BeachBum Posted December 11, 2021 Report Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) I know this isn't normally a hotbed for F1 interest ... but y'all might want to watch tomorrows finale? Max the Axe & Lewis Hamilton have each earned 369.5 points. However as of today ... Max leads the championship tie-breaker with 9 wins over Lewis's 8 wins. Q3 is over. Max is on the pole, Lewis is right next to him. The way these two have battled all season, it might just get settled in the first corner! It's the best fight for any motorsport championship I've seen in a dozen+ years. Race launches on ESPN2 @ 6:55a. I respect Lewis, but I'm pulling for Max. Either way ... it's gonna be an elbows up slugfest you won't want to miss. Edited December 11, 2021 by BeachBum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arob Posted December 11, 2021 Report Share Posted December 11, 2021 These two leave nothing on the table when racing each other. It has been fun to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachBum Posted December 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 It was an exciting F1 season & finale. However, they should have thrown the red flag ... so both cars could be on equal tires for the one lap shootout. F1 is gonna hear about that botched call for a long time! At any rate ... condolences to Lewis ... congrats to Max! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyRodriguez Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 That was good shit, I applaud F1 officials for letting them race. Lots of uproar, just as there would have been had it ended under yellow. Sounds familiar huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachBum Posted December 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 (edited) Hell ya Rodney, there's always someone yellin' ... no matter what you do! -lol- F1 created lightning in a bottle this season. No way they could let that god sent opportunity flame out with yellow lights flashing. But I think it would have been way more climatic to bring them both in under red flag conditions (get the back markers out of the way, like they did) and then let them fight it out on equal terms ... to the end ... on equal tires. Given the circumstances, that would have been the best scenario available, no matter who won in the end! Edited December 14, 2021 by BeachBum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickHolt Posted December 14, 2021 Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 The F1 insiders are all complimentary of the way the series was run this year - but not how the race was called this time. Inconsistent calls and inconsistent penalties designed to make the final race more exciting than it would have been if consistent calls had been made is the chief complaint. As a former race official, I can understand that making instantaneous calls while attempting to go back through all the other calls that were similar in nature is difficult and sometimes the wrong call is make. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachBum Posted December 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 (edited) Nick, I think they took a page out of Nascar on this one. I used to tell the the hot shoes at the driver's meeting ... "if you decide to check out and stink up the show ... I'll find something on the track and bunch up the field again". I warned them before they did it. Just keep it competitive and entertaining, so I don't have to. That's why I preferred inverted fields. That usually solved the problem. I was the promoter and my job was to keep the fans in the stands satisfied. I did almost whatever it took to keep it entertaining. But that was in the short track racing world, not on the F1 stage. Yes, there were numerous inconsistencies on the part of Max. He was taking too many liberties with his lines. But with 5 laps to go, a red flag re-boot would have been much better ... and F1 probably wouldn't have received near as much criticism? At any rate, I don't think F1 will use that model again. But time will tell. I'm ready for 2020! Edited December 14, 2021 by BeachBum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rails Posted December 14, 2021 Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 On 12/13/2021 at 9:09 AM, BeachBum said: It was an exciting F1 season & finale. However, they should have thrown the red flag ... so both cars could be on equal tires for the one lap shootout. F1 is gonna hear about that botched call for a long time! At any rate ... condolences to Lewis ... congrats to Max! Hamilton could have come in for fresh tires just like Max did. He and his team chose not to, they chose track position over frsh rubber. So the fact that they were not on equal rubber falls squarely on them as a team. That is a chance and risk they took. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachBum Posted December 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2021 1 hour ago, rails said: Hamilton could have come in for fresh tires just like Max did. He and his team chose not to, they chose track position over frsh rubber. So the fact that they were not on equal rubber falls squarely on them as a team. That is a chance and risk they took. Yes, and had Mercedes realized what F1 was going to do ... Lewis would've also come in for new tires when Max did. F1 changed the format "after" Lewis drove past pit road, leaving him exposed on old tires. It's neither teams fault. It was a change in protocol ... at the worst possible time to do it. F1 screwed up and they will learn from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachBum Posted December 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2021 (edited) On 12/11/2021 at 11:52 AM, arob said: These two leave nothing on the table when racing each other. It has been fun to watch. Yes, It was fun to watch two warriors race 110% all season long. 2022 should be more of the same! Edited December 15, 2021 by BeachBum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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