Anybody watch F1?

[Daddy]

Only if you're a fan of that cunt Hamilton.

I do like him but I'd be interested to hear why you think he's a cunt

 

[huskermack]

I do like him but I'd be interested to hear why you think he's a cunt

I guess I'm not that invested.
I just don't like his style - he seems to point blame on others often instead of just manning up.
Mostly I'm just jealous of him. All of them.

 

[Daddy]

I guess I'm not that invested.
I just don't like his style - he seems to point blame on others often instead of just manning up.
Mostly I'm just jealous of him. All of them.

I'm super fuckin jealous too

 

[huskermack]

NASCAR for Democrats


(not a shot at the OP or at NASCAR, just heard it once and I've always found it to be 100% accurate)

I'm as far from being a Democrat as anyone can be - and I've become an F1 fan.
I absolutely love it.

 

[HuskerGarrett]

I'll do my best.

Two guys, Hamilton and Verstappen, were tied on points for the championship going into the final race which basically made it winner take all between the two of them.

With like 2 or 3 laps to go Hamilton was in the lead and there was wreck at the back of the pack and they went under a yellow flag and a safety car. At that time there were like 5 cars Hamilton had lapped that Verstappen hadn't lapped yet so they were in between them going into the final lap which would have made it almost impossible for Verstappen to catch Lewis on the final lap. Normally in that situation they let all of the lapped cars through and they basically reset at that starting line and give them a chance to pit if they want or just stay in the order they're in for the remained of the yellow flag/safety car. If they had stayed under the yellow flag/safety car, the race would have finished under yellow flag and as it was at the time of the crash with Hamilton in 1st and Verstappen in 2nd. If they'd chosen to do a red flag and reset, it would have been one lap, winner take all.

What they decided to do was to let the just 5 cars between Verstappen and Lewis unlap themselves and have a one lap race to the finish. So the 5 obstacles that were in the way are now out of the way for Max, and the the gap Lewis had created throughout the race was now gone and Max was right next to him. Lewis was also limping home on old tires which was slowing him down, but he would have won barring something catastrophic. And Max was on fresh tires. So Lewis was far enough ahead to make finish it on those tires but didn't stand a chance once they were side by side.

Basically a blatant and unprecedented breach of the rules by the race director to put Max right on Lewis' hip knowing that he'd beat him to the finish line, and he did.

Thanks for putting in some effort unlike @Drue629 that lazy fuck

 

[dsbigred1]

Full disclosure, I'm a fan of Lewis and I think Max is a POS and Horner is a whiny bitch. And I'm sorry but if you think that Max has gotten fucked more than he deserves, I don't know what to tell you. He's a dangerous driver who gets the benefit of the doubt because he's good.

But yea it made no sense and made for an amazing and entirely manufactured finish. Lewis was beating Max by like 17 seconds at one point.

Some of the best analogies were relating it to golf:

It's like a rules official telling Tiger who is on the 18th green at Augusta with a one shot lead on Sunday that they're going to give Bryson a free drop 8 feet from the hole for eagle because Charl Swartzel clogged a toilet in the clubhouse.

you don't have to be a fan of Lewis to think Horner is a whiny bitch. It seems that is a pretty common feeling throughout most other teams and fans.

 

[Drue629]

I'll always be a fan of Lewis and what he's accomplished but I was going for Max and Red Bull this year to dethrone Mercedes. I wish McLaren was more competitive, I love Lando and Ricardo.

 

[Alcaus]

Full disclosure, I'm a fan of Lewis and I think Max is a POS and Horner is a whiny bitch. And I'm sorry but if you think that Max has gotten fucked more than he deserves, I don't know what to tell you. He's a dangerous driver who gets the benefit of the doubt because he's good.

But yea it made no sense and made for an amazing and entirely manufactured finish. Lewis was beating Max by like 17 seconds at one point.

