Maybe he could teach his team a thing or two... This whole shouting and calling in the legal team is undignifying and childish.

@@martins3993 tbf, if I were in their position I would challenge it as far as the Court of Arbitration for Sport as it sets a bad precedent. If a race director decided to only partially apply rules at his or her discretion it creates unfair competition. For example, Sainz could have finished first or second if the cars between him and Verstappen were also cleared. Masi's decision disregarded the impact on the rest of the racers who were still competing for points.

@@McGirtUK like for real, this championship is a million dollar program for mercedes, getting "scammed" out of it by the FIA is a huge deal. I can totaly understand that people may find this appeal thing wrong for the sport, but its a more than understadable step for a multimillion dollar operation.

@@martins3993 Red Bull has been doing this all season long.. except of course now when the biggest of presents was given.. so they also have a thing or 2 to learn from Lewis.

@@McGirtUK Sorry if I sound antagonistic, but this is a literal case of "you reap what you sow". The "race director has the discretion to apply the rules" has been a thing for years and teams don't like to challenge it because that discretion can help them. For example this very race, Hamilton gaining an advantage by driving outside, you don't see Mercedes wanting to return position because "is illegal to gain an advantage offtrack", they were very happy there to go "if the race director said it was fine, is fine" Hell, Fernando Alonso is one of the most outspoken about this and Lewis/Mercedes fans were pretty happy to call him a crybaby over it when it didn't affect THEM. And besides, is all Mercedes trying to shift the blame, if they had changed tires they probably would have won, but they didn't and is 100% on them.

they belong in the bin

Liberty obviously owns everything. Whatever driver has the most fans wins now. FIA will always back Michael in his very poor decision's. It has now become a freak show, and everyone will pay to see a freak. It ain't racing anymore when rules and regulations change every 15 seconds just to create drama. 90% of the drivers don't agree with what happened, the only drivers that do are employees of Honda or RB. Sorry Michael, you can't make a definitive decision if your testicle depends on it. Good luck next year, because I'm thinking you will be out of a job.

💯 maFIA JOB

Yeah, unfair race Lewis have 57 laps leading Max only have 1 laps leading 😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@mini_steve So much so. Watching every second of this season and particularly this weekend on my F1TV account, it was evident in these final post race interviews that the other drivers themselves didn't want to give a full-blown congratulations to Verstappen without acknowledging that Hamilton was on the raw end of a bias situation. I honestly didn't care who won, but the way this all went down at conclusion has been pathetic. Absolutely ungentlemanly and pathetic.

Bring back 2012

I dont think that has anything to do with it

Rant: Carlos (3rd) had Riccardo and some other lapped car infront of him does he not get a chance to overtake Max or Lewis too???? it feels very weird... If you want lapped cars to go past safety car let all lapped cars go past it, the race isn't just max and Lewis lol or it shows dodgey-ness... I wouldn't have lapped the safety car and ask Lewis/ Merc for a favour/ $

F1 has always had periods of one team dominating for a long period followed by an upheaval. I mean Schumis dominance was perhaps the lowest point ever for F1. Imagine one person dominating and there are no overtakes at all. Yup that's how I remember 2000-2004. In the early 90s the Williams was so dominant they had to ban things seemingly every five minutes just to ensure the other cars were participating in the same race. I think generally there is more competition now than before over the long run. But as the FIA themselves say "Our role is to respect the rules and to be impartial and fair and transparent,". This statement speaks so much more. They are publicly answering to team criticisms and inadvertently proving our point while they do it.

The FIA say in the post race report they wanted the cars to race and not finish under safety car. They also did not want lapped cars to interfere in the two leaders battle. Everything they did can be backed up by regulations which is why Mercedes ptotest was rejected. Makes sense doesn't it.

And Alonso said the opposite about the unlapped cars not initlally being allowed through, so whats your point? Would you want the championship deciding race to end under a safety car?

The unlapped cars should've been let through several laps before. The stewards fucked up and tried to rectify their mistake. That is what is causing all this confusion. It's standard procedure to let the lapped cars go through, not the other way around.

@@denegra they can’t let cars through till track is clear which happened on lap 57. By the standards of the book and years worth of precedents, the SC should have been out therefore until the end of lap 58, meaning Lewis wins. Merc banked on it taking a while to clean up Latifi, their bet paid off and then Masi decided to change standards to fit what he wanted.

Yeah, Hamilton got fucked!!

Daniel couldn't have summed up that better, for me, the most bullshit ending to ANY motorsport season I've watched in last 17 years (ironic F1 started my love for motorsport) so happy to cut F1 out of my life for good now & will invest my viewing time in World Rally Championship, British Touring Cars, MotoGP & Superbikes

Your on point there I’ve always liked it but this year I’ve watched every race

Definitely

Completely agree. Been a great season for getting new watchers into the sport and also those who'd fallen out of love with it.

Old hands who have watched and attended F1 races, ( as well as other forms of motorsport) wont have seen anything like this in a final before where it boiled down to the last race last lap where the. existing rules were so obviously either ignored or manipulated. Although i come from Red Bulls base area and former teams like jaguar and Arrows, this race result leaves a sour taste in the mouth and I cant say its a celebration of the sport. This will probably be dubbed the Netflix Win .... because the sport didn't.

It is a Marmite sport and I love it. Well done Max on your first title win, respect from a Lewis fan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🏻 Ps can't wait for George Russell next season 🔥👌🏻

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Really? It took you that long? It waas clear since silverstone that something fishy was going on

I can think of quite a few that actually suspend or partially enforce orders depending on if the team accepts fault, and is fully enforced if they do the same thing again.

@@XxmillerniaxX- That's different. In this case, there was uncertainty about the consequences for Red Bull of rejecting the offer. Rules have to be as clear as possible before they are being applied. That has been one of the most fundamental legal principles for many centuries. If you start negociating about the rules on the basis of incomplete information, you are entering the domain of Game Theory, which will quickly turn into politics if decision making authorities are involved that are supposed to enforce and interpret the rules. Rules will always be incomplete, because there will always be exceptional cases that cause inconsistencies, uncertainty and situations of conflict. Interpretation of the existing rules in unforseen, atypical situations will therefore always be necessary. However, interpreting the rules is not the same as breaking the rules, and I think all F1 teams are aware of that, which is of course why they hire lawyers all the time, especially Mercedes.

Don’t forget red flags in Saudi 🚩 on matters of safety 🤷‍♂️

@@j.vonhogen9650 Even courts with laws and sentencing don't have one size fits all, hence plea bargaining, paroling, minimum-maximum fines, time off for good behavior. Your only talking about F1...

Kimi for RD that would be brilliant to see

Seb or Alonso would make a great race director, lets hope thats what they do in 2023 or whenever they retire

wdym??? this was the GREATEST ENDING EVER!!!

Mate, give this poor man a break, he needs to be the driver, the pit crew, the strategist, the inspector, the fire fighter, the medical car driver and now the race director?!

@@jkliao6486 he always gets his drincc so he'd be okay

Consistently inconsistent.

