F1: All's well that ends well

[ZoWie]

The last F1 race of this year's season has a Hollywood ending. Everyone's happy.

Verstappen did one of his starting grid run away and hide jobs, and he gets the win, which he deserves.

Norris wins the championship by two points, which he deserves. It would have been too bad if McLaren's run of bad strategy had blown this, but it didn't. They aced this race. They get a high mark for this year, somewhere around the B+ level, which they deserve.

We get a new formula next year, which we deserve. The ground effect experiment had its chance, and was found to cause as many problems as it solved.

I'm sure next year's formula will have problems too, but watching them try different ways to resolve them will be interesting, which we do deserve.

What we don't deserve is having to pay Apple to see the races, but at least right now it sounds as if they will air the excellent Sky Network coverage by a bunch of entertaining and knowledgeable Brits, which we deserve.

So it goes in the New Gilded Age. Take what small favors the upper class gives you, and be glad you have those.

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Way to go Trump

Formula 1 reportedly set to cancel races in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia amid Iran war

Formula 1 is set to cancel two upcoming races in the Middle East as a result of the ongoing war in Iran, according to ESPN.

The Bahrain Grand Prix was previously set for April 12 and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was scheduled for a week later on April 19, but both will be called off after numerous strikes in both countries from Iran, whose leader Ali Khamenei was killed in a series of United States and Israel on Feb. 28.

https://sports.yahoo.com/f1/article/for ... 54597.html

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https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/arti ... 5vw1lwjzo

Neither event will be replaced, so the season will be cut to 22 grands prix and F1 take a commercial hit of more than £100m, given Bahrain and Saudi Arabia pay two of the highest hosting fees.