John wrote: ↑2 years ago
Not to race was probably right. Awarding points was not.
It's very rare that the vast majority of the driver's agree not to race.. usually there are a few saying 'ah, it's not that bad'. Today I only really heard Max say that and he had no one infront creating spray.. so I'm mostly ok with them not running the race.
Any decision regarding points would have pissed people off. George getting nothing after his incredible qualifying, Max losing the opportunity to pull in Lewis.. I'd have felt hard done by. I feel like half points is a reasonable compromise that's not too good or too bad for anyone.
Besides, if they'd started the race, and had five laps of madness at the beginning, it inevitably would have been red flagged due to conditions/accidents, and then half points would have been awarded anyway.. so we reached that conclusion, just without the madness.
Basically.. half of twitter would have absolutely kicked off either way. Yesterday it was the 'how could you let this proceed, it was so dangerous', half. Today it's the 'They're the best drivers in the world, let them race, what a farce, etc etc' half. Bah.