The FIA has always been like this, not just this year. Track limits is a good example. 1 race you can go 1 car length wide, no worries mate say FIA next race, go 1" wide, black & white flag.

Charlie Whiting is turning in his grave at all this. Masi needs to go!

@@IIGrayfoxII it has always bothered me though

@@IIGrayfoxII And people still complain about F1 games penalty system not being realistic.

Can you please explain to me how one decision from the race director tainted the season? Masi did the right thing which was pave the way for a one lap championship showdown. The rest of it is just some really bad coping from the Hamilton stans. It's embarrassing. However way you look at it, whether Masi messed up or not, the final lap would've been a 1 lap showdown between verstappen and hamilton, and verstappen would've won.

@@Mark-zk3gu ill just give a few incidents: Brazil, Silverstone, Monza, Spa ( because they classified it as a race), Saudi Arabia, Austria (giving ridiculous penalties) and Masi's Inconsistency. I also disagree that the final race would've been a 1 lap showdown anyway. Lewis was keeping up with Max's pace and max had 5 lapped cars to pass. I was a neutral so I don't really care who won but masi made everything in the regulations much more confusing to the fans and the drivers who disagree with each other on what is and isn't allowed.

@@Mark-zk3gu 2 decisions in this race, one unfair to max, the other to lewis and that's just this race, there have been countless throughout the season.

@@Mark-zk3gu There was no show down. There was 0 chance of Lewis keeping Max behind on tires that were something like 30 laps older. That's the sport. Putting Max right behind Lewis gave him the race win and championship. It erased the 50 something laps of amazing driving that Lewis had done. SC's are part of the sport and they often have that effect. But a specific decision made by Race Control that seemingly went against their own regulations and ways they've done things in the past resulted in that supposed "1 lap showdown". People that don't understand the sport might think Max passed Lewis out of pure skill. It was essentially luck in that RC put him there.

@@BallisticTech ANd that is Mercedes Fault, THEY had the exact same chance to go in to the pit, But chose not to! You cant blame the Fia for them beeing on worse tires, Its a final, For a championship, in a motor-race, Not your average field-day! Redbull took a bet and it worked, Becuase it should be decided by racing, And not a safety car just because Mercedes did not change tires.

I don’t honk the closeness of the battle should’ve been a factor. The rules are the rules and Mass seemed unwilling to follow them consistently.

@@rickjohnson9856 truly agreed. Atleast to watch on TV from India, got the feel he was a substitute of red bull...

They have specific rules. They just choose not to follow them...

@@nickmullen2830 right now they are playing lawyer games. "any lapped car" does not mean "all lapped cars". so the could have picked 2 or three cars from anywhere on the track to unlap themselves. they literally have the ability to do that based on that interpretation. it's ridiculous. after hearing massi negotiating with horner last week this is the icing on the cake.

@@Kevinschart Totally agree. In dozens of other races, the race director has never just let a few cars through. Those races set the precedent. You cant just interpret a rule on a day thats out of whack and against numerous other races and the history of the sport.

@@Kevinschart It's hilarious, and two faced, that you are accusing them of playing "lawyer games" when Mercedes brought a literal lawyer to the track.

I actually think another way around. Maybe there are too many rules? A book spezifying all possible scenarios seems very big. Maybe fewer rules and more power given to competent judges (seeing the issue/case from a racing point of view with a bigger whole in mind) would result in better racing on the track and fewer debates?

Did you not watch the video? The explanation is pretty damn clear

To be fair that’s not me having a go^ I understand some rules and their interpretation can be confusing. Hope you’re enjoying F1 and great job for getting into it. Been watching every race since I was 8 (now 27) and it’s the best sport 👌🏼

There are clear rules. How ever they always, have something to cover themselves like 15.3 that says race director has overirding control. Which is basically a jail free card for not following their own regulations.

You’re bang on. The crowding a car off track is very ambiguous, and will always be debatable. But the safety car rules are black and white and clear as day. They broke multiple regulations with that safety car, and IMO is total BS what they did.

@@ethandickpic4205 They actually didn't break any rules, get over it. The rules do not state all lapped cars, it states any. It is not the first time in an FIA sanctioned race that not all cars have been allowed to unlap themselves. Once the safety car is coming in this lap sign is displayed it means this lap and not the next, and it overrides the 1 lap rule. If you think the racing director is one-sided and wanted Red Bull to win you must have your hand over your eyes and ears, considering most of the calls this year have not gone Redbulls way, but Mercedes. There was no reason to Red Flag the race because the f1 cars were still able to safely lap behind the safety car. Think it's unfair, I think exceeding the number of times you can change a Power Unit even though there was no damage to the Power Unit is unfair when you know that the increase in power will win you the race or give your driver the advantage despite the penalty. I also think that any F1 driver that can't avoid a slowing car that is travelling down a straight deserves a closer look at too if you are going to penalize a driver for "brake checking". I think allowing a car a 3 second + advantage after shortcutting a corner is unfair. I don't even support Redbull and I can think of quite a few incidents this year that have definitely gone Mercedes way. Face it, if it was the other way around you would not even be commenting.

That is their new directive. They want to make good money and get good ratings.

They made a mistake by letting all lapped cars stuck behind. If they were unlapped right from the start, it wouldn't end up as it is

@@hectornecromancer5308they couldn’t. The crash needed to be completely cleaned

@@juangomez1704 it's already clear to let the overlapped cars to unlap when he decided not to do it

​@@hectornecromancer5308no the track was only clear on lap 57 if I'm right so what really should have happened is that all the lapped cars would be let through then the race would have ended on the safety car on the last lap but masi decided for the race to be more entertaining instead of following the rules

The merc team will do anything to win is that so fair ???????????

@@allanhughes7859 Bro, that’s every team on the grid.

Cope

@@allanhughes7859 Yeah thats pretty much fair... Every Team in F1 would do the same with this high stakes on the line.

Top, top comment.

Lets hope this is the end.

Completely agree!

truth! when you see verstappen take the corner and then the camera pans and theres lewis just accelerating off in the distance with no penalty

Yep, I DO think F1 was clearly making decisions based on what would make things most exciting. Red Bull had an enormous lead going into Silverstone and Mercedes were allowed to wreck the RB in back-to-back races with the strongest penalty going to Max who had to replace his engine afterward. He lost the huge lead that he earned and Lewis got just a 10 second penalty for sending Max to the hospital.

I HATE TO SAY IT,,, BUT AN EIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR A BLACK GUY , MORE THEN MICHAEL SCHUMACHER THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD NEVER LET THAT BE THIS IS WHY MICHAEL MASSEY WAS REALLY BROUGHT IN IN THE FIRST PLACE AND ALL OF THE FUNNY LITTLE RULE CHANGES BEGIN.

Well what about Hamilton fucking cutting the track lap 1

@@wierdtromebonekid I guess you're referring to Lewis once again avoiding the Maxident. Max bottled the start, got desperate and can count himself lucky that Lewis saw that coming. If Lewis had stayed on track, Max would have taken them both out and (as he had been warned) he would have had points deducted. Lewis really saved Max's championship in that moment.

