Ryar wrote: ↑21 Dec 2021, 19:39
mstar wrote: ↑21 Dec 2021, 19:10
LionKing wrote: ↑21 Dec 2021, 16:29
Verstappen was too fast and too good for Hamilton this year. This season was one of the best I have seen from a driver for a long time.
Well as Newey said RB should of wrapped up the title before Jeddah, as he thinks overall they had the best package. Lewis TBH kept the title fight alive and lets be honest was winning in abu dhabi on pure pace. So we can't really say Max was too fast, too good can we, as lewis came on so strong in the last 4 races?
I wonder why Lewis couldn't be that strong earlier than last 4 races?
I think it was more of a case of RedBull having very weak setups and losing their composure. Mistakes set in. Poor starts. Set-up compromises hurt top speed and race pace. Not noticing yellow flags. A whole bunch of stuff unravelled for them more than one single rival driver setting the world on fire.
I wonder if Abu Dhabi was 11th race of the season and Hungary would have been the last? How would the emotions looked?
I think emotions would be the same except the result would have been reversed.
People have short memory to forget the misfortunes and misery piled on Max by Mercedes drivers, which gave the opportunity in the first place for Lewis to have a chance till the last race. People say, Lewis was robbed in Abu Dhabi. Well, it was robbed twice from Max, just that it was mid season, people forgot.
You said the Mercedes drivers piled on mizery to Max and he was robbed?
None of the Mercedes drivers crashed into Max over the season so undue misery there.
Bahrain... Max undid himself, overtook off-track.
Silverstone... Max miscaclulated how close his rear tyre was to Lewis front tyres and turned in too early.. (if we looked on on-boards of both drivers.)
Hungary... Was a racing incident. It was a literal domino effect of Bottas hitting another car which Max didn't see sliding towards him. It's lap one so most drivers are not noticing random torpedos coming at them but maybe it could have been avoided.
Don't see the FIA robbing him in any of those situations.
I think FIA was kind to them overall. RedBull and Max did a great job that was enough to take advantage of the situations presented to them in the floor regulations the, conditions in the races and the officiating actions of the officials. They are champions now.
Interested to see Adrian's interpretation of the rules. I noticed he spent much time at the race tracks and not at the factory this year.