13 Dec 2021 01:50:38
This might be the day I have fallen out of love with this sport.

A ridiculous decision from the race director to manufacture a world championship change.

If he follows the regulations as, apart from certain heavy wet races, they always have before, then the race finished behind the safety car. Instead he, let's be kind and say bent the existing rules, to deliberately go racing when one car is a sitting duck.

Then you dismiss clear evidence of an overtake under the safety car because he wasn't ahead at the safety car line. Not sure that is in the regulations but there you go.

It makes a mockery of the sport frankly.

{Ed001's Note - I am with you on this. What is the point in watching it when the result is going to be decided by the race director? If I wanted to watch fake sports, I would be watching wrestling, not motor racing.}

1.) 13 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 02:13:57
I’d go even further Ed and say what’s the point in having regulations in the first place if you allow one man to unilaterally bend them to suit his mood.

Teams rely on the rules being the rules.

This isn’t even about who won. It’s about the integrity of a sport I’ve loved since I was a boy.

Charlie Whiting must be spinning in his grave.

{Ed001's Note - exactly mate. What is to stop a team now fitting a bigger engine? Or anything they feel like doing as the rules are not there to be adhered to any more.}

2.) 13 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 10:03:36
I thinking about this earlier Ed and I would be interested on your take.

During the Mercedes protest Red Bull where allowed to attend as an interested party. Why?

Surely it isn't Red Bull's job to justify a decision made by the race director on a technical matter.

Even if you argue they have a right to be there - why didn't they then invite the other teams in? The decision to let those five cars go impacted on the cars behind them and so those teams would also have had something to say.

{Ed001's Note - you are right, it should be either all there or no one, as a technical ruling like this impacts them all in the future as well. No one now knows what the rules actually are as the race director will just make them up as he goes along to make sure that they get the right result.}