^ This right here. If he had done the opposite and not removed the lapped cars, he would have been accused of fixing it in fav of Merc.

@@wierdtromebonekid He had no way to go after Max kamikaze'd in the inside. But let's pls go down the 'what aboutism' road.

@@doxydoxdelamanca9902 Exactly, Merc just bet on that and did not take the chance Red bull went for. If they would have pitted, they would have been on softs aswell and have their last lap. But mercedes TEAM chose not to. Easy as that. That lapped cars can pass is just normal

Honestly am on masi on this one, toto literally begged so the race ends behind the safety car, the " this is Motorsports, we want car race" will forever be a line of a true racing fan.

@@raza9tixx well, rules are rules, you cannot break the rules just for entertainment even if it will ruin all the hard work of somebody.

@@raza9tixx If Cristiano's or Messi's team is denied an obvious penalty in the stoppage time which can decide the result of the match in a final and then they lost out on the penalty shootout just for the "entertainment reason", will you be happy with it?

Missing the first corner in the last lap in Baku is definitely a reason to not give Hamilton a 10/10. This loss of 25 (or 18) points cost him a lot

@@TriNguyen-ft2nl Masi has the right to overrule some rules as mentioned in the video.

Are you looking at all the rules, or just the one being protested by M-B?

He can't be a deserving champion if he needed help from race control with a last min rule change

Exactly Masi and his team created a big mess this year with so many penalties imposed or not imposed

Money talks

They did it plenty of times in favor of the Mercs. Glad Max had his luck today.

I would like that too. Shit happens.

*As a Lewis' fanboi..Edit your comment LOL

Cry about it :)

100% agree. What a shame for the fans. FIA dropped the ball.

Agreed!

Bang on!

It was decided by Red Bull putting soft tires on Verstappen.

​@@VNeto94 agreed mare 🤣🤣🤣

I totally agree, it was the first thing that came to my mind when I was watching the race: RED FLAG!!! With so few laps remaining you want to maximize the amount of racing laps.

However, you do run the risk of having another crash on the restart, and with so few laps to go, what then ? FIA did make the right choice imo and worked with what they had, it's just that Max got lucky, cause the Merc was definitely faster, but yeah.

I only thought the same thing after the race finished. It would have been the most fair thing to give the two a few laps to shoot it out on fresh tires. I mean, it's not really a fair fight between new softs and 40+ lap hards. Maybe if they they didn't allow the cars to pass, that could have been fair.

@@sabrinaEvo Mercedes strategy failed because they didn't want to take any risks pitting at any stage of the race other than when he's far ahead.

Better to follow Indycar’s lead in letting the race finish under yellow if the race is going to finish under yellow. Contrived finishes slowly delegitimize the sport, and occasionally, you just get burned.

Horner did not pressure. Micheal Massi just wanted to stage a show. And they probably won't strip verstappen of his title, it's just to much of a controversy. It opens the door to the contest of SOOO many bad decisions by the FIA that advantaged Mercedes

The appeal would never hold up in court. The rules are too vague to form a conclusion either way.

@@guteng9884 I mean telling the race director "We only need one racing lap" and the race director subsequently reversing his decision to comply certainly sounds like pressure to me. Whether it had an influence in the decision is another matter, but it's still pressure.

" yes that's true BUT for safety purposes". Where does it say that in the regulations? It doesn't. You[re making that up. Even if the race had been continued on a different path it's impossible to guess what would have or could have happened. I'm not saying i'm a big time lawyer. But as someone with a law degree I don't see how they can take the championship title away from him.

Max will keep the title because it’s not his fault - why should red bull be punished for FIA stupidity. It should of been Lewis’s title, but you can’t punish the drivers for just doing their jobs

Because Masi decided before the race that he will not consider a red flag

@@frankym8621 that’s silly to be honest red flags are used for the safety of track staff and the drivers he’s really pulling shit if he said he won’t do a red flag.

Red flags are usually reserved either for bad weather or moments where the safety crew needs to be on track for a longer than usual period of time, like in Jeddah for example, where they had to fix a barrier. All they had to do was remove a car from the way and the track was cleared promptly, so a red flag would have been just too much. Also, if we take into account that Lewis got a massive advantage by cutting a huge corner without even getting called out for it, like Max in Jeddah or Antonio in Texas, it means that Lewis' advantage wasn't all clean to begin with. It's a shame because none of the drivers were at fault in anything, it's just that the FIA is too inconsistent

The race can't be restarted when 75% is completed

@@JohnnyEMatos so you agree with masi’s decision concerning the end of the race but you don’t agree with the decision that it was Lewis’s corner and he was ahead of max into the apex and was essentially forced off track. How typical of a Red Bull fan.

Your right

Masi has the final say on everything safety car related, according to FIA rules.

I agree. He's done injustices to both teams.

Lewis deserves better race engineer.

The game changed OG. Masi saw an opportunity to give the fans what they wanted and took it. Entertainment over integrity..

Who wants to see a drivers championship decided by a safety car? I know I dont

@@josephprocopio8423 much better than the farce we got presented today, because the procedure is something set in stone yet Masi wanted to have fun giving drama to the netflix crew

@@furstfr Without a doubt. Did you see Ted asking Jacky Stewart who will win it yesterday? He said Max, then added "we need a change".

@@josephprocopio8423 doesnt matter who wants to see it...what matters is that the FIA rules werent followed by the FIA itself.

Not as tainted as the championship win Lewis got in 2008. I'm sorry to tell you this man, but Verstappen's performance considering the situation and the slower car was objectively superior to Lewis'. Lewis may have deserved the race, but not the title. Max's title is barely tainted when you look at how Senna, Hamilton, and Schumacher got some of theirs.

@@Saintwolvinnsorry to tell you this man, but Verstappen was very crash happy with other cars throughout 2021, noticeably Saudi Arabia. So yes, tainted Championship for sure. ‘22 and ‘23 are some of the most dominant championships any one driver has one, so there’s that

@@Saintwolvinn I find it amazing that the last resort argument is always 2008. Please enlight me on how a FIA decision decided the 2008 interlagos gp. 21 AD was a collosal failure of racing rules. 08' was a overtake on the last lap. And even if you mention the whole renault scandal, that still makes AD 21 a scandal too, maybe even worse. It's a shame that people can't recongnize a day light robbery in front of them. And before anyone calls me a ham fan, I've been watching this sport longer that most of are alive, trust me. And on top of that Im a brazillian Ferrari fan, I cried on 08', but still doesnt mean I think less of ham first chip, in contrast we have a a decider that was admittedly manipulated by the FIA during the race. Make it make sense

@@Saintwolvinn Never understood the 'Max deserved the title over Lewis' angle. They came in to the last race having had a basically completely even season. Ultimately, they both deserved a *chance* to win the title by winning the final race. If you accept Lewis deserved the race, you effectively accept that he deserved the title.

