F1 Championship Decider

Stickybottle | 12:34 Sun 12th Dec 2021 | Sport

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Just a reminder that this race is also being shown live on Ch4 as they have struck a deal with Sky Sports
Race starts at 13.00 GMT

Come on Lewis !

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Verstappen over 10 seconds behind, 5 laps to go. Takes a pit stop, now he's even further behind. One lap to go, officials make a decision that puts him level, no seconds behind,on fresh tyres. That decision gifted the championship to Verstappen. The opposite decision would have gifted the championship to Hamilton. The race and the whole championship became...

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These sorts of things happen a lot in F1. It's part and parcel of the sport. There have been other decisions through the season that, had they gone the other way, wouldn't have left the title decider as it was, level on points.

The bad thing for F1 is that they built up this championship decider like it was a heavyweight boxing title fight, and then they had another one of those "moments" that brings the result down to an official decision. But this time the world was watching, and saw something like the ref jump in on that title fight and award the fight to the challenger as they were taking a beating from the champ.

Bazile

He's already better than Schumacher in my opinion

Don't forget that Schumacher's teammates were not allowed to finish on front of him

That is not the case with Hamilton .
Think Alonso , Rosberg....

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baz: "Don't forget that Schumacher's teammates were not allowed to finish on front of him " - cobras in 1999 Eddie Irvine won 4 races, Schumacher was runner up in 2 of them.

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