I think it is in F1's business interest, from a PR perspective, to cover up where possible any perceived cheating within the sport. I don't think that is a conspiracy, just self interest to avoid bad publicity leading to a drop in the amount of money being generated.
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This really doesn’t make sense to be honest. If you were booking it like a wrestling show you’d want Hamilton to win the title last year, always good to have the upstart look to have it in the bag then only just fail before actually winning. It’s storytelling 101.
Masi made a simple mistake under tough circumstances. A safety car finish would have been awful, everyone knows the right call was a red flag but it took longer than he thought to clear up the mess from the crash and he panicked, it’s already cost him his job like.
Disagree with the first paragraph. It is very bad for their brand for the same team to win every year.
Second should be obvious. It was a really hard decision under intense pressure, with lots of moving parts (taking longer than predicted to clear the track etc).
It also clearly shouldn’t have been allowed for the teams to communicate directly with him.
But he made the worst of all the calls available and was rightly sacked.
The team won the championship anyway. If you want to build intrigue you want another year of “can Max get over the line?” as losing to Lewis does nothing to hurt his growing rep. I’m going into storytelling though which obviously isn’t what happened.
I have no issue with Masi going after getting such a major call very wrong, the idea that it was a fix or whatever we keep hearing is just A) very boring and B) totally unnecessary. He fecked up and got punished, why keep dragging his name through the mud when there was zero malice in what happened?
Also teams having a direct line to him was a joke. Nobody comes out of that looking good.
Mercedes need to continually pump out rule breaking and conspiracy narratives, probably because they realise it's the only way to keep their fanbase engaged when they aren't winning.
Nothing like a bit of controversy in F1.
What's the view on this weekend? We haven't been in Japan for a while and Merc dominated that era.
Max has had some serious pace even last time out and could win the championship with a win plus fastest lap - it's probably the most likely outcome unless Ferrari have rediscovered some pace.
What's the view on this weekend? We haven't been in Japan for a while and Merc dominated that era.
Max has had some serious pace even last time out and could win the championship with a win plus fastest lap - it's probably the most likely outcome unless Ferrari have rediscovered some pace.
I still think Red Bull will be too strong for anyone here but it seems like a track Ferrari should go well at, Merc hit and miss everywhere.
I won't be getting up at 6am to find out though.
I won't be getting up at 6am to find out though.
It will be like that one time City could have won the title against United but we beat them. They still won the title and United were still shit, but we managed to ruin their party for a moment.
Mercedes one-two coming up.
Yes, you said that already. It also has nothing to do with what I said about the budget cap issue.
Will never happen. F1 brand is too strong.. but I agree, I'm a Ferrari fan. Don't support any driver since Kimi retired. What Ferrari did with fuel was dodgy, last year was crazy and now this money thing... F1 ALWAYS had this stuff but it is now overshadowing the racing.
Hard to watch live sports if you aren't invested in the outocme though. I think this may be my last season unless things change.
Only if you live in a TeamLH twitter bubble.
This just isn’t true. The majority of people watching simply do not care.
Good job with an irrelevant comment as I'm a Ferrari fan and the last driver I supported completely was Kimi. Read the full comment.
Agree. It's for people like me (and a few on this forum) that have been watching for a long time and have had enough. Also too many BS street circuits and not real tracks.
Doesnt matter who you support the point I'm making is that the conspiracy theories only thrive on twitter. Obviously the UK media do their best to help them along.
I'm not a Mercedes fan either.
I agree that I'm not a huge fan of the sport anymore. Cars got wider on thinner and more boring tracks with longer straights. Drivers are increasingly reliant on DRS, which is the most boring way to overtake. And when they ditched mid-race refuelling, they took away a really interesting tactical variable. Managing tyres/ engines is such a defensive and boring way to race.
Hopefully wind tunnel restrictions and budget caps will even out the playing field, but the latter needs to be enforced and any overspend significantly punished. Otherwise it makes a mockery of everything F1 is trying to do.
Agree with all of this.
Way bigger problems for F1 than silly conspiracy theories.
I'm not based in the UK and have no idea what the UK media does. The "conspiracy theories" as you call them are being discussed in over 5 countries outside Europe by me and my friends... I'm not on twitter or instagram or any of that BS either, so you are continuing to make wrong assumptions. It's great for the sport, shit for us old fans.
Yup i agree with everything you are saying. Refueling the big one for me. Things like Schumacher's 4 stop in France or 3 stop in Hungary not possible due to it.
Also hate the BS DRS.
It's Red Bull's race all day long for me. I actually think we'll see Max's biggest domination yet, with Perez in second.