​@@tbicks2822if max finished second at silverstone or won baku he would ve won it easily by just finishing second

And we know which team bosses he was manipulated by. Horner and Wheatley, then he even quoted one of them “we went car racing toto” Masi is a complete and utter fool.

@@oldschool8330 Toto as well. And tbh, Horner wouldn't play the same game had Toto not doing it too

Most of his decisions favored Lewis. You weren’t crying then, were you??

LMC desperate to crack the US motorsports market... Lewis driving with Black Lives Matter painted on his helmet... probably just coincidence...

That wouldn't surprise me, that whole confusion between no cars allowed to overtake the safety car/some cars allowed to overtake the safety car looks very like "something" was putting pressure on Masi to have a final mano a mano between Max and Lewis.

Michael Masi isn’t involved in the decision making around penalties and stuff. Firing him would be like shooting the messenger

Drive to Survive multiplied F1’s viewership. Do with that what you will.

@@cheesyriceo4 Hopefully that makes up for the 2 decade+ fans they are going to lose with this reality tv bullshit.

When was a driver that gained an advantage illegally allowed to keep his place? The calls were all bs, just sucks for the Hamilton fans that they got the short straw in the end

@@Maravic0513 the team principals shouldnt be allowed to talk to the race director

@@aadi1806 "Please no safety car"

Lewis would still have lost. What is your point? The only thing that mattered was for VER to close the gap with HAM. And this is happening in any possible scenario after a yellow flag. Blame it on Latiffi if you want.

@@bananabatsy3708 how would Lewis have lost? Mate he was faster than verstappen on old softs when he was on new ones? If the cars hadn’t been allowed to unlap themselves Hamilton would have won

@@peter3334floyd here we go. Silverstone hás nothing to do with this shit. They were racing and collided. Here it was a fucking shit show made by FIA. It feels like a movie, i want to watch a sport.

Cry😂 nobody cares

Bye.

F1 honestly lost its taste for good, now its just watching cars run around the track nothing spectacular

True not to mention that the wall is pretty much right on the side of the track and there are no cranes on the outside of the wall in the spot where Latifi crashed, so it would have likely been the safest thing for them to immediately call a red flag

How about telling Merc to not easily dismissed Lewis request for box.

This “fair start” y’all are talking about is really none of race control’s business. When to change tyres is completely up to you as long as you use at least two different compounds. It’s all part of the race.

They had completed more than 90% of the race, that could have triggered an immediate end to the race. Was my thought as well until that detail. In short, there was no good resolution to the situation and would have been controversial anyways.

@@arapaimagold8088 Lewis had more to lose as he would have lost the lead and with safety car so close to the end of the race there was no guarantee that the race would have resumed with only 4 laps to go (with safety cars taking an average of 3-4 laps to resolve). Had Lewis pitted, Max would have done the opposite and might have won under the safety car). Leading the race is a lose-lose in terms of strategy options, at least when those options are considered in real time.

Imo the weaknesses aren‘t in the sporting regulations, but in the members of the FIA (Masi plays a big part in this). The rules are there to prevent such things from happening, but then there is Masi who just bends the rules the way he wants, to get better entertainment. F1 has to decide whether they want to be a sport for the purpose of sport or for the purpose of entertainment, witch are two very different things. If the first thing should apply to F1, they should probably consider another racing direcor or come up wirh a different solution, like two race direktors or just a bigger Team to prevent such debacles from happening.

@@makeouthill6234 completely agree

@@makeouthill6234 boohoooo cry some more little crybaby

@@makeouthill6234 i agree that Masi has caused trouble, and over the season has created a situation where a win on either side could easily be labeled illegitimate, all in the name of tainted entertainment. But I think its hard now to say the FIA rules don't need to be updated. I think the way race safety precautions create unfair scenarios in key moments, where the teams benefit based on luck and bad faith officiating with Masi at the helm and lose their progress from real efforts is a sign the FIA needs to massively revise the way GPs are run in order to save the sport from itself. I'd like to see a rule where any safety car in the last 10% of the race is automatically red flagged, so that everyone benefits equally, and teams cant have their weekends saved or ruined by high risk pit decisions.

I thought one aspect for the changes to cars for next year is 'competitive' racing, which after this season does NOT look promising for the Stewards and the Sport! When I turn on to watch an F1 race I expect to see the best in car technoogy and the skill of top drivers, NOT questions on the rules that influence lots of races. For Abu Dhabi, of course appeals have to reference Rules, HOW CAN IT BE THAT any driver can go under a Safety Car in for FRESH tires and return WITHOUT any grid penalty which is what Max got. Yet for 50 plus laps Max was following Lewis who even Red Bull admitted clearly had a good car AND with Lewis having a good lead in time over Max for 50 laps before the Safty Car came out? There's something VERY fundamentally wrong in F1, with all respecct to Max's driving style, and it's not the F1 cars or the F1 drivers. Or lets just give the Stewards a race number, and line them up on the start grid with the other drivers!!!!

Max got the short end of the stick all season. Its only fair it balances out.

​@@Roeland666 It is not the job of the Stewarts to "balance things out" in the last lap of the last race by bending the rules for the sake of the show. I'm a diehard McLaren fan, and I won't root for other teams, but it was very easy to see that Lewis was absolutely dominant for 57 laps, and the only reason he lost the race was because the Stewarts and Race director intervention, that is not fair.

@Jdog cope harder

Given that Mercedes had a lot of race decisions going their way on top of Lewis having an incredibly fast car, Verstappen deservedly won the title.

@Jdog Yeah, Hamilton will win more 4 championships in a row

Does not happen in NBA and nfl. No comparison to this

In the NBA and NFL it’s just bad calls. At least there they try and hide the fact that they are favouring another side. It’s not even close to what happened in Abu Dhabi

@@mortystraphouse5077 yes it does happen in the NBA. You must be young.

@@f3p so what was the decision on lap 1 then? That CLEARLY favoured Mercedes. Even the British commentators said so. What about silverstone? Hungary? That’s a +50 point swing in Hamilton’s favour. The reality is the right man won the championship, farce or not.

@@mortystraphouse5077 you are kidding right?

Seriously man, the FIA is pretty much a joke.

@@stephenbarrosse831 i think u should shut up first and watch the race in a more closely depth and also read the FIA rule articles.

Fans demand racing and it is entertainment. I don't want to watch a parade every weekend.

It didn't make a difference. Even if all lapped cars had unlapes themselves the result would have been same. Only 3 of the 8 lapped cars stayed put. They could have unlapped themselves quickly.

Ranjit Singh There wouldn’t have been any laps left, all lapped cars must un lap themselve and the safety cars comes in the following lap

Imagine being a lap down then finishing P2 like in Imola for Hamilton. All season has been good and bad luck calls for both drivers.

rigged!

