I have to say I think Hamilton is being a complete dick about all this.

 

Regardless of whether the rules on jewelry are sensible or not, Lewis turning up with a doctor's note suggesting he should wear the stud on health grounds is pathetic. Apparently having to remove the stud for a couple of days every week or fortnight has caused an infection and the doc has said to leave it in as leaving it out will cause the wound to heal over. This is where I call BS. Firstly, if it's causing problems you're not maintaining your piercing correctly, I first had my nose pierced in 1991 and wore it without fail for about 10 years before taking it out for work related reasons. Yes, it closed up within weeks but the tissue that forms is fairly weak. I re-pierced it myself using only a stud and now only wear the piercing at weekends, going days (and if I forget, sometimes weeks) without wearing and have no issues re-inserting it. Also, what kind of doctor recommends keeping the stud in over permanently removing it, if it's causing problems?

 

Lewis is being disingenuous over his reasons for wearing it but I do believe the rules could be altered and he should be allowed to sign a waiver relieving others of any liability for injury caused by his choice of attire

 

Hard to disagree with any of this, the whole thing is so tiresome and I end up thinking why not just take it out, but it seems so small and inconsequential that I think he should be able to wear it if he really insists.

Any thoughts on waiting for proof regarding whether Red Bull breached the budget cap, I see the British media are giving Hamilton the 2021 title.

of course the British media is, they’re literally the worst. I feel sorry for y’all in the UK and this abroad whose local coverage is the Sky UK feed coz y’all gonna hear nothing else all weekend

 

 

I have to say I think Hamilton is being a complete dick about all this.

 

Regardless of whether the rules on jewelry are sensible or not, Lewis turning up with a doctor's note suggesting he should wear the stud on health grounds is pathetic. Apparently having to remove the stud for a couple of days every week or fortnight has caused an infection and the doc has said to leave it in as leaving it out will cause the wound to heal over. This is where I call BS. Firstly, if it's causing problems you're not maintaining your piercing correctly, I first had my nose pierced in 1991 and wore it without fail for about 10 years before taking it out for work related reasons. Yes, it closed up within weeks but the tissue that forms is fairly weak. I re-pierced it myself using only a stud and now only wear the piercing at weekends, going days (and if I forget, sometimes weeks) without wearing and have no issues re-inserting it. Also, what kind of doctor recommends keeping the stud in over permanently removing it, if it's causing problems?

 

Lewis is being disingenuous over his reasons for wearing it but I do believe the rules could be altered and he should be allowed to sign a waiver relieving others of any liability for injury caused by his choice of attire

100% agree.

 

This is a safety rule that exists for an excellent reason. The fact is that they shouldn’t have been getting away with it until now but to then frame it as a rebellion against the race directors enforcing a rule you don’t like when *you* personally and quite literally exerted a mountain of pressure including threatening to walk away from the entire sport like a 2 year old mid-tantrum over a race director, in your view, not enforcing the rules is just a stunning level of arrogance and hypocrisy. Although given who were talking about that is par for the course

It is chucking it down in Singapore right now

Is it worth a watch the highlights??

Not really, no. It always felt it was on the verge of getting more interesting but ultimately nothing did.

 

Was a decent enough race

 

Bit pissed off that the sub-par Ricciardo and Stroll managed to finish ahead of Vettel/Gasly after a lucky lucky safety car period

 

 

I really liked the race

Perez was the bestest by miles, Sanz, Leclerq, Vettel, Norris, Gasly also great

 

the worst: Hamilton, Verstappen, Latifi, Alpine

Russell was the worst by a long way. Hopeless in every area today

Singapore Grand Prix Review

 

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And the race in a sentence:

Best driver: Perez

Worst driver: Russell

Best team: Red Bull

Worst team: Alpine

Best overtake: Verstappen on Stroll

Worst overtake: Russell on Schumacher (special mention for Verstappen on Norris too)

Best moment: Perez winning

Worst moment: Alonso lucks out

Best thing about the race: It was largely unpredictable

Worst thing about the race: Should have started 30 mins earlier

 

And the race in a sentence: Perez shows Leclerc that 2nd in the championship isn't a given for him

Edited October 2, 20222 yr by Severin

One reprimand, one five-second penalty. Perez keeps the win.

Russell was the worst by a long way. Hopeless in every area today

 

I disagree. Obviously switching to the mediums when he did was not the right call but he had nothing to lose at that point. The incident with Mick was pretty poor though...

 

It's the first race he's put a foot wrong all season so some slack can be cut.

 

You'd also have to go back a LONG time to find the last race both Lewis and Max had absolute stinkers. A very very strange race but was a fascinating watch!

Best driver: Perez [one of those rare weekends he turns it up to Max level]

Worst driver: Latifi [not content with ruining his own races anymore...]

