PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑13 Dec 2021, 05:04
Marty_Y wrote: ↑13 Dec 2021, 04:51
Mercedes hasn't posted anything on social media (Facebook & Twitter) about winning the constructors championship.
I can understand that they are in no mood to celebrate, if they had come to the race with the second best car or if Lewis didn't perform and made mistakes the loss would be understandable.
The W12 was the best car and Lewis drove perfectly, he and the team have been incredibly hard done by.
I can't see them getting anywhere with the appeal, I just hope that they will not decide to walk away from F1.
Lewis and Mercedes must feel robbed, I know I do as a fan.
Adrian Newey said the RedBull was the better car over the season. (and this race too).
They banked it all on track position just like Jeddah and it back-fired.
He's wrong, Red Bull's car had a narrow advantage for the first half of the season, mainly in qualification but in the races it was pretty much equal with Mercedes having the advantage of better tyre life. Mercedes dropped the ball during the first half of the season by squandering points with team and driver mistakes and misfortunes.
After the Silverstone update the W12 was clearly the better car, analysis from multiple sources show the W12 was the superior car in the second half of the season.
Lewis won three races in a row and was cruising to a fourth win that would have secured his eighth title, Red Bull and Max had no answer to his pace, even after Perez used all of his battery holding him up he pulled away again and managed to extend his lead comfortably, even when Max had a cheap pitstop for new tyres he barely matched Lewis's pace on older tyres.
The only thing that stopped Lewis from a deserved title was corruption of the rules, if the rules were applied properly he would have won.
Yes I am aware that this sounds like sour grapes from a disappointed fan but it doesn't stop it from being true, what happened was unprecedented and unacceptable.
I shared this in the race thread which I think sums up what people think about what happened.