Ooh just like Baku

@@gianni_schicchi exactly, this wasn’t the only race with controversy. Imola, Silverstone, Hungary, the luck on those days was COMPLETELY on Hamilton’s side. Why did people not make such a fuss about Silverstone where Hamilton destroyed Max’s car, costing him new parts and a new engine and what’s worse, they gave him pretty much no penalty and brought out a red flag so he could change his front wing that day... Verstappen deserved this championship, this final race was not the only race where controversial stewarding decisions took place! Oh and by the way, Mercedes could have pitted, like Red Bull did. But they chose not to because they were scared to try and overtake Max! I’m not a fan of either driver by the way, just think Verstappen deserved it a bit more this season hehe

@@qg1235 he did not deserve this championship. He did not deserve this win. The faster and better driver should have won...that was Lewis.

Dude I didn’t even think about that.

Excellent point

That is a big question why weren't 3rd and 4th allowed to fight for 2nd and 3rd for instance? Cherry picking people who could unlap themselves is just 100% farce.

Like Sainz would even have a chance to fight Max. Its like saying a Back marker and Lewis will Battle it out. Ferrari is not a front marker team this year. They're top mid team

@@IIGrayfoxII so you are saying other teams shouldnt be given the same in race rules as mercedes and rb?

💯💯

Problem with Gravel Pits is that if your the one being pushed off, then your race is ended and the other guy gets a 5/10 second penality.

@@darrenjackson813 it means you will hit the brake pedal, yield the position, and fight again next corner.

@@TheXtrafresh but then its still allowing other drivers to use "you yield or you crash" even if by right it was their corner. Or you have Abu Dhabi lap 1. If Lewis can't use the run off the one place he's going is into the side of max.

@@darrenjackson813 nonsense, he has a brake pedal. The "yield or crash" thing is called aggressive driving, and it makes the sport exciting. Maybe look at some Senna tapes as a reference.

@@TheXtrafresh no but that warrants unfair and dirty driving, which is not wanted either, there is a difference between aggresive and dirty, two examples, spain and lap 1 abu dhabi. Spain max was perfectly alongside, didnt run deep or anything like that, perfect divebomb which lewis had to back out on, was aggresive but fair. Abu Dhabi, he dives it and he goes way too deep, he actually nearly went past the white lines if you look closely, at that point where is lewis meant to go, if he kept turning they would crash, and secondly hamilton took the normal racing line, there was no need to defend from verstappen if he is that far back, and also there are other cars which make manoeuvres like verstappen did but they do it a lot cleaner compared to his

Fuel.

Great idea actually.

You have a reasonable and sensible solution so you must be wrong -fia

Another option is that allow the order to shuffle to its respective position during the safety car. It doesn’t make sense why max or Lewis or any driver has to stay behind Blue flagged cars. However the message wasn’t clear yesterday and whatever masi and the fia did was just too messy

If next year the situation is reversed, and theyve changed the rules to what you suggest, youll be whining anyway.

couldnt agree more

I agree with your points, but regarding the Latifi crash not getting red flagged, Kimi had an almost identical crash in FP3 and Masi was asked then if the session would get red flagged should a similar incident happen during the race to which he replied no

Well said.

Did you hear the reaction of Alonso on the SC? Max should've been 2 cars in front of him. Your Idol wanted them to race. and even if the lapped cars should have passed, it should have happened way earlier, that is also why Alonso was laughing.

I agree with all of you well said, if all the safty cars had lapped the leader, then even verstapen would have been feeling the heat from number 3 and 4 and would not have been able to make that over take as he would have been attacking and defending.

I'm more angry than Lewis lol

I'm a max fan and I agree with these changes. It allows too much "luck" to decide key parts of a race. I'm ok with some luck in the draw, but the red flag tire changes and end of race safety cars really mess up an entire race of well played strategy with a coin flip. Doesn't seem fair to anyone involved. That being said, Max had a lot of losses in the coin flips this season too, so I think this season ended with the better driver/team strategy overall. Max had a DNF more than Lewis and it's debatable who's fault that was, it was not easy for Max to be tied, let alone win by the end.

Why change the rules if rules can be ignored completely at Massis will?

When behind the SC, laps are not counted. Now you can say Vehicles are fuelled to X How about we bring back refuelling?

@@panagiotisvitas4697 The problem with the rules as they are right now is there's too much wiggle room on what the race director can do, particularly in situations like this. The rules need to be incredibly prescriptive at this point, because F1 cannot afford to have another season more or less ruined what was shaping up to be an incredible season.

You forgot to add if Lewis is winning all the other teams are not allowed to pass him. Thankfully this season is over, hopefully, all the crybaby fans decide to never watch F1 again or comment on it. I don't care what team they are fans of.

You only red flag if the track is unsafe, not to setup a showdown.

@@nickmullen2830 he did intervene to set up a show down. Then intervene in a way that is fair to both teams. That's my point.

@@nickmullen2830 I was thinking it would normally have been inappropriate, but given the scenario that played out, all other decisions heavily favoured one driver or another. If the justification is that the race direction has discretion, then that might be the type of discretion he should have used.

@@jt80995 he didn't tell Mercedes not to pit Lewis. It's not the fias job to fix it for them. Mercedes gambled wrong. That's racing. Just ask lando

The hundreds of safety car situations over the years set the precedent of how parties should have acted and have historically affected numerous results but thats always been the luck of the draw and within the rules of the sport. To change the rules for one race is race fixing and incompetence.

our tears don't matter and they won't be remembered, just be happy we got to see a good race Darth.

The stewards are not FIA employee. They are local authorities specific for every track. If you want to race on that track you have to respect their rules.

MotoGP rules are really not necessary anyway, do something off the rules someone is in the wall or off the bike.

Respect the rules like not overtacking the defacto safety car???????? Just admit it your tired of the better driver Lewis winning.

They are just very inconsistent in their application of the rules. It was ok for verstappan in Brazil but not last week ? That’s my only issue be consistent.

@@terrell2864 If we are being honest Mercedes has benefited a lot of shaddy decisions all year, including not penalyzing Hamilton for an illegal overlap in lap 1..

Their should be a drivers meeting to agree on the rules using previous incidents and resulting judgements over the last 3 or more seasons to decide what was got right and what was got wrong and use that as a basis for rewriting the rules to end any future inconsistencies they should have a written and video based template to refer too.

IT was all staged

I agree. This situation, where Horner or Wolff are allowed to pick up any headset and just scream at race director, is embarrassing and shouldn't be allowed.

>this season put the dazzle back into the sport Really? Seeing piss poor racecraft and the dirtiest driver in the last 10 years winning a championship before learning how to actually race people? I couldn't feel more opposite.

@Ponfi Verstappen should have had his points deducted for Brazil. The FIA fiddled with their rules in Abu Dhabi to ensure the young white dude who would kill his grandma to win a race, won that race. Hamilton had it sewn up until the fia cheated.

“Any” cars does not mean “all” cars. Case closed.

