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LeSoupeKitchen
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This is why I stopped watching rugby. When a game is decided by the rules and not the performance and all the commentators support it then you know it's just a stupid sport and not worth getting emotionally invested in.
$hoguN
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And this is why it will end up in court
mark87
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And also having used up your subs only for five players to then get injured and have to go off.
And probably injured because Latifi somehow managed to drive onto the pitch and take out those players.
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Japhet
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Only if the rule is suddenly changed in the 98th minute and a penalty can be given for................I don't know........the ball hitting a player above the waist? Absolute bullshit from Masi.
Tucker
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It’s one of the reasons I stopped watching F1 in the first place. Only got sucked back in by the closeness of the fight this year. More fool me.
tobi
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Its clear in the rules, the guy broke the rules of the sport.
Ending behind the safety car would have been shit but Masi has fucked this up so bad.
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Sporting Regulation 39.12. The safety car needed to stay out one more lap as it has to wait until the lap AFTER the cars unlap themselves to come in.
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I don't think there was anything nefarious going on. I think Masi just made a bad decision.
Clearly Horner was in his ear about the original decision to not let lapped cars through, and mentioned some mumbo jumbo about how "sporting integrity" required that they race the final lap.
Masi ultimately agreed that he did not want the championship decided under a safety car, and that it would be an exciting finish - without ever considering that Max, on new tires, would always be able to overtake in that instance - thus it was never a "fair" fight.
Mercedes had the better car, driver and tactics for 57 laps - only to be outdone by Masi.
Clearly Horner was in his ear about the original decision to not let lapped cars through, and mentioned some mumbo jumbo about how "sporting integrity" required that they race the final lap.
Masi ultimately agreed that he did not want the championship decided under a safety car, and that it would be an exciting finish - without ever considering that Max, on new tires, would always be able to overtake in that instance - thus it was never a "fair" fight.
Mercedes had the better car, driver and tactics for 57 laps - only to be outdone by Masi.
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I think if the boot is on the other foot, Verstappen would have made a crash happen and bagged the title there and then. Hamilton tried to race his way to the title - and they say cheats never prosper.
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As soon as he got into a decent car he became a thoroughly unlikeable, stroppy, ****. The David Warner of F1 
mark87
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As soon as he got into a decent car he became a thoroughly unlikeable, stroppy, ****. The David Warner of F1
Just reading that man's name makes me wanna start throwing shit.
Marty
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F1 figures aren't down though. Drive to Survive has brought them back up again, US figures have doubled since season one premiered in 2018.
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I’ve actually never seen a more corrupt sport in my life, just amazed how the rules allowed Lewis’ lead, to be wiped out just like that.
LSUY
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Can only assume you've never watched boxing or anything organised by FIFA.
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Yid-ol
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I have no isses with the safety car and closing the gaps, it's been done for so many years now. It's them letting only a handful of cars. From what I can fine (not much online that I can find) I found the below.
As FIA indicates in Article 39.12 (sporting regulations 2017), lapped cars may unlap themselves once cars were lined up behind the safety car.
yawa
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not entirely accurate. They’re up from their lows but seeing they nearly halved from the late 2000’s to the late 2010’s. They’re still a long way from their peak.
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