Shame On You Liberty Media! Although everybody’s
now just talking about Sunday’s Mega Championship Shunt instead…
All of the Subterfuge leading up to the second
riveting Sprint Qualifying Race at la Autodromo Nazional Monza surrounded Mercedes
Team Boss Toto Wolff deliberating the potential necessity to instruct Team
Orders to assure Sir Lewis, aka Golden Child, nee Lewis Hamilton scoring
maximum points.
Valtteri Bottas had pipped his team-mate
Hamilton by a slim 0.069 second for the pair to line up in that order on the
Front Row for the second Farcical Sprint Qualifying Race, with Wolff once again
Hypocritically waxing over how He Didn’t like issuing Team Orders, since they
were Racers at Heart. To which All I could Bellow Outloud when reading this
Cockamamy Fluff was then Don’t Stick the Knife in Valtteri’s Back Again, Toto!
And although I’m totally rooting for Max
Verstappen to knock Lewis off his perch of perpetual World Champion, albeit Figuratively,
Not literally! For which I didn’t watch Sunday’s race; part of me was wishing
for this exact scenario to play out in order to expose the Sham of this
Contrived Qualifying Format! Since although it’s perfectly in Any F1 Team’s
right to do such a thing as Ordering who Finishes where in a race and now
Sprint Qualifying, this is Not what true Pole position is All about! Not to
mention doling out points for the Top Three Finishers.
Even worse, Formula 1 Mouthpiece, Err Director Stefano
Dominicali is trumpeting the case for having seven or eight of these Ridiculous
Sprint Qualifying races next year. Ok, go ahead and continue Mucking round with
F1 Liberty Media, but if you’re gonna do so, then Please do Not classify these
results as Pole positions! As you’re tarnishing the Sport severly! As when will
the first manufactured Team Orders Sprint qualie’ Finish occur and end up in
the record books as Pole?
After All, notice how Red Bull sacrificed
Verstappen’s Wingman Sergio Perez during Friday’s Pre Sprint Qualifying
Qualifying, giving the Dutchman a Tow in order to ensure Max would be starting
up front vs. the Mercedes on Saturday…
Also, which I notice nobody’s talking about at All
is how the Fans as Always once again are taking it on the Chin, and in their
wallets. Since the Sprint Qualifying weekend format reduces the amount of
actual Track time, i.e.; what Fans Pay for when buying a Grands Prix ticket. As
a Hour and 15mins time is cut off on Friday and a further 15mins is Nipped on
Saturday, but somehow I’m guessing ticket prices aren’t reduced, Righto?
As the only change in position Saturday was
Hamilton Muffing his start and dropping to fifth place behind the two McLarens
that jumped ahead of him on their softer rubber Pirelli compound tyres, and
then we settled in for a procession to the Chequered Flag, 18 laps later, Yawn!
As Verstappen was quite willing to follow
Bottas home since the Pole winner would be starting near the rear of the grid
due to having taken an unapproved Power Unit change. And thus if you’re just
reading the Box Scores, you’re gonna be Confused over what happened to Bottas
who “won” Pole?
So what’s next? Reverse Grid Starts, Oh Never Mind!
Afterwards, FIA Motorsports Director Ross Brawn
tried explaining how even though they’ve now had two Duff Sprint Qualifying
races, He still wants to wait until the final experiment at Sao Paolo, Brazil
later this year before making any Judgements on it, and what possibly to do to
improve it; Saying “They” Don’t want Any gimmicks or Contrived “Outcomes.” To
which I immediately Screamed Then Get Rid of the Bleepin’ Qualie’ race Format!
As Knock this Shit Off Liberty Media!