[[ you would prefer that the rules are ignored or made up because a Brit sticks his nose in where it doesn’t belong]]
Again, Huh? What “rules are ignored” are you talking about?
“The stewards said that although that article may not have been “applied fully” as the safety car came in at the end of the same lap, “Article 48.13 overrides that and once the message ‘Safety Car in this lap’ has been displayed, it is mandatory to withdraw the safety car at the end of that lap.
“That notwithstanding, Mercedes’ request that the Stewards remediate the matter by amending the classification to reflect the positions at the end of the penultimate lap, this is a step that the Stewards believe is effectively shortening the race retrospectively, and hence not appropriate.””
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/mercedes-protest-over-abu-dhabi-restart-not-upheld/6878818/?s=08
[[but if you want to cheat to see him lose]]
Again- huh? please explain how the Stewards and myself are ‘cheating so that lewis loses”?
you aren’t cheating, the FIA is they are making up the rules as they go. The way the rule is written if cars are going to unlap they all unlap and then on the next lap the safety car comes in. Perhaps for next year they can publish a chart which establishes the hierarchy of rules and which article supersedes or trumps another particularly when the stewards themselves caused the conflict. (No lapped traffic being waved through, then only five being allowed to pass and then calling in the safety car. The bottom line to me is if you can ignore or change .12 well why can’t you do the same for .13 or even better just do it the way you have all year.
I thought they messed up in Baku too and it should have ended under caution.
.12 doesn’t read this only applies when we feel like it. The reason many folks are angry is over 51 years of F1 or however long ago the rule was adopted and has been in force it has never been done like this.
I obviously did a poor job of delineating between the race and the social component of you anger, I apologize for that.
The progressives have been working on ending the republic un for more than 100 years, unfortunately the are dangerously close and even if our country we will be so debt ridden that we can’t fend off the any further challenges or crisis.
So, you aren’t cheating and to me the stewards just made it up which I call cheating.
Mr. Choate has repeatedly stated he wants to see them race for the win.
I have a different view, if the race is posted for 58 laps, then it should run for 58 laps and if the cleanup is not complete without complying with the established procedures and standards then it ends at lap 58 under the safety car.
Otherwise, you end up with such things as NASCAR and their Green White Checker which leads to a 205 lap race when it was posted for 200.
Again, my opinion worth what you paid. Thank you for the discourse and have a great night.