Poll: Mexican Grand Prix 2022, Mexico City - Race 20

[uscool]

Worst season in F1 ever? Absolute dominance by a team who broke the budget cap. It’s pretty sad tbh. Hopefully the penalty helps even things up for 2023.

Some don't see it as a big deal . Win at any cost lol

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

All seasons that end up with a dominant team are boring, even the ones Hamilton won.

 

[chrismscotland]

Not seen Marc Gene for a long time

 

[Skyboat]

Giving it a 3 because of Ricciardo

 

[Locky]

Worst season in F1 ever? Absolute dominance by a team who broke the budget cap. It’s pretty sad tbh. Hopefully the penalty helps even things up for 2023.

They say cheating never prevails - but in F1 it absolutely does..

 

[Psycho Ned]

Worst season in F1 ever? Absolute dominance by a team who broke the budget cap. It’s pretty sad tbh. Hopefully the penalty helps even things up for 2023.

Depends on how far your viewing of F1 goes back, fair few of the Schumacher Ferrari championship years were garbage as well. Even as a Hamilton fan can't say some of the last 7/8 years were great from a competition view either.

 

[MM-Seat]

You need to go rewatch some of the Vettel years if you think this is bad.

It’s ok though. At least it’s someone else dominating not named Lewis

 

[uscool]

2nd for constructors is still something to watch for

 

[cu3ed]

All seasons that end up with a dominant team are boring, even the ones Hamilton won.

Yea, but now most wins an by most points. So a bigger snoozefest now.

 

[UTmaniac]

You need to go rewatch some of the Vettel years if you think this is bad.

I still have nightmares about Seb's crazy frog victory jingles!

 

[Mesai]

All seasons that end up with a dominant team are boring, even the ones Hamilton won.

Agreed, those were incredibly boring seasons with the odd Ferrari in the mix.

 

[Mr Jack]

Mercedes plan now is essentially 'hope the mediums die on the RB and they don't have a decent enough set of third tyres to attack the last 15 laps'

Not sure they had a better option. Neither as fast not as good on tyres as the Red Bull, 2nd and 4th is a good result but Merc should have listened to George and extended until they could run softs. Dani showed that was the way to go.

 

[Kenai]

Is @Stumble Bum ok? Voted a 5??

 

[Flibster]

Some don't see it as a big deal . Win at any cost lol

2 drivers and 1 constructors world championship cost them a $7 million fine and 10% wind tunnel time.

Pretty sure any team would take that deal...

 

[imtoooldforthis]

So the only reason i can think of why Merc went onto the hards was because they were focused on maintaining track position ahead of Perez. If they had kept Hamilton out any longer he would have come out behind Perez and presumably struggled to get by due to the straight-line speed defecit. If so that suggests they always intended to go M>H unless Perez somehow got gapped bigly in the first stint, in which case they could have gone M>S. Im guessing M>M>S was never an option.

 

[Stumble Bum]

Is @Stumble Bum ok? Voted a 5??

I'll get told off if I vote a 10.

 

[Flibster]

Are they saying Boo or Booo-urns?

 

[MM-Seat]

So the only reason i can think of why Merc went onto the hards was because they were focussed on maintaining track position ahead of Perez. If they had kept Hamilton out and longer he would have come out behind Perez and in their mind that presumably is a big problem (perhaps due to their straight line speed).

Or simply, it was the only option available to them to try something.

 

[Scam]

2 drivers and 1 constructors world championship cost them a $7 million fine and 10% wind tunnel time.

Pretty sure any team would take that deal...

Indeed.

So the only reason i can think of why Merc went onto the hards was because they were focussed on maintaining track position ahead of Perez. If they had kept Hamilton out and longer he would have come out behind Perez and in their mind that presumably is a big problem (perhaps due to their straight line speed).

Well, they were kinda right though.

 

[jonneymendoza]

Another snoozefest up front.... Literally nothing happening inside the top 6

yea it was shambles