YOUR SAY
Formula 1 is a sport, not a show
What a shame a classic Formula 1 season with great duelling between two top drivers ended the way it did, thanks to arbitrary decision-making by the FIA race director. The rules of any sport are there to be followed, and it was reasonable for Mercedes-Benz to base their decision-making on precedent – that it was highly unlikely there’d be sufficient laps for safety car procedures to be properly followed and still leave time for a racing lap at the end.
The stewards’ decision that showing that the safety car will come in at the end of a lap takes priority over allowing all lapped cars to pass the safety car doesn’t explain why five cars were allowed to pass and the others not, nor the conflicting messages prior to that as to whether any cars would be permitted
