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Jeddah Corniche Circuit Lap data
Circuit length 6.174km
Corners 27
DRS zones 3
Race distance 50 laps
UK Times
Friday
1.30pm: F1 Practice One
5.00pm: F1 Practice Two
Saturday
3.00pm: F1 Practice Three
5pm: Saudi Arabian GP Qualifying
Sunday
5.30pm: THE SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX
Previous Winners
N/A
Verstappen can win the title at the Saudi Arabian GP
If he wins the race with the fastest lap (26 points) and Hamilton finishes sixth (8 points) or lower
If he wins the race without the fastest lap (25 points) and Hamilton finishes seventh (6 points) or lower
If he finishes second with the fastest lap (19 points) and Hamilton finishes 10th (1 point) or lower
If he finishes second without the fastest lap (18 points) and Hamilton finishes outside the top-10
The stewarding was fucked, Lulu and Max were fucked and both teams acted like little bitches!
This championship fight has gone from a hard battle to a cat fight in a plastic bag devoid of oxygen for me.
I will not be surprised if the final round ends in the wall at this stage.
Life is hard...but, life is harder when you're dumb.
I dont really think fixing this shis is hard, and I dont understand why they dont...
I said it a few threads ago, but its simple.
Both the attacker and defender must give at least a cars width room, If you push someone off the track you must give up the place.
If failure to give room causes a contact, instant penalty.
nutty wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:52 pm
I dont really think fixing this shis is hard, and I dont understand why they dont...
I said it a few threads ago, but its simple.
Both the attacker and defender must give at least a cars width room, If you push someone off the track you must give up the place.
If failure to give room causes a contact, instant penalty.
Simple fix
I would much prefer this. I'm not enjoying this new racing which seems to be all about deliberately running your opponent off the circuit. On top of that it seems the race director has no control* and they can't police it as it is now - the penalties are all over the place.
It was eventful and gripping but it's not the kind of racing I want to see. It's ugly stuff and has scary ramifications when this kind of behaviour inevitably trickles down to the lower - less safe - formulas.
*maybe it was the same with Charlie and the only difference is we're hearing these conversations now.
I really didn't understand the collision between them.
Surely the sensible thing from the race director is to tell the following car first that they're going to swap places. THEN you tell the leading car to move over. That way the car doing the passing is well aware of what is going on.
Also, I don't understand why Hamilton slowed at all. If Max had an engine/gearbox problem or a slow puncture, he would have just zipped straight by in a heartbeat. I don't quite see why he decided to slow down as well and directly behind him. If there was an on track hazard that there wasn't any flags for surely you would go to the side to see up the track and decide for yourself what was going on. I just didn't get why Hamilton also slowed down.
But my god that track is lethal. I don't know if you saw the big crash in F2. They also ended up abandoning the race with 10 minutes still to go after several safety cars. I think they will have to straighten out some of the kinks to make it safer next year.
Lewis has the momentum now for me. But if Max wins, Hamilton will bitch about it for years just like he did when Rosberg won. He'll drop lots of subtle hints about him being the real winner and stuff like that. I'll try and remember to add a poll for the final race topic.
I thought Hamilton's onboard made it easier to understand his confusion. Max wasn't fully over to one side or the other and was moving around a bit.
I think the other factor was there had been a string of VSCs and so Lewis' first instinct might have been that he'd missed a flag or something was happening ahead. You would not want to go flying past and find a marshal retrieving some debris or something.
I'm sure Max's driving style was a factor too. Generally as a rule, if you're alongside him you should assume you're either going to have a crash or be driven off the track.
The track is stupid though. I watched a couple of the F2 races and it almost feels like they designed it specifically to create chaos. Mazepin's accident was properly scary too.
Lewis was a little confused, yes, but ultimately they were both playing games with the DRS detection line.
Lewis can't complain if Max wins. Really, if Max loses it puts him (Max) in a similar situation to Lewis in 2016. Lewis was faster then but lost more points to issues outside his control.
"If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!"