They need to get rid of the teams being able to speak with the race director during the race

@@BK-uy9nj while that is true I feel as if the Race stewards really wanted a “Race” till the end they could of red flagged the session where both drivers could of gone in and got new soft tires and had a race restart with a 5 lap sprint for the title decider, that would of been the most fair thing to do in that situation and also would of stayed within in the rules without all this controversy, we would of got a proper title fight between the 2 leaders, pitting Hamilton (with 50 lap old tires) against Verstappen (new soft tires) with 1 lap to go wasn’t in my opinion Fair at all, they wanted a Race Finale so make it fair for both drivers not just 1, Max Deserved the championship, but this race was Hamilton’s from the start and as a Fan of F1 for many years it’s really hard not to feel some type of way when the “Racing aspect” of F1 isn’t in the drivers hands, it should always come down to the ones on track, not off of it

@@dantekandasamy37 I agree it would be great to see the two drivers on same tyre compound battling. But fair, what is fair. Fair is giving both teams the opportunity to switch tyres. The FIA did that, Mercedes strategists chose not to pit Lewis, Mercedes strategists told him to stay out as they didn't want to lose track position. Every team, every car had the option to pit. So the FIA did not pit Lewis on old hards against Max on new softs, Mercedes did. It was a costly error, but an error nonetheless.

@@milkshakemuncher True!! But what I meant by that is the way the Stewards are justifying their actions is by saying they wanted a “Fair Race for the title decider for both drivers” , it’s hard to see how it was fair for Hamilton as a driver where he had no say in whether he can come into the pit for new tires or not, so to make it fait to the “Drivers” they should of red flagged the session, that’s why I think it wasn’t fair as it was out of Hamilton’s control and he did everything right today but luck just wasn’t there for him, that’s why In my opinion if the Stewards really wanted a Fair Race for both respective drivers give Hamilton (not Mercedes) and Verstappen (not Redbull) both a fighting chance to claim their respective Drivers Championship, in terms of that I Feel the Stewards could of done more at the end of the race to make it Fair for everyone, While Yes Mercedes should of pitted Hamilton, it wasn’t Hamilton’s Fault, so it least give him as a driver a fighting chance, that’s why I say it’s hard not to feel disappointed when the race win isn’t up to the drivers but by outside forces

Thank you for your unbiased statement. I wish all fans would do the same.. Up to me both drivers deserve the title. Both have had lucky and not so lucky days. This day Max was the lucky one.

“Any” cars does not mean “all” cars. Case closed. Max wins based on rules. Mercedes misinterpreted the fucking rules and were denied.

Same, I believe the only problems that we have this season is just inconsistency by the stewards. It's a shame these newer fans just keep throwing their anger towards the drivers every time it doesn't gone their teams way instead of Masi's poor management.

Exactly my view too. Also, haven't really seen such inconsistencies in the last 13 years of me watching f1

Great stuff to hear from a level headed Lewis/Max fan. Its been a fantastic season to watch but the extreme positions of the Lewis/Max ultras has made decent interactions between racing fans near impossible. Good luck for next season man.

Both pit stops by Max were no brainers, not really a masterclass of tactics. He only lost 12 seconds under the VSC stop and it was a free put stop under the SC.

1st off, the move in Silverstone.. The tone was set way before and even previous season. Look at France, very similar move from Max and Lewis backed out. It was a Max move on Max, and unlike other drivers he doesn't back out and that's why the crash happened (although Lewis was at fault) If it was Max on the inside most others would of backed out. 2nd, not really a masterclass. What's RB got to lose by pitting? They didn't have the pace to catch Lewis so the obvious thing was for them to pit. They pit and the safety car stays out, they stay 2nd, or the safety car comes in and they can race it out for 1st. Unfourtunatly for Lewis, if he goes in, Max stays out and takes track position and if the restart process is followed to the letter then he's given position to Max. It's been a great championship, we've had plenty of incidents, crashes, tyre failures etc.. Both drivers deserve to be champion. How ever it's a shame it's essentially been decided this way. At end of the day Masi, for the first in his career has decided to restart a SC car this way (you even need to look at Eiffel GP 2020 and his comments there) We wanted it settled on track, but by not following a regulation that Masi always has, and has often quoted, it's essentially handing the victory to one driver.

@@MylesHSG Exactly! Especially the last one. Red Bull had nothing to lose at that point, whereas Mercedes had everything to lose if they brought Hamilton in, relinquishing the lead and potentially handing Max the championship with the race ending under safety car conditions. That scenario is worse than how it actually played out.

@@radioflyer985 the only risk Max had with that stop was getting behind back markers, but Masi sorted that out for him.

There was no way that the race was gone ended behind safety car. Cause both teams agreed for the race to finished on track. So Merc should have pit.

So if Latifi didn’t crash, and Lewis won, the racing would decide the championship. Once Latifi crashed, and his car was safely cleared with one lap left, what did you think would’ve been correct??

@@blakebarone1809 Safety car until end of last lap. Alternatively they could have just suspended the race (red flag) and then restarted, which would have been easy, simple and fair.

@@playerone6995 I thought it should have being red flagged but if the track is clear why tf is the safety car gonna stay out to the conclusion of the last race of the season....like wtf

@@jordanfrancis129 Bc you have to follow the rules and not make your own up to get an artificial battle.

@@blakebarone1809 should of followed the rules and not let 5 car's unlap them self's. Or just finished under safety car. Now we got merc going to court in France and Ross Brawn f1 managing director has also called to have a meeting with masi and is considering over turning masi. Taking back the race 3 laps and passing the win to Mercedes

They’ve been dealing with this circus for a very long time now😂

@@CITRUS-- I'd go with shower of c*nts but am sure your description is much closer to how the Hamilton family would conduct themselves in public 😂

he still has his 7 world championships ,knighthood and hundreds of millions of dollars so he is going to be ok.

Like that time he said he was going to sell all of his petrol cars due to his concerns about climate change and was then spotted a year later still driving one. The guy is class personified.

I agree. I was surprised to see him congratulate Max as he did. Toto, on the other hand, was nowhere to be found - not even for interviews.

@Keichi Tsutsiya I get it, you're glad it happened to the guy you don't like. But try to think about the bigger picture. Shit like this can happen to any driver if it's allowed to continue, even the ones who you happen be a fan of.

Couldn't be summed up in better words

@@AngryPrawn serious question, if it could happen to any other driver, wouldn’t that make it fair?

The fact is, if Hamilton didnt punt of Verstappen, if Bottas didnt punt of Verstappen. Verstappen would have won a couple of races ago. The fact that competitors arent punished enough for eliminating their competitors shouldnt be checked as well. It was Mercedes their mistake not to give Hamilton new tyres.

@@tptviper just because something unfair can happen to anyone, doesn't make it fair

He forgot about Ocon last weekend. His situational awareness with pressure leaves a lot to be desired.

And Honer kept bitching about Toto lobbying the officials... Smh

Yeah, and Sainz, who finished P3 in the end, had lapped cars in front of him who weren't allowed to unlap themselves, so it meant he couldn't also challenge Verstappen or Hamilton at the front to potentially get a win himself!

