Amen to that

Too bad, he did his best with a one stop. But rules are rules, and harsh penalties are there to discourage intentional lowering the ride height.

Maybe also don’t do sprint races on bumpy tracks, or even better not at all.

Time will tell, other than the name I don’t see much impact

They really put the words in his mouth, but in the end he is agreeing with the statement.

Shameful from FOM to even allow the race to go ahead, let alone complete with so many complaining about the heat. Zonlicht for safety first.

It still irks me that people think those upset by the 2021 finale are so because Hamilton didn’t get his 8the world title. In all fairness, Red Bull made the right call to pit at the SC, and if the race would have restarted correctly would have had a fair shot at winning.

Problem is that Massi threw away the rulebook by letting only the cars between Hamilton and Verstappen overtake. If he wanted an epic last 4 lap, then red flag the race, let everyone change tires and see two of the greatest drivers ever in F1 duke it out on track.

Now we got a sour end to an epic season, with many people turned off by the sport and there will always be a footnote with Max’s first WDC.

Not anymore: https://lemm.ee/post/8250716

They issued a statement that he will not race, no mention of a replacement.

I think Hamilton didn’t expect Piastri to be there anymore.

Coulthard immediately said that it was Hamilton’s fault, but also that a more experienced driver would have recognized the place was lost and avoid the incident.

Max will be ahead by t2 and sainz and leclerc crash into eachother

One can hope they take Verstappen with them, so we have an interesting race, but don’t count on it

I don’t think they have any other valid options currently, who could they sign at the moment? RBR has made Max their number 1 to such an extend that nobody could compete in that team. So the pilots that can compete with Max seem to rather stay at their own teams, hoping that they will close the gap sooner or later and actually fight with Max. The drivers that aren’t able to compete know that it is career suicide as they will compare badly against max and moving back to a back marker team might be a very cold shower after driving a race winning car. And RBR has all but ended their driver academy, so no new talent will be flowing in from that pool either (and looking at the last 3 guys sacked by Marko, who would want to).

The only possibility seems to be Ricciardo, but he might not be back up in time.

There have been other proposals to allow each driver a limited number of DRS uses per race. The driver can choose to use it wherever they please, in attack or defense, but after x times used it is unavailable for the rest of the race.

Coupled with a penalty increasing the higher up you qualify, I think it would be great to level things out a bit.

Perez was already nursing a problem, if anyone was driving dangerously it was him.