My view point has nothing to do with what Max said later.
In general, when someone or a team shows excessive celebration it is a sign of disrespect to the opponent.
In American football, you'll get a penalty for celebrating too hard after scoring. It's considered unsportsmanlike conduct.
If this is true, then FFS, this pathetic soap opera needs to stop...
Red Bull hire lawyer to investigate action against Hamilton
https://www.gpblog.com/en/amp/89636...r-to-investigate-action-against-hamilton.html
Yes I know. I don't agree with that either. It's like football players hounding the referee. They shouldn't be allowed to do it. It was just something about the way Horner lodged his complaint that really grated with me.
I can also fully understand Max being aggrieved but in the cold light of day, he has to accept some responsibility for that coming together. As if he would never try a move like that? Come on. And the penalty was entirely appropriate for a first lap racing incident. Who knew Lewis would drive so brilliantly and turn it into a win? I suspect not even Lewis, which was why he was so happy 😀
I believe majority of F1 fans (which are NOT hard core techical fanatics) just want to have an exciting race to watch and have an enjoyable weekend! The sprint qualifying leads to a more exciting and much more anticipated sunday race, in my book. It’s like a pre-race teaser / preview 😉 To me, it certainly has that “wow”“exciting” factor and has catched the attention of many. F1 is surely reaching to a whole new large market 👍 They are expanding and trying a new “formula” to entice more fans because at the end of the day, F1 is big bucks business, and they would obviously want more 😗
Let’s face it, similar to us TH fanatics, the majority of those who buy TAG Heuer are not watch freaks/WIS and unfortunately, they are the ones that dictate the trend of the market (and not the “minority” like us) 🤔 No matter what we say on a new release, whether good or bad, it will only be more relevant to TAG Heuer if it produces sales or not 🙄
All the sprint race showed for me is that the real Grand Prix doesn't need to be so many laps.
Generally, I'm not in favour of the sprint race, though and prefer normal quali. There's too much that can go wrong in a sprint race - crashes, safety cars, bad starts.
How about scrap it, do normal quali on a Fri, then a reverse grid race for reduced points on Sat (0.5 pt for every place you make up?), and then the proper race on Sun? Only problem with that is the reverse grid race would probably be better than the Sunday race.
I can't help but think the Sprint race is all well and good until it goes wrong. If Max or Lewis had done a Perez the race would have been ruined before it even started. At least they have acknowledged that they shouldn't have sprint races near the end of the season when it could decide the title.
I agree some races do go on and on.... but then again, how often do they finish just before someone was going to catch up? Changing the length would alter the strategy side of it significantly and pretty much ensure that everyone had to do one stop. Why not make them use all three compounds and therefore have to make two stops at every race?
