FORMULA 1 ROLEX BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2021....RACE....▄▀▄▀▄▀ SPOILERS▄▀▄▀▄▀...

Did the fans pay Lewis for their tickets?

 

An honest attempt to race tomorrow would be something worth trying but no.............too hard for the Pinnacle of Motorsport and all the smart people and MONEY in it.

 

This farce deserved beer cans thrown on the track..just so folks dont forget .

 

LH is doing the usual - leveraging the fans - 'cause he feels slighted by the two laps.
Dude's as phony as the race.

 

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Nailed it.

Honestly, it’s not even the two laps and the points that were awarded. It’s the smiles and podium celebration that really piss me off. Racers have DIED trying to get on that podium and all it took was a qualifying session and two safety car laps. Really makes a mockery of the sport, in my opinion.

 

didnt even race a lap and there are winner, podium finishers and points

what utter nonsense clown show lol

 

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They must give fans their money back. One way or another……

 

F1 is now a dry weather sport only. Fact.

 

Really ? I can hardly believe that they will treat that fiasco as a "race", and attribute points to drivers following a safety car.

Is that in the rules? Wait for 3 hours, then 2 laps on the merry-go-round, and we have a winner! Well done Max ! LOL

It seems to me that the FIA isn't running the championship, but is under pressure to run "races" at any cost.

What would have been wrong in declaring a race cancelled because of adverse conditions, and refund the spectators, instead of having a dog and pony show to appease the TV channels that bought broadcasting rights?

I won't debate about the right or wrong of not starting a GP when it pours down, I am no driver, so I can't judge if the conditions were impossible or not.
There may be some legal reasons at play here, that we are not fully aware, but the name Jules Bianchi comes to mind.

I thought F1 had reached the bottom by having only 6 cars running at the US GP at Indianapolis a few years ago, but this is even worse!

 

The issue is not the points. They could add a rule that if the race cannot take place, points are awarded based on qualifying, thereby saving everyone the nonsense.

The real issue is that the race was not (really) held.

 

Yeah, I get that, but it’s the fanfare that’s truly grotesque.

 

And after their 4 weeks hiatus as well. Totally awful. Shame on the stewards.

 

Mazepin gets credit for fastest lap of the day. Insane but no point as he was outside top 10.

 

Massi just covering his ass, drivers complain about conditions but Massi decides to race ...driver get injured ...ahh mr massi why did YOU continue with the race ?

Cowering in his chair with his face nappy on

This is not the F1 we want

 

Since you mentioned it.....

And don’t worry, drivers aren’t always the best judges of conditions....or their ability to cope with them.

 

They pretty much had to "qualify" this race, in order to say that Bottas and Stroll had served their grid penalties for their crashes in he last race.
Purely political.

Four hours to run two laps?
They could have run faster on tricycles.

I get the visibility issues. That's what "slowing down" is for.
Liberty was probably more worried about the cameras not being able to see the race through the spray.

 

It's the world we live in.

Predictably, LH is just complaining about being the victim.

No one's going to stop this 'pendulum' swinging.

 

Exactly. I understand the legal and financial obligations F1 was trying to oblige, but just try and attempt this little stunt with the fans at Talladega and see how that works out.

Shameful

 

Hence the halo. Should have raced. The sport took a black eye today big time.

 

I wish I’d got a picture of The Jester* sitting in his cockpit, helmet over mask.... With him you never know if he’s being funny or just clueless.

*RIC

 

Boy did F1 give the fans a hosing today. They could have even put the race in the open spot on the calender. This was a pathetic joke. The teams and the drivers should have refused the points and refused to recognize it as a "race." The only thing to watch was the short film of Mick driving his father's Jordon. Boy did that car seem small...and agile. I'm going to the Monaco Vintage F1 races in May...after that I may be unable to watch a modern F1 race again.

 

To be fair, the FIA must be subjected to liability laws like any sporting organisation.
If they operate in a way that is judged too risky by insurance companies, they won't obtain cover, or have to pay massive premium.
Massi must have made a quick risk assessment, and decided in the end that going full racing was out of the question.
But the race should have been unequivocally cancelled, postponed if possible,rather than turned into a farce.

 

They need a dedicated safety-car design that can go much faster in similar conditions. I'm thinking of a sports-racing-type car, but with a cockpit roomy enough for two men in racing uniform, perhaps similar to the first-generation Daytona Prototype.