I still regret the demise, on TV, of rally car racing..., that was something I could aspire to...along with scoring the winning goal at Wembley, but that is another story
In 2020, there was a safety-car period during the Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring. Both Hamilton and Verstappen complained it had been unnecessarily long. Masi was asked about this after the race. He said: "There's a requirement in the sporting regulations to wave all the lapped cars past." he seems to have changed his mind since last year..?
Lots of changes for 2022 - all designed to promote closer racing/ less impact for following cars: 10 things you need to know about the all-new 2022 F1 car | Formula 1®
More tweaking of the goalposts to make the series more appealing to the great unwashed . It'll always be a spectacle but the undercurrents won't change , whatever regs are brought in the first thing all the teams will do is look for loopholes - standard practice. Stinks really .... Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
Yes and know. A tiny advantage multiplied by X laps makes all the difference. My old mini racing mate was no different - his son drove, he mechaniced and was obsessed. If you can get 1/4HP up on the next guy and achieve a 2ft advantage per lap and it's 20 laps, you are miles ahead. Then he'd moan when he won too because the scrutineers would take his engine to pieces, measure what they wanted and leave him with a pile of parts. lol
I miss the rallying too, you can find it on a few pages on Facebook and the WRC highlights on channel 5 i think
Are you a fisherman Zed? 2ft per lap x 20 laps = 40ft rather than miles! That is type of overestimating befitting of the fisherman who forgot his scales!
You get the idea though- a seemingly small advantage over a long distance = a big advantage. I underexaggerated the effect, he'd win by half a lap with a car length a lap advantage. Even in mini racing they got deliberately crashed off the track lapping the title fighter because unlike F1 it was just him to rebuild the car before the next race ... at work... between jobs! And like F1 the stewards decided otherwise... in his mind because the rival is big matey with everyone in the scene where my mate is a miserable git underdog. These shenanigans are not reserved for F1
It's being rumoured that Mercedes have dropped their right to a review of the Abu Dhabi GP race result. Its also rumoured that it's Lewis Hamilton who is behind them dropping it as Lewis feels it's unsportsmanlike and he wouldn't want to win it that way.
What does that say about the opposition then if it’s true. I think the teams should swap drivers next year and see how that goes!
I think that would the right ending and the best thing for the integrity of the sport. A moral victory. What i hope is that he and mercedes absolutely wipe the floor with them next year!!
