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03 Jul 2022 23:00:40
Ed001 not sure if you have watched any of this season after what happened last year but if not treat yourself and watch the British Grand Prix.
That was some of the best racing in years.
That was what the sport should be!
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 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 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.}
05 Dec 2021 21:36:16
I wonder what type of accident it will take for Max to tone his driving down a little bit.
He's phenomenally quick but the move out of the way or we crash attitude is going to get somebody hurt one day.
{Ed001's Note - that is a good question.}
1.) 06 Dec 2021 06:24:01
Really interesting stewards decision don’t you think Ed.
Max ‘trying’ to give the position back. Both not wanting to be ahead into the DRS detection. Which they are both entitled to do given they weren’t interfering with any other cars and then it’s evidenced Max deliberately breaks again to cause the crash.
Do you think 10 seconds was fair enough?
I mean deliberately braking and it causing a crash would seem a complete no no to me.
{Ed001's Note - it is yet another soft penalty for one of the most dangerous manoeuvres possible on a race track. But it is Max and he is the poster boy so they are not going to upset the orange army by giving him a worthwhile penalty.}
22 Nov 2021 16:12:59
Everybody is really excited about this close title race and it is great to see. But I have one massive problem with it being so tight.
Let's say Max wins by less than 5 points.
Now I know you can point to specific instances all through a season to say it was won here or there and that's racing. But this season there appears to be something I still can't come to terms with.
Belgium.
When 1/2 points where awarded for a race that never happened. A result entirely manufactured by the FIA for their own purposes. Racing that day was never, ever a realistic option.
Maybe it's just me but it's been bothering me.
{Ed001's Note - agreed.}
14 Nov 2022 13:38:03
Yesterday showed Max for what he really is. A selfish, spiteful child.
Frankly given everything Checo has done for Max whatever hardon Max still has about presumably Monaco is a joke. As a two time world champion he should be beyond pettiness like that.
This is the attitude and behaviour Red Bull and Horner have allowed and enabled though so it’s their own fault.
Also - Max freely admitting he kept his foot in anyway knowing he was going to crash with Lewis. Yeah okay sure - that’s completely normal.
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.}
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.}
06 Dec 2021 06:24:01
Really interesting stewards decision don’t you think Ed.
Max ‘trying’ to give the position back. Both not wanting to be ahead into the DRS detection. Which they are both entitled to do given they weren’t interfering with any other cars and then it’s evidenced Max deliberately breaks again to cause the crash.
Do you think 10 seconds was fair enough?
I mean deliberately braking and it causing a crash would seem a complete no no to me.
{Ed001's Note - it is yet another soft penalty for one of the most dangerous manoeuvres possible on a race track. But it is Max and he is the poster boy so they are not going to upset the orange army by giving him a worthwhile penalty.}
05 Dec 2021 18:39:45
“This is my offer….”
Am I having some weird drug induced dream here or is the race director taking over the role of the stewards to reduce the impact of a potential penalty.
Absolute madness
{Ed001's Note - no, he is just trying to save the stewards having to make a ruling.}
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