends the race. Clearly merc made their decision with those possibilities in mind. It’s absolute horseshite, in any sport, for a human being to be able to influence the outcome the way Masi did. If Merc would have known that only unlapping some of the back markers was a possibility, they would have pitted Lewis and him and max would have battled out the last lap with both on fresh tires and Lewis wins anyway.
This post was edited on 12/13/21 at 4:09 pm
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