Some of the best analogies were relating it to golf:

It's like a rules official telling Tiger who is on the 18th green at Augusta with a one shot lead on Sunday that they're going to give Bryson a free drop 8 feet from the hole for eagle because Charl Swartzel clogged a toilet in the clubhouse.

They’re all whiny bitches in F1 tho lol

Not a big fan of Hamilton but I thought he was very classy afterward. Glad they made it a race and didn’t end during a safety car.

 

[BBTown Bomber]

Loved being at the race here in ATX.

Keep the kErnEl weird……🥸



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[Daddy]

They’re all whiny bitches in F1 tho lol

Not a big fan of Hamilton but I thought he was very classy afterward. Glad they made it a race and didn’t end during a safety car.

Yea they made it a race by not following the rules. I'm all for a good race and wouldn't have liked to see it end on a safety car. But they lost all credibility by giving Max such an enormous and unearned advantage. If anything, they should have gone to a red flag and let those who wanted to pit, pit, and then restart.

 

[herbsinator]

Yea they made it a race by not following the rules. I'm all for a good race and wouldn't have liked to see it end on a safety car. But they lost all credibility by giving Max such an enormous and unearned advantage. If anything, they should have gone to a red flag and let those who wanted to pit, pit, and then restart.

They basically followed the spirit of the rule which is to clear out the cars between the leaders. The fact that there were lapped cars behind Verstappen didn’t have an impact on the outcome at all.

 

[Alcaus]

Yea they made it a race by not following the rules. I'm all for a good race and wouldn't have liked to see it end on a safety car. But they lost all credibility by giving Max such an enormous and unearned advantage. If anything, they should have gone to a red flag and let those who wanted to pit, pit, and then restart.

Wouldn’t have cared either way. Hamilton got an advantage early on that the stewards disregarded.

Really the Mercedes car was just better. It wasn’t shaping up to be much of a race but Hamilton chose not pit to maintain position throughout the race. That was on him and his team.

 

[herbsinator]

Wouldn’t have cared either way. Hamilton got an advantage early on that the stewards disregarded.

Really the Mercedes car was just better. It wasn’t shaping up to be much of a race but Hamilton chose not pit to maintain position throughout the race. That was on him and his team.

They couldn’t pit because Verstappen would have taken track position.

 

[Alcaus]

They couldn’t pit because Verstappen would have taken track position.

Obviously, that’s the strategic part of racing.

 

[Daddy]

They basically followed the spirit of the rule which is to clear out the cars between the leaders. The fact that there were lapped cars behind Verstappen didn’t have an impact on the outcome at all.

Is there another instance where this spirit of the rule was followed? And yea the lapped cars didn't an impact on the outcome of the race for 1st and 2nd but they certainly were in play for the rest of the field. That further drives home the point that they were making decisions based on entertainment value and not competitive values.

 

[Daddy]

Wouldn’t have cared either way. Hamilton got an advantage early on that the stewards disregarded.

Really the Mercedes car was just better. It wasn’t shaping up to be much of a race but Hamilton chose not pit to maintain position throughout the race. That was on him and his team.

Max running Lewis off the track (again) and Lewis having to leave the track to avoid a collision caused by Max (again) is not the fault of Lewis.

 

[huskermack]

Max running Lewis off the track (again) and Lewis having to leave the track to avoid a collision caused by Max (again) is not the fault of Lewis.

Lewis needs to man up.

 

[Alcaus]

Max running Lewis off the track (again) and Lewis having to leave the track to avoid a collision caused by Max (again) is not the fault of Lewis.

Stewards determined he gave back the advantage even though he didn’t give back the place. It’s racing, Lewis knew Max would take the lunge inside.

Just shows the inconsistency in F1 but it is what is. I didn’t feel like Lewis got screwed.

 

[herbsinator]

Is there another instance where this spirit of the rule was followed? And yea the lapped cars didn't an impact on the outcome of the race for 1st and 2nd but they certainly were in play for the rest of the field. That further drives home the point that they were making decisions based on entertainment value and not competitive values.

There hasn’t been a situation factually similar to this in the last several years at least.