Bill Pemberton
0ld Ford Automotive Racing Terror
I knew there would be a bit of controversy partly because the Announcers kept saying it working to portend the future, yet I thought that if this had been a NASCAR race there would be no real discussion at all. It is a race, it should end as a race, and as noted before was it really Mercedes who faulted earlier not taking on tires? When racing renews the field does not stop and get the same tires because the beauty of a track event is tactics. Knowing things can change throughout a race, hammering the gas till the very end is why F1 pilots ( and those in every racing endeavor ) are told the race is not over until the checkered flag falls. The tactics worked for Max, and this time they did not work for Hamilton, yet in my mind it was the best F1 Season ever. Two guys fighting for the title with identical Championship points, not sure how much better a final race could be.
So we go into 2022 with a new Champion, something almost always needed in Sport when you have a dominating Driver , as we can all remember the dislike for Gordon, Busch , Johnson, and others regardless of talent, because so many just wanted to see a new Champion/Winner. Hamilton will go down as one of the " Greatest Drivers ever in F1," yet like Johnson or Gordon or Scott Pruett or Scott Dixon or Vettel , eventually a new crop of racing talents appear and change the landscape. Next year should be exciting as we will see if Lewis is still dominant or will Max or even Hamilton's co driver George Russell take the reins?
I love controversy or even contrived controversy , because it percolates discussions, builds new interest and makes many drivers realize the extreme importance of tactics. I am often surprised friends don't realize that tactics in racing are every bit as important as in Football, Baseball, etc.
Heck when you get to be an older racer , tactics is your best friends as your quick twitch reflexes have flown the coop, ha!
2022 brings new cars, new tires , new engine regs and a new Champion, so I will be glued to the TV to see what drama will come forth, as we all could be watching F1 starting a new era --- it will be in the US with 2 races in our Country ( Miami and COTA )>
So we go into 2022 with a new Champion, something almost always needed in Sport when you have a dominating Driver , as we can all remember the dislike for Gordon, Busch , Johnson, and others regardless of talent, because so many just wanted to see a new Champion/Winner. Hamilton will go down as one of the " Greatest Drivers ever in F1," yet like Johnson or Gordon or Scott Pruett or Scott Dixon or Vettel , eventually a new crop of racing talents appear and change the landscape. Next year should be exciting as we will see if Lewis is still dominant or will Max or even Hamilton's co driver George Russell take the reins?
I love controversy or even contrived controversy , because it percolates discussions, builds new interest and makes many drivers realize the extreme importance of tactics. I am often surprised friends don't realize that tactics in racing are every bit as important as in Football, Baseball, etc.
Heck when you get to be an older racer , tactics is your best friends as your quick twitch reflexes have flown the coop, ha!
2022 brings new cars, new tires , new engine regs and a new Champion, so I will be glued to the TV to see what drama will come forth, as we all could be watching F1 starting a new era --- it will be in the US with 2 races in our Country ( Miami and COTA )>
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