Rodzilla
Terry Lamb 1996
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2008 singapore grand prix, massa in control, renault rig the race with a crash from piquet to help teammate alonso get the lead, with the stupid pitstop rules that year everybody has to wait until a couple of laps under safety car before the pitlane reopens, ferrari is forced into a tight pitstop with the rest of the field right behind instead of a 5 second gap, they made a mistake under the pressure and massa ends up driving off with the fuel hose still attachedNot a Hamilton fan at all but FMD how much does it suck to lose a race, and title, like that. Poor bastard did everything right up until the end. I thought the NRL had some stupid rules but the safety car rule in F1 is ridiculous. There is WAY too much luck involved. I'm surprised Red Bull didn't engineer a safety car with Perez 10 laps earlier but they got lucky with Latifi's stupid crash (a Merc driver no less)
Not a Verstappen fan either (bit of a grub and a sore loser) so hopefully we can get Ferrari challenging these guys next year to spice things up as I dont want to see F1 dominated by these 2 guys for the next few years
earlier in 2008 at monaco, hamilton hits the wall and is a minute behind when a safety car comes out, again those stupid pitstop rules mean the leaders cant immediately pit, meaning not only has hamilton made back up his time lost but his pitstop to repair the damage is actually an advantage now since he is the only one to fuel up, he wins the race simply because he made a mistake he was going nowhere before the mistake
at imola earlier this year he goes off and loses a minute with damage and taking a long time to rejoin the track, but he is saved by the mercedes candidate teammates bottas and george russell crashing and bringing out the red flag
so with normal amounts of luck this season then verstappen would be world champion before the final race and hamilton would have one less world title, not to mention the luck of being in the dominant mercedes and having F1 lock in the cars and engine for many seasons to save money, basically locking in hamilton as champion