Best team: Ferrari [even though once again Leclerc threw away a relative easy win]

Worst team: Alpine [car go boom, car go boom]

Best overtake: Verstappen on Stroll [think that was the one after the Anderson Bridge?* Edit: it was on Gasly]

Worst overtake: Russell on Schumacher [i need to see this again but first replay looked very clumsy]

Best moment: There wasn't one in particular which stood out, was a very enthralling watch with all the stoppages and incidents

Worst moment: Lewis chucking it straight into the wall [at least he didn't do it Tsunoda style!]

Best thing about the race: Mixed conditions gave it an added element of jeopardy throughout

Worst thing about the race: As a Merc fan it was a complete disaster!

 

And the race in a sentence: Where Max failed, Sergio prevailed

Edited October 3, 20222 yr by Dobbo.

I've never really had much knowledge of racing outside of F1 to judge properly, but is the quality of driver outside of F1 noticeably worse than it typically would be?

 

The rumours for next seasons line-ups seem so utterly uninspiring. Ocon and Gasly at Alpine is pure midfield. The RBR academy must be woeful, there can't have been many times since they've had two teams that Tsunoda would be getting a third season, but it doesn't even look like they've got anyone to go with him even if Gasly does leave. I know they dropped Vips but he's hardly close to pushing for it. The 2nd seat at Haas being taken by Giovanazzi or Hulkenberg, hard to get a choice that would make me care less .

Edited October 3, 20222 yr by RabbitFurCoat

Not really, lots of talent in F2. Drugovich should easily be getting a seat. Pourchaire maybe too. Then you've got this asinine Super Licence system preventing talents like Herta entering the sport.

 

I expect Sargent will get the Williams seat. But the Haas situation is weird, don't know why they'd dump Mick who's really improved in the second half of this season and is beating Magnussen regularly for a has-been like Gio or Hulk.

 

Hamilton was definitely worse than Russell, guess it was the team that decided to put dry tyres on Russel as an experiment for Hamilton to judge rather than being Russell's idea

I disagree. Obviously switching to the mediums when he did was not the right call but he had nothing to lose at that point. The incident with Mick was pretty poor though...

 

It's the first race he's put a foot wrong all season so some slack can be cut.

 

You'd also have to go back a LONG time to find the last race both Lewis and Max had absolute stinkers. A very very strange race but was a fascinating watch!

 

It was his first really bad race this year but he certainly went big with it.

 

Russell was slow at the start, making little headway through the field, in the third best car, and then completely misjudged the conditions, lobbied Mercedes for the tyre change, with the team eventually giving him his wish. It was obvious to everyone it was too soon and other drivers commented on it at the time. He compounded it by staying out and were it not for a safety car he'd have been even further back. That's not to mention his swerving in to Schumacher and then once again immediately suggesting the other party to be at fault.

 

I'm far more inclined to give leeway to Lewis and Max on this one. Lewis struggled with grip the entire race, being simply unable to fire up the tyres in those conditions. I agree he didn't have a great race and made errors but he was definitely better than Russell.

 

Max made two errors also but in mitigation, he was the fastest driver on track when in clear air, and quicker than the front pair by some margin. He was the only driver on track making significant passes without the aid of DRS, and even with the poor start he wisely kept out of trouble, made his way up the field and was looking good for the podium until he lost traction making a move on Norris. Had he remained fourth he looked capable of catching Sainz and Leclerc who dropped off dramatically near the finish.

 

I thought Sainz was way off the pace and Leclerc did ok, Perez did very well in difficult conditions but he made his share of errors too, only keeping the win because Leclerc couldn't maintain his pace until the end.

 

Alonso looked good, as did Vettel and Norris, Ricciardo was ok but the gamble paid off. Same for Stroll. Bottas and Gasly were ok but the rest were decidedly underwhelming

Hamilton was definitely worse than Russell, guess it was the team that decided to put dry tyres on Russel as an experiment for Hamilton to judge rather than being Russell's idea

Quite the reverse, Russell talked his team in to letting him try it

I've never really had much knowledge of racing outside of F1 to judge properly, but is the quality of driver outside of F1 noticeably worse than it typically would be?

 

The rumours for next seasons line-ups seem so utterly uninspiring. Ocon and Gasly at Alpine is pure midfield. The RBR academy must be woeful, there can't have been many times since they've had two teams that Tsunoda would be getting a third season, but it doesn't even look like they've got anyone to go with him even if Gasly does leave. I know they dropped Vips but he's hardly close to pushing for it. The 2nd seat at Haas being taken by Giovanazzi or Hulkenberg, hard to get a choice that would make me care less .

I think the talk is about whether Ferrari will put Schwarzman in the car rather than Giovinazzi or Hulkenberg.

 

Gasly I would expect to outclass Ocon.

 

Drugovich is decent, but beyond that I'd say the best talent is in Indycar right now - Herta, Palou, O'Ward all look to have great potential with Newgarden and Dixon being very capable older drivers

 

Any would be better than - Magnussen, Schumacher, Giovinazzi, Hulkenberg, Ocon, Tsunoda, Stroll, Latifi for a start

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The greatest overtake in F1?