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Formula One driver Nicholas Latifi received death threats after controversial season finale.
Fox News Sports ^ | 12.22.2021 | Gary Gastelu

Posted on 12/22/2021 6:37:20 AM PST by Carriage Hill

Williams Formula One driver Nicholas Latifi said that he has received death threats for his involvement in the controversial finish of the championship-deciding season finale in Abu Dhabi. Latifi crashed with five laps to go, which led to a safety car period and decisions by the race director that erased the commanding lead held by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and set up a pass to claim the win and title by Red Bull's Max Verstappen on a final green flag lap.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crazyfans; deaththreats; f1; nuts
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To: bk1000

Me neither; glad he lost it.


41 posted on 12/22/2021 8:31:36 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: xp38

I just enjoy watching, as I do with selected motorsports — F1, IMSA, IndyCars — since I was with the BFG IMSA Camel GT Racing Team back in the early 80s, with the Porsche 962/957.


42 posted on 12/22/2021 8:33:56 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nascarnation

Hamilton is no Stirling Moss. In some ways, being a Hamilton fan is like Prince Ginger fan. British, but not happy with being British.


43 posted on 12/22/2021 8:38:11 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Red Badger

Yes, Sterling Marlin after Dale’s death in turn 4.


44 posted on 12/22/2021 8:58:00 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Red Badger; Chode; All

Sterling Marlin in the Dale Earnhardt Sr. Daytona crash.

This is just as stupid. I’m sure that Nicholas Latifi would have preferred to finish the Race.

It is probably hammythehalfbreed having somebody on retainer for thuggary.


45 posted on 12/22/2021 9:03:19 AM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: carriage_hill

Death threats against Latifi? Nonesense.

Perhaps to Race Director Michael Masi for his “creative” interpretation of the rules allowing lapped cars to pass the safety car (only allowing those cars between Hamilton and Verstappen to unlap, while not allowing the rest of the lapped field to unlap themselves) and for calling in the safety car one lap earlier than the rules call for (both moves insured that at least one lap remained for full-on racing between Verstappen and Hamilton.)

But not Latifi.


46 posted on 12/22/2021 9:09:49 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Good race recap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QJ-N-AQJYc


47 posted on 12/22/2021 9:17:21 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Chode

Yeesh, I hope he doesn’t quit.


48 posted on 12/22/2021 9:20:53 AM PST by Bob434
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To: mabarker1

hammythehalfbreed LOLOL!!


49 posted on 12/22/2021 9:22:26 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Lockbox

oooff...


50 posted on 12/22/2021 9:24:02 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: carriage_hill

Almost every race throughout the season has had crashes which benefit one driver or another.
You can’t to about threatening people just because there was a high speed crash. These crashes can kill drivers. I still remember Senna.


51 posted on 12/22/2021 9:27:57 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: carriage_hill
This year's action between Verstappen and Hamilton will make for a fantastic installment for season four of F1-Drive to Survive on Netflix next year.

Some speculate that the bizarre calls by the Race Director was intentionally set up to create such a last lap duel between Verstappen and Hamilton.

Max deserved to win the title on the strength of his entire season, but I'm sure even he didn't want to win in this controversial way.

52 posted on 12/22/2021 9:27:57 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: carriage_hill

Williams have a pretty cozy relationship with Mercedes. They use Mercedes engines and Russell is under contract to them. Russell sat in for Lewis when Lewis had to sit because of Covid. I can’t see a motivation for a Williams driver do something like this.


53 posted on 12/22/2021 9:29:52 AM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: carriage_hill

Williams have a pretty cozy relationship with Mercedes. They use Mercedes engines and Russell is under contract to them. Russell sat in for Lewis when Lewis had to sit because of Covid. I can’t see a motivation for a Williams driver do something like this.


54 posted on 12/22/2021 9:30:55 AM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: tbpiper

Except obviously Hamilton can actually drive!!


55 posted on 12/22/2021 9:30:57 AM PST by southernerwithanattitude (New and Improved Redneck!)
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To: nascarnation

Same here - did not looked staged. Sounds like sour grapes from wokesters still crying about their boy getting beat.


56 posted on 12/22/2021 10:09:00 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: SmokingJoe

“I still remember Senna.”

I was also watching it, when it happened. Sad day.


57 posted on 12/22/2021 10:40:04 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

it was the final race of the season, senna was leading in points but had prost won, he’d have taken the championship. so senna drove into him taking them both out and winning the championship. it was a dirty trick, but to senna the ends justified the means.
Prost is enjoying old age whereas senna was killed in a crash a few years back.


58 posted on 12/22/2021 4:04:55 PM PST by Jeff Vader ( )
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To: Yo-Yo

“Some speculate that the bizarre calls by the Race Director was intentionally set up to create such a last lap duel between Verstappen and Hamilton.”

UNGH.

THAT sort of “realty TV” is exactly what racing DOES NOT need; we’ve already got a nauseous bellyful of it in all the quibbling specifications the cars have to meet.

This is the way sanctioning bodies destroy motorsports.


59 posted on 12/22/2021 4:39:32 PM PST by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: Jeff Vader; carriage_hill

“it was the final race of the season, senna was leading in points but had prost won, he’d have taken the championship. so senna drove into him taking them both out and winning the championship. it was a dirty trick, but to senna the ends justified the means.”


You have told only 1/2 of the story...

The PREVIOUS year Prost was leading the championship and Senna was faster and all around better than Prost. Prost deliberately crashed into Senna - ending both of their races/seasons and Prost ‘won the championship’ stating that there was a problem with the car...Senna’s car was drivable and he rejoined the race and won after pitting to replace his front wing. The stewards after the race disqualified Senna for: ‘cutting the chicane’ — McClaren appealed the ruling and the FIA fined Senna $100,000 and gave him a 6-month race ban (which they suspended).

A really nasty bit of officiating...

The next year when the tables were reversed Senna got his revenge on the nasty French man that I flip-off every time I see him on TV. The FIA head Jean-Marie Balestre was complicit in both years of horrendous decisions that went against Senna; Jean-Marie Balestre was a Frenchman and he clearly was helping Prost and interfering with Senna.

This years last race was NOTHING in comparison to ‘89 & ‘90.

Merry Christmas!


60 posted on 12/23/2021 5:17:03 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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