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BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2021

  • Writer: Fastly
    Fastly
  • Aug 27, 2021
  • 5 min read

This was the most disappointing, disgusting weekend of my life. Lewis Hamilton tried to kill Max Verstappen and then all the fans were cheering as if Max hadn't almost just died. Then Hamilton took away the win from Charles at the last minute. If we never went back to Silverstone, I would be just fine with that.


Also, not only was the weekend horrible, but it was also in an experimental format which added a sprint race for the first time. The whole thing was crazy and made it more difficult to follow, which I don't feel like we need, but also, it was nice to have a sprint race instead of just another practice.


I truly felt crushing disappointment after this. It was so unfair.


Practice 1

  • wait WHAT this is an experimental format this weekend and it is SO WEIRD. Practice and Qualifying on FRIDAY, Practice and Sprint race on SATURDAY, then Race on Sunday HUHHHHHH I HEARD NOTHING ABOUT THIS

  • WAIT WHAT LANDO WAS MUGGED AT WEMBLEY STADIUM LAST WEEKEND and was beaten up and had his 75k watch stolen and he is shaken and not sleeping OH MY GOSH

  • Now George’s mirror is cracked and last around here. This happened to Latifi earlier on the year

  • This Hamilton ans SIR Hamilton and Hamilton strait talk is just unbearable

  • All the Hamilton fans are trying to out do the Max fans from the last couple weekends UGH

  • Did they just say Perez signed for another year with Red Bull??? That would be amazing!!

  • At the end of this session Maxy fastest and Lando second and Hamilton is only third HAhahahah

  • Charles ended the session in fourth, ahead of Sainz, of course

Qualifying

  • out in Q1: Tsunoda, Kimi, Latifi, Schumacher, Mazepin

  • Track evolution was HUGE in Q1

  • GEORGE GETS INTO Q3 AGAIN for the second weekend in a row but how awesome since it’s his home race and he gets the biggest cheer of all!

  • Out in Q2: Alo, Gasly, Ocon, Gio, Stroll

  • Ham on pole

Sprint

  • everything’s floating?! What are these new photos and poses?! Uhhh what is this new format

  • They still do a formation lap

  • Max’s brakes are smoking and even shooting fire while waiting on the grid. SHOOTING OUT FIRE

  • A SUPER CRAZY FIRST LAP AND impossible to keep up and MAX KEEPS THE LEAD after several attempts by Hamilton

  • George and Sainz make contact on the first lap

  • Alonso makes an amazing first start and gets ahead of so many people

  • Mazepin hit his teammate Schumacher and spun again and almost took out both of them, what else is new

  • They have like a new thing that is over the car head

  • 5/17 WOAH PEREZ SPINS AT HIGH SPEED ON A CORNER BUT KEEPS IT OUT OF THE WALL SOMEHOW, I was suuuure he was right into that wall, but now he’s back in 18th so this is terrible but I can’t believe he kept it out of the wall

  • George and Sainz under investigation for the causing a collision

  • Alonso getting a warning for weaving and moving in the braking zone. He was weaving so much that when someone else was doing it, it was called Alonso weaving

  • Last lap, they have to retire Perez’s car so he must have more damage from the spin than we thought and so he has to start from the pit lane where he has to retire

  • Max on pole!! Hamilton in second, Bottas in third. Charles starting fourth!! Sainz is only starting 11th. Perez will have to start from the pit lane

  • Now they are doing victory lap interviews in a truck that is driving around the track for ten minutes with Jensen interviewing them all and Max wearing a wreath, this is the craziest thing

Race

  • George did get a penalty and starting 12th for hitting Sainz in the sprint

  • Tom Cruise is in the Mercedes garage. Gross.

  • But Harrison Ford is in the Williams garage! Classy

  • A WILD LAP 1 WHICH has Max constantly getting ahead of Lewis every time Lewis tried to get ahead BUT THEN LEWIS HITS MAX AND SENDS HIM INTO THE BARRIER AT 180 MPH AND TRIED TO KILL MAX

  • RED FLAG

  • In the fallout of all that, Charles, who got into third during the first lap, passed Hamilton after Hamilton hit Max and Charles is now leading the race

  • Max limps out of the car towards the ambulance and gives the fans a wave but he is moving slowly and going to be checked at the medical center

  • Now Christian Horner tells Michael Massey that Lewis caused the accident and that he was never ahead of Max and that was a massive accident

  • Also Max’s engineer radios in to tell Michael Massey that he is furious

  • Mercedes and Toto argue you Michael Massey that Lewis was alongside and Lewis even says to look at an email he sent him just now of the diagram of where to put the cars or something, I mean, an EMAIL

  • The incident between Max and Lewis is finally under investigation

  • Karun does a diagnosis which shows that Hamilton was never ahead of Max and that Max even turns away to give him space

  • They can’t remove the Red Bull right away because it could have a battery issue and they can’t touch it

  • Max crashed into the barrier sideways and it smashed the whole side of the car and the entire car is totaled and they won’t be able to save any of it

  • Alonso’s start was actually really impressive

  • Turns out Max narrowly missed hitting a much harder part of the barrier so we are really fortunate he missed it

  • Second start is a stationary start this time, not rolling

  • Charles is still leading on restart!!

  • Seb is spinning while he was fighting with Alonso but it was all Seb’s fault. But keeps it out of the wall!

  • SOOO Hamilton has a ten second time penalty for causing a collision with Max. I am surprised he had any penalty but also is that enough for

  • Daniel’s McLaren is smoking and they think he is going to have to retire but he keeps going so we don’t know why it was smoking

  • Charles is managing to stay in the lead! Hamilton can’t pass him! Everyone thought Hamilton would pass him easily but Charles is out front with a beautiful gap and doing a fantastic job!!

  • 15/52 CHARLES REPORTS ENGINE CUTTING OUT while in the lead!! Hamilton catches up but doesn’t pass him, then the engine cuts out again!! And Charles is frantic on the radio trying to make the car work and they’re giving him all these instructions I MEAN I totally thought this race was over as soon as the Ferrari started having problems because there was no way this car is going to make it to the end if it’s already dying in lap 16

  • Some crazy fighting between Perez and Kimi

  • Norris pits from 3rd and has a terrible 6 second pit stop from a tricky tire and that means he won’t be on the podium and it releases Bottas ahead of him

  • Charles having to fight his Ferrari this whole time but still maintains the lead

  • Sainz has a terrrrrrible 12 second stop because stupid ferrari can’t get the front left tire off

  • Even after Charles pits he retains the lead!! He’s done nothing wrong!

  • To Bottas “Team order: do not fight with Lewis” EXCUUUUUUSE ME

  • Bottas gives absolutely no fight and lets Hamilton through just like he ordered to

  • Suddenly they tell Vettel he has to retire so that’s over, not sure why

  • Gasly has a late puncture but keeps going

  • Kimi goes off when Perez is passing and renters the track right in front of Charles in the lead

  • With two laps to go Hamilton does get past Charles for first at copse, the same place he hit Max earlier, and almost takes Charles out too

  • Hamilton wins. Charles in second after leading the whole race.

  • Hamilton celebrating and soaking in the blind adoration of the fans like he didn’t win because of team orders and because he tried to kill Max on lap 1


  • It was truly one of the most disappointing and disgusting races I’ve ever seen.





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