Formula One

BayouSAINTJoe said

That's what I was thinking as well...Lewis at this point has to know that Max is going to plow the 90 degree turns, he needs to move downtrack and force Max High...even in the 1 lap "race to the finish" Max made the same move, he just had the softies to make it stick a little better. I'm all whatever now, F1 had a bunch of paths to take this morning, they chose the worse one...none of it's on Max, he did what he had to do and Red Bull got the miracle they were looking for...its just that for as such a great season it was, the ending was garbage. This was kinda like the last season of Game of Thrones...so much promise but a BS ending.

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Yeah, I was gonna say Lewis tried cut back under Max on the late pass but there he didn't have the tires.

The irony is that Max and Red Bull honestly believed, before the Latifi incident, that FIA favored Lewis and that if there was any ambiguity, it was going to go Lewis's way. After the turn six deal on lap 1, Lewis supposedly gave back the advantage (he clearly didn't) and Max and Red Bull were disappointed but not incensed because a few things haven't gone their way (usually deserved) and they felt like that was just going to be the way it was gonna go. Accurate or not, you could hear it in their voices.

I think that Masi wanted to give everyone a race to the finish and did whatever it took to get the race restarted. Of course that effectively penalized Mercedes because it was unusual - it wasn't how they typically do it and when you're calling race strategy, you have to be able to rely on expectations.