Dec 13, 2021
F1-drivers Lando Norris, Fernando Alonso, Charles Leclerc, Sebastian Vettel, Carlos Sainz and Daniel Ricciardo give their opinion on the last lap safety car situation
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F1-drivers Lando Norris, Fernando Alonso, Charles Leclerc, Sebastian Vettel, Carlos Sainz and Daniel Ricciardo give their opinion on the last lap safety car situation
Lando Norris on a Max being allowed to overtake a few backmakers [him included]
“I am not too sure what was said from the FIA. First we weren't allowed to overtake. So, if that influenced decisions against Mercedes and Lewis and they didn't do the pitstop. Then the FIA changed there minds that we were allowed to pass. Then that I am not sure.”
Another interview with Daniel Ricciardo and his take on the Safety car situation
“Obviously congrats to Max and Red Bull, but I honestly can’t say that without feeling for Lewis. Ehm.. Yeah… (…) You have to feel for him. It’s a pretty dramatic end to say the very very least”
Very diplomatic answer and you can clearly see he wants to say something else.
FACTS.
So Max didn’t even need to worry about someone behind him?
Yup. That’s fair…
"In this competition, you saw in the Formula 1, you can do everything; [Max] Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton were incredible champions, but sometimes the success doesn’t depend on you. Something decides if there is a winner and you don’t win but both are champions," said Guardiola.
"The players have to fight like Verstappen has done and Lewis Hamilton has done until to the end. But sometimes even with that doing perfectly, doing incredibly well, there is something you cannot control that decides you are the winner and you are not the winner.
"This is an example I took from Sunday is always to fight and how nice it was. In the end a law or a VAR or a bad decision and many things can happen and you don’t win. What you have to do is like Raheem has done in the last games or these incredible two athletes from Formula 1 have done. This is the lesson we have to learn. They never give up and never say I am not going to try but sometimes doing perfectly something happens that the athletes cannot control and you don’t win."