diffuser wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 17:05
izzy wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 16:57
AeroDynamic wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 16:47
He represents the stakeholders, what happened in AD hurt F1's image and potential value. They want that AD report out to either deny anything went wrong, or to assure fans that they know what went wrong and won't happen in future.
Stefano is rumoured to have wanted Masi gone.
Well I think the opposite
I think F1 makes a lot more money with the new, young, mainstream, blond WDC that it would have with an 8th boring one from the same weird pyjama wearing type. Plus the drama omg, so DTS
Imo this is why the whole thing happened. And otherwise, what do we have for a motive?
That is short term gain for long term loss. I think you have alot of happy to see Hamilton lose (nothing to do with him, just people get tired of the same guy winning) and Max/RBR fans happy to see him/them win. There is a large contigent of F1 fans, some Hamilton, some Max and some just F1 fans that really didn't like how that went down. if you don't appear to fix what happened, you risk losing them or turning the sport into WWF. WWF idea wouldn't work for me cause alot of the attraction is the engineering. Why would they need any engineer if it's all make beleive.
Yes I agree with all this, it might turn out to have been a mistake. But so far afaik the stats are all in favour. And at the time, we can imagine how the situation happened: there are Ross, Jean, Stefano & co sitting watching the race, and goddammit Lewis and Mercedes are gonna do it AGAIN!!! So boring. Until... Latifi
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And so then there's the SC, 5 laps to go, Max pits, and Michael says
no unlapping! Frustration. So far, so near, so far. Unless...
It probably didn't seem such a bad thing to ask, if only Michael had had one more lap available. But then there was still a marshall on the track, so it all got rushed and he's not the strongest head in the world is he, and so what he did looked terrible and worse than any of the bosses really intended.
And that's the only motive in play afaics. MM himself had no reason to do what was so obviously wrong and always going to be bad for him.