They look so good (apart from the last race mistakes) on race pace that even Perez won the race quite comfortably and he was literally one of slowest drivers on the grid in the last 5-6 races.
Refuelling going was when I went from watching every race to merely having an interest.
Wasn't the theory that the new aero regs should lead to it being dumped... Can't see it going myself but it feels very artificial
Yep, agree 100%.
DRS is fine on some tracks and during some parts of the track, but I hate it on extra long straights in which quicker car anyway has extra 20 km/h advantage and enough time to even get back into breaking position which is shite racing game level of entertainment.
I like it more when used during lower speeds like in some parts of the Red Bull Ring for exampld.
I like it more when used during lower speeds like in some parts of the Red Bull Ring for exampld.
There were quite a few "simple mistakes" throughout that season then. Almost all of them favoured Max and Red Bull. I'd say at best he was bias because of his relationships with Red Bull.
F1 teams will enjoy an extra 30 minutes of track time after Friday's second practice session at Suzuka to test Pirelli's 2023-spec prototype tyres.
The extended session is part of Pirelli's 2023 development programme that has unfolded this year, during which Formula 1's exclusive tyre supplier has gathered the relevant data during testing and on race weekends to improve its product for next season.
"An innovation for this year is the fact that we will be testing some 2023 prototype tyres during an extended free practice session on Friday afternoon, as we finalise the specification for next year with the end of this season approaching," confirmed Pirelli F1 boss Mario Isola.
Pirelli confirms extended FP2 at Suzuka to test 2023 tyres (f1i.com)
The extended session is part of Pirelli's 2023 development programme that has unfolded this year, during which Formula 1's exclusive tyre supplier has gathered the relevant data during testing and on race weekends to improve its product for next season.
"An innovation for this year is the fact that we will be testing some 2023 prototype tyres during an extended free practice session on Friday afternoon, as we finalise the specification for next year with the end of this season approaching," confirmed Pirelli F1 boss Mario Isola.
Pirelli confirms extended FP2 at Suzuka to test 2023 tyres (f1i.com)
Japan GP Free Practise
FP1 is wet
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2022 Japanese Grand Prix weekend weather forecast
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 – FP1 AND FP2 WEATHER
Conditions: Clouds and rain expected throughout the day, with FP1 and FP2 expected to be wet.
Maximum temperature expected: 17 Celsius
Minimum temperature expected: 15 Celsius
Chance of rain: 60%
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 – FP3 AND QUALIFYING WEATHER
Conditions: Mostly sunny throughout the day with some high passing clouds.
Maximum temperature expected: 22 Celsius
Minimum temperature expected: 16 Celsius
Chance of rain: 0%
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 – RACE WEATHER
Conditions: The race is expected to be dry but there is a chance of rain hitting towards the latter part of the afternoon.
Maximum temperature expected: 18 Celsius
Minimum temperature expected: 15 Celsius
Chance of rain: 40%
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 – FP1 AND FP2 WEATHER
Conditions: Clouds and rain expected throughout the day, with FP1 and FP2 expected to be wet.
Maximum temperature expected: 17 Celsius
Minimum temperature expected: 15 Celsius
Chance of rain: 60%
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 – FP3 AND QUALIFYING WEATHER
Conditions: Mostly sunny throughout the day with some high passing clouds.
Maximum temperature expected: 22 Celsius
Minimum temperature expected: 16 Celsius
Chance of rain: 0%
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 – RACE WEATHER
Conditions: The race is expected to be dry but there is a chance of rain hitting towards the latter part of the afternoon.
Maximum temperature expected: 18 Celsius
Minimum temperature expected: 15 Celsius
Chance of rain: 40%
7 minutes left of FP1 and there is no cars on track.
It's just the way Liberty want it. It's being positioned for a Netflix generation watching Drive To Survive, the traditional fans are not the desired market anymore.
There had been declining viewers for years so maybe it's what it needs.
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He has to be in the Top 3 of worst F1 drivers ever.
Happens to the best of us.
The lame excuse there 
Not even close
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1778582-ranking-the-10-worst-drivers-in-f1-history
Jean-Denis Delatraz - lapped 10 times in his first race
Al Pease - 1 race and disqualified for going too slowly
Chanoch Nissany - took up racing as a hobby at 38 years old - brought himself an f1 drive with minnardi at 41 - span straight out and coudnt figure out how to release the steering wheel
He invented a rule ... thats not a mistake
It wasn’t invented, it was partial enforcement of a regular rule in a high pressure situation that needed something to happen after a mistake had already been made 4 minutes or so previously.
Conspiracy theories really don’t hold any weight.
Oh yeah, bog standard partial rule being held up, happens all the time.
The delusion is real