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Just now, The Swan and Cemetery said:

They gave it to Red Bull on a plate, thought if you let lapped cars through, you have to let them catch up? Lapped cars allowed through and Verstappen able to get onto new soft tyres meant it was no contest final lap. 2 freebie pit stops won that. 

Some lapped cars let through, only the ones between Lewis and Max. None of the others. Protocol thrown out the window for the marketeers preferred result

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1 minute ago, WarksRobin said:

Some lapped cars let through, only the ones between Lewis and Max. None of the others. Protocol thrown out the window for the marketeers preferred result

Yep, basically organised to get Verstappen on Hamilton’s back tyres, with new soft tyres vs knackered hard tyres, great racing… oh no, just marketing as you say. 

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6 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Very classy from Lewis

Yep, wouldn't have got that interview a few years ago. Was actually expecting his helmet to go flying when he got out of the car.

You can understand the ruling in some respects - the comment from Massey about racing is fair enough, but it does stink.

No accident results in Max having to get through the pack and race Lewis. That ruling just gives Max the chance to run at Lewis on fresher tyres, with nobody between them and give no chance of Lewis getting the chance to "race back". 

Horner would be steaming if firstly Red Bull were in Mercedes position now, and secondly if they would have said we'll extend the race by 2 laps to give you both the chance to race properly.

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6 minutes ago, TomF said:

Can you imagine if that was the other way around how much crying Karen would be doing? That’s what sucks, he’d be going batshit crazy, Max wouldn’t even take the podium 

Beat me to it by seconds.

Absolute shocking end to a great season. 

Makes good television though!

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1 minute ago, East Londoner said:

You have to wonder whether Mercedes’ will be protesting the result given rules were made up for the good of the show which disadvantaged the lead car 

 

They're never going to overturn the result, but I imagine lawyers are being consulted by Merc. 

It really highlights how vague the FIA rules are. There should be cast-iron regulations to decide on situations like this. It shouldn't be left to the race director and stewards to interpret things how they wish. 

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2 minutes ago, Super said:

People saying Max was lucky seem to forget the luck Lewis had to win his first title.

Not really got much to do with this though. The issue is the FIA should have either let ALL lapped cars through or none. Not the 5 in-between Hamilton and Verstappen so they could have a race on the last lap.

Just doesn't sit right with me and a shame the season had to finish under such controversial circumstances. There's lot of people (including a few in this thread) saying it was the first race they've watched in X number of years and won't again because of the ending. That's what this race will be remembered for.

As a side note, I was impressed at how magnanimous Hamilton was after the race. Obviously disappointed, but still did interviews, congratulated Max and stayed on the podium sprayed him with champagne and congratulated Max and Horner. Where was Max on the podium at Jeddah? He ran off out the back immediately the national anthems were gone. Seems strange that the 'Hamilton haters' won't bring this up...

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9 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

They're never going to overturn the result, but I imagine lawyers are being consulted by Merc. 

It really highlights how vague the FIA rules are. There should be cast-iron regulations to decide on situations like this. It shouldn't be left to the race director and stewards to interpret things how they wish. 

Two protests have been launched, So we could go from a unsatisfactory way of deciding the champion to a even more unsatisfactory one 

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Just now, East Londoner said:

Two protests have been launched, So we could go from a unsatisfactory way of deciding the champion to a even more unsatisfactory one 

 

I'd be stunned if they overturned the race result - and remember Mercedes did still win the constructors championship.

You've got to question Michael Masi's future at FIA though. 

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