It had 0 impact on the championship standings for Ricciardo who finished 44 points behind Leclerc. Neither did it impact the championship standing of Stroll or Schumacher by not having them unlap themselves or Sainz championship standing. Let's be honest, a lot of people that take issue with the 5 cars unlaping themselves so they don't get in the way of the championship fight would have had no issue with it if the shoe was on the other foot. The only difference is that Horner didn't roll up with a fucking lawyer altough they would have needed one after Hamilton did not get a deserved reprimand for his free practice antics and got away with overtaking off track and cutting a substantial part of the track.

100%. It was purely done for entertainment and caving under pressure by RB. Max did not win a championship today with his driving but by being handed the title by Masi. As a Dutchman, I love Max, but this finale was disastrous and undeserved.

Well he won a couple by luck. He should be class with 7 in his pocket. Things can’t always go your way. But yet he whines all the time in races. While he is the best, his whining does not show class.

Can’t say the same thing about Max!

I imagine Hamilton's family had come to terms with lewis not winning this year a while ago, before Silverstone, Hungary and Baku, verstappen was apsolutely running away with the title, mercedes had planned to stop development on the car, in the back of Lewis' mind this was not his title to win, a streak of bad luck for verstappen, pretty good consistent driving from lewis and the continued development of the car put him back into the battle.

Yeah, it was as classy a response as you can hope for in that situation. Really shows how much he's grown since entering F1.

@@jesuslozano508 He gets to be whiny baby this year because he didn't have a cup yet. Now he has, and now he can't. Let's see if the attitude persist next season.

Safety issue

And there was Silverstone and Hungary!

Good point , supporting even more how he is a puppet of the commercial outcomes of liberty media

How about two completely different situations ?

Completely different situation and I think couldn’t be more opposite

What most people have been lead to believe is that the Race Director, Michael Masi, had overriding authority on the safety car, and how it is used. This is incorrect. Michael Masi as the Race Director, doesn't have overriding authority on ANY of the F1 rules or procedures written out by the FIA. His sole purpose is to ensure that these F1 rules & procedures (that are laid out by the FIA) are implement 100% correctly and how the FIA intended. That is his only job. Now going back to Abu DHabi 2021, RedBull was in communication with Michael Masi trying to convince him that he can interpret/change these rules differently to how they are written, so that 1 final lap could go ahead. Michael Masi's job is again NOT to interpret/change the F1 rules laid out by the FIA, he knew exactly how the safety car procedure was meant to be applied. But he decided to change this to RedBulls demands. By him changing the procedure of the safety car ( and the lapped cars) differently to how the FIA set them out, Michael Masi ensured that only 1 driver from 1 team had a chance to go for the win. Every other team was left hanging out to dry. By changing the FIA rules, exactly how RedBull instructed him to do so, he "fixed" the outcome of the race by only giving RedBull the chance of winning.

Bec they will, that decision at the end it was laughable

Because Toto is an entitled whiner.

@@yt.personal.identification Sorry but the only one entitled is Red Bull and everyone in the team. Always have been since they fell off the top and have whined and cried over and over again about leaving the sport if they don't get changes they want.

Will go to CAS, could take 10 months

Even if they go the CAS route, best outcome for Mercedes is the result is wiped, giving Max the championship regardless. So it won't really matter anyway.

As you say it’s not the drivers or teams fault which is unfair on them. But the FIA and race director can’t just pick and choose what rules to enforce or manipulate them to fit the situation. Soo bad 🤦🏻‍♂️

If Lewis had changed tyres and was behind max they would have finished behind the safety car FIA agenda at play Masi playing god again should be interesting when it goes to court

I'm not so sure why Mercedes were so fixated on track position, the data must have told them that fresh tyres were far more important. Clearly they didn't back themselves to get the job done if Max stayed out and Lewis pitted, but Max passed him easily in the end and it was clear Mercedes made the wrong call. I think Toto is probably as angry with himself as he is Masi.

@@njclondon2009 If Merc pitted and gave up track position, RB would not have pitted a second time for softs and would have taken the lead. In this scenario, would Massi have allowed the race to finish under SC? We'll never know but the fact that the rules were bent to give Max a clear advantage indicates there was a real bias and a desire for Max to win from the FIA. Either way if Merc would have pitted and the race had finished under a SC (which was a real possibility regardless of bias, it would have only been a case of it taking another minute or so to clear latifi's car), it would be considered one of the biggest own goals in F1 history

@@njclondon2009 Track position is basically everything against Verstappen. Look at how he defends and overtakes, its always a risk for the other driver. Mercedes didn't want to risk that

Merc lost on strategy. Fortune favours the bold.

@@LG-dt7lg no they didn’t if Lewis had boxed for softs max would’ve stayed out and masi wouldn’t of rushed safety car and max would’ve won WC still or if he did put safety car in he would’ve kept lapped drivers out and gave Lewis a mountain to drive Micheal masi the fia and the f1 brand wanted a new championship and no one can ever change my mind.

You are not the only one, I witness dirty sports today as well

@@LG-dt7lg no reply? Didn’t think so

@@thatdudecandrive4252 the hounds are barking, but the train does not stop. :)

Pretty much. I've seen more consistency out of Russian game developers lmao.

Why is it not mentioned by British media how Toto was the force behind what happened today? After Spa he requested not to ever have a race ending with a safety car again and the team leaders got together with the FIA to add another asterix to the rule book. Toto is a spoiled hypocrite partly responsible for plenty of exceptions and confusion in the rulings

@@abcxyz123 Because then they would realise that it's their own fault for causing this.

Butthurt... 🤣

We'll have to way for FiA international because Mercedes is big mad, it was definitely something fishy going on as Horner complained to Masi to get the cars between Hamilton and Verstappen out of the way. Let's see what FiA international thinks, but either way I'm fully aware that they wanted Max to win, even down to bending and creating their own interpretation of the rules. Technicality is what they'll let this farce stand, watch.

