but you just knew that Max was not going to give it up. You know, he got the job done into five, and then you know, coming back on the straight with the slipstream, you think. “I’ve lost my voice, because I was screaming from turn five all the way down that back straight. But I’m just so proud of Max, so proud of the team, for what we’ve been through this year, what we’ve achieved, against some great opponents. Difficult circumstances for the stewards, we were all putting pressure on them, but they called it right. But they don’t need to catch up the back of the paddock, so they made absolutely the right call. It’s unheard of to leave the cars unlapped and you could see they wanted to get the race going again. And then it was all down to Max, you know, to make it happen.” Re: the lapped cars overtaking and Wolff disagreeing: “Yeah of course he will obviously do that. This championship came down to the last lap, and a great strategy call, to make that pitstop and take that set of softs. “We were screaming at him : “Let them race.” That’s what we’ve been talking about all these years: let them race. And I have to say look, all credit to Lewis, he’s been a phenomenal opponent all year, he’s a great world champion, and that’s what makes it even more valid, you know, to win this. It’s been an insane competition and for Max to win the world championship it’s not just about here, it’s about a whole year. “And I have to say, with the stewards, we felt hard done by early in the race, they did great to get the race going again. you know, thank you, Nicholas Latifi, for that safety car. I think I called it on the commentary, that it was going to need something from the racing Gods in the last 10 laps. But I’ll be reserving judgment until we know all there is to know.Ĭhristian Horner: “That just about sums up this year, I think. It does feel a bit like they hollered “Next goal wins!” with Hamilton 352-0 up, which works better in the playground than in elite-level sport. But the integrity of the sport, words that feel as ridiculous to write about F1 as they do football, cricket, boxing, tennis and all the others – needs to come above everything. I do wonder if this was Masi’s rationale, and if it was – a massive if – I understand it. Watching Hamilton win behind a safety car would have switched them right off.” F1 is dying, maybe a few of the folks tuning in this afternoon will tune in next season. What more could you ask for? One driver raced better than the other and is now the champion. The two best drivers racing head to head on the last lap. “I’d argue that most people who tuned in for this race as a one-off casual for the drama probably enjoyed this and thought it was a fantastic end to a world championship. “I’ve seen a couple of emails in now about how all F1 fans will feel sick at how this played out,” says Sean Duffy.
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