That’s ridiculous from Max that
This getting to be a farce.
Gotta give it back surely
WTF
Sake
What a joke!
Odds on this race actually finishing?
More controversy and more stewards decisions to come.
Max making up his own track it seems
utter farce of a "race" now.
How will Karen spin that one!
Yeah, Max knows he's got nothing to lose. If he takes LH out and neither finish, the advantage is still with him. He knew LH would bail out.
Perez certainly not getting the team mate of the year award then
Safety car restart to try and avoid that again?
This track is a ruddy joke
Safety car restart to try and avoid that again?
Hopefully with Max back behind Lewis where he belongs. That overtake was horrendous.
This is not safe.
Clearly Max gained a lasting advantage but let's see what the stewards think.
This track is dangerous. No doubt about it...
This track is a ruddy joke
The sackfuls of money in the FIA bank account probably says otherwise...
Safety car restart would make sense, So I expect them to go to a grid for the viewing figures
Why are Red Bull being offered 2nd???
Ooh, radio conversation getting interesting now!
Offer to reset it to Hamilton > Verstappen > Ocon
Why are they even consulting with race control - race controls decision should be final?
Massi had forgotten about Ocon
WTF is Massi on about?
This conversation with FIA AND RB is embarrassing. Why the * is the race director making them offers?! Just apply the rules you * cowboys.
Yeah what on earth.
Farce
Standard to hand the position back, but the shit show that is this race didn’t give time for that to be considered
Think this has just blown my mind now.
Alpine FTW!
This is no longer a competitive event
Why are red bull being offered the choice of anything? Why do they get to choose?
FIA making up rules along the way. Completely absurd.
Why not just drop the keys in a pot and assign the places on the draw. Looks embarrassing now.
Feel for ocon in this
This conversation with FIA AND RB is embarrassing. Why the * is the race director making them offers?! Just apply the rules you * cowboys.
I dunno, that strikes me as a fair midpoint of "sportsmanship" between the teams, fair play and mutual agreement rather than "you will do this/that". Avoids complaints and appeals later if they can say "well, you agreed to it!"
Not sure the rules cover the exact permutations that have been going on here.
I wonder whether Alpine have an opinion on this??
This is just silly now.
Why not just abandon the race and have a game of Ker-plunk to decide the championship.
I hope Russel is ok after that shunt...
Anyway - Max should have had this championship tied up long ago. It shouldn’t be on a knife edge with 2 races to go.
He says he’s not bothered about championships, but his mistakes clearly show he is feeling the pressure.
I don't think Leclerc did anything wrong there as well, despite the commentators seeming to infer he was at fault.
So much to sort out - Max lunge downthe outside - what race control have offered is the equivalent of giving the place back
Then Bottas backing up under safety car then Hamilton backing up as well
The need to sort out the rules so its settled on the track
Its farcial and its hard to see what is fair here given so many things being done to game the safety cars / red flags
As I understand it, if the race hadn't been stopped, race control would have said "give the place back or we'll refer it to the stewards". So if Red Bull had said "no thanks" the stewards would have intervened and potentially forced them to or apply a penalty
But why offer it - there’s a rule book! Follow it! And tell teams what is happening - be better off with Del Boy in charge if this is the way ‘deals’ are done.
How long to the next red flag then?
About 5 seconds after the next restart!
Max to take Ham out on the restart!? 🤔🤔🤣🤣
I'm guessing Red Bull are banking on at least another SC by putting on mediums...
Oh god, another grid. And Max actually 3rd……. this is a farce