Basically, Masi f**ked up by saying cars could unlap themselves during lap 57. They couldn’t do it before the Williams had been cleared for safety reason, but it was also one too few laps left for cars to unlap themselves and also have any racing once the Williams was away. By the clear and specific rules he should have simply opted for no cars to unlap themselves. Why? Because it was the only way to have any further racing. Simple, and Masi should have known this. I think he did, which is why he hadn’t instructed any cars to unlap before Horner got on the radio about lapped cars. Masi should have just told Horner that, given it’s now the penultimate lap, it’s “keep the lapped cars in place, or the race finishes under the SC.” Would Horner want Max to have maybe a one in three chance of overtaking Lewis, or none at all? Max would have needed to say behind the five lapped cars for the restart, but would have passed them during the first sector. Granted, it would have been significantly more difficult for him to catch Lewis compared to what happened, but both Mercedes and Red Bull took their calculated risks based on the rules. We would still have likely had a close run, grandstand finish to the lap, but it would have also been fair to both drivers and, crucially, within the rules. What we ended up with was both Merc and Red Bull playing their hands fairly, but Masi then completely changing the rule. It’s a textbook example of ‘moving the goalposts’. Merc then had no notice or time to react to this and it was clear to everyone from the moment the decisions were made that this would massively advantage Max. Masi should have seen this and held his hands up to his mistake, then finishing the race under the safety car, rather than relaying the ‘safety car coming in’ instruction. Firstly, that would have kept the race within the key rules and would also have been fair to all. Yes, Max would then have zero chance of the win, but had they followed the rules, Lewis would have been firm favourite to finish first anyway. Toto is absolutely right that the count back should be to the start of lap 57 when all were simply following the safety car. The second Masi told cars to unlap, the race was over as a race, per the rules. Races have finished under the safety car numerous times before and, although Masi had said they didn’t eat the finale to finish like that, he can’t just burn the rule book to accommodate it without warning. Not the best way to finish the big finale, I know, but rules are rules and this race should have been no different the second cars could start to unlap. Masi is now dishonestly twisting this general rule about the race director having full control of the safety car in a post-hoc way to cover his ass. That general rule is merely to make clear that it’s the race director who decides when and how the safety car comes in and out, no one else. Nothing starts or stops whiteout his say so. The race director makes all the decisions, but within the bounds of the options available per the rules in .12. Within these sorts of codes, a general rule never overrides a specific rule, unless there is a specific exception identified. There are none. Masi knows this. He’s just a coward who won’t admit his mistake.

@@Heathen.Deity. They could have also just left the cars in place and radioed the teams to allow max to pass on the restart since the race director has the power to negotiate with teams. That way Lewis still benefits from his dominant performance throughout the entire race with a slight lead and still allows Max a chance to race for the win.

@@MB-rp6od well… yes and no. Those five were all racing each other, so could go full blast from the restart, but would also be immediately subject to blue flags for Max and then Carlos etc. It would be like a more condensed version of when Lewis passed them under standard race conditions a lap or so before Latifi’s crash. Given they’d all have known the situation, they’d all have made sure they moved at the earliest opportunity within the blue flags regs, but trying not to hamper their own last lap battle too much. Given there was five of them, I’d guess Max would have passed all five by turn 5 at the latest. He’d then have all of sector 2 and 3 to chaise down Lewis. Lewis would have a sizeable head start, but Max would have all the pace. That would still have been the exciting final lap that Masi and supporters would have wanted.

Maybe It was but how I see it based how they view blue flags for making the backmarkers not interfere with the front runners. If people believe in the blue flags then any way possible should be OK to not let backmarkers come between the driver fighting so I see it as fair probably not how it was done but still. I dnt like blue flags cuz I feel if u that fast u shouldn't need help. But that's how it is and I'm glad it working in Max's favour with all the bad luck.

@@DreOneil too bad that’s not the rule.

@@Duuuval23 many, many rules are broken all the time. Do I need to remind you of the 5 unpunished infringements Mercedes made last weekend at Saudi Arabia? Also, according to the RULE, what happened on lap 1 was actually very harsh on Verstappen. An ambitious dive bomb that’s been ruled fair for years and years in formula 1, and Hamilton got the benefit that Verstappen DIDN’T get last weekend. Also, the race director has the ability to overrule. That’s the most important thing. Was it fair that Hamilton took out Verstappen at silverstone and went on to win the race while Verstappen got nothing? No. That’s why the rules are inherently flawed and the stewards realized that. F1 is about ENTERTAINMENT...it’s not a charity. In the end, it was overruled because the stewards realized that sometimes racing is more important than technicalities. Hamilton got lucky at about 6 or 7 races this year...the championship should’ve never come to this

Does anyone know why Perez retired? It was out of the blue

@@DreOneil Actually, that is incorrect, Blue flags are for all racers not just the lead ones. At some point Lewis had to pass those cars, to eliminate the need for Max to pass those cars isn't sporting or fair to the other drivers behind Max. Those cars that were allowed to pass, will finish ahead of the ones, that were not allowed to unlap themselves, therefore guaranteeing them not to be able to race for their position. While it is important that the lead cars not be impeded that also goes down the order. If Mercedes had known that the Lapped cars would be released they may have pitted Lewis. It was an unfair application of the rules and that is true... no one can question that. I just hope they find a just solution, because I would hate to see this go to Court. Because Max could lose the win if it did and then the World would be set on fire.

This is the most absurd ending to a championship sporting event that I've ever seen in my life. I just started following F1, and this is the supposed to have been the best season in ages. To have it end like that is so ridiculous it borders on hillarious.

@@aapm74 the race director should have had the presence of mind to red flag the race so that neither driver was essentially gifted a win as a consequence of a on track crash. Under a red flag the backmarkers and lapped cars would have been pushed to the rear and both lead cars would have started on fresh tires. Whoever wins at that point was earned without advantage to either driver by race director. And correction, Ballestre and now Masi both have the distinction of handing a world title to a driver. Congratulations to Verstappen and RedBull. Condolences to F1 fans worldwide.

> you can't change the rules on the fly They did in Bahrain, why not do it again. That race favoured Mercedes, this one didn't.

@@Obi-WanKannabis Everyone still disliked the inconsistency there. Even the drivers, including Hamilton, who benefitted from it, said it was annoying and confusing.

The rules were not changed, that decision was made inside the existing rules.

In event of accident traffic management of any kind is needed to safely restart

Cope hamtard

Masi is Horner mate in real life so don’t think he hates it mate 2+2=crashtappen win 😎

@@jgee9160 Cry more shamilton fan girl!

@@jgee9160 get a life

That’s really a great sign that he’s been objective and that many calls went both ways. It’s just a testimate to how non-one sided his calls were and provide more legitimacy to his calls.

@@jgee9160 Interesting theory, but why would the FIA have decided SO FUCKING MUCH in to Mercedes/Hamilton's favour then? Both on and off track.

1000% RedBull got beat in the big money prize and FIA wanted RB and MAX for the DC for the American audience which is just LOST. SHAM!

Indeed, some things need to be honored.

Last week discredited them. This week was all as normal.

Yeah, clearly the line was crossed at that point.

I think he said that as a joke lmal

@@szymixxf1191 Keep dreaming.

@@MaxFeken you know what i mean

There is no such thing as "deserved". Its participation trophy nonsense

Deserved? By what metric? They were even in points. Lewis was very dominant the last bit of the season, putting him dead even going into this race. Then Lewis led the entire race till it was stolen from him by a crazy and inconsistent decision. This was a farce of a race. That last lap should have never happened.

@@joshuarichard2509 Bottas taking out Verstappen in Hungary and Lewis doing the same in Silverstone are direct instances of clashes with Mercs making Verstappen score zero points (while they also score, unlike Monza). So taking those incidents out and the puncture in Baku he would have arrived 20-30 points clear of Ham to this race. So yeah, on track he deserved it more than a late season recovery by the Mercs. Of course weak stewardship all season long turned this into a farce for sure.

@@joshuarichard2509 Laps led and Pole positions.

It can't be both max didn't deserve to win the title he was simply not good enough today to catch up with Hamilton and wouldn't have won without race control not following their own rules