2018 FORMULA 1 CHAMPIONSHIP

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The Official Qualifying has just finished.  Finally and finally, Red Bull lived up to expectations of having the best aerodynamic cars by coming in first and second by Ricciardo, and Max.

Third went to Hamilton, 4th to Vettel.

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Max won the 2018 F-1 Mexican GP.

Hamilton won the 2018 Drivers' Championship!

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Official Qualifying of the 2018 Brazilian F-1 GP will start at 1200 (Toronto time).  There will be live telecast.

Race will also start at the same time tomorrow.

I have a hunch that since Hamilton has already won 2018's Drivers' Championship, and that he owes Bottas a win (for following Team order and let Hamilton pass when he was leading in the final few laps), and therefore during the race and if Hamilton is leading and Bottas is second, he will let return the favour, and let Bottas pass to take the win.

If both of them are not in contention, of course, there is no need to let Bottas pass.

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the following is the starting grid of the Brazilian GP:

Hamilton, Vettel, Bottas, Kimi.

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3 drivers from 3 different teams finished the 2018 F-1 Brazilian GP.  They are:  Hamilton, Max, and Kimi!

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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018'S F-1 BRAZILIAN GP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5pdLO9irzY


Pay to attention to 3' 35" incident which cost Max the win.  He was leading and was trying to lap a back-marker.

While by race rules, the back marker must give way when being lapped, Max had himself to blame for squeezing the back-marker.  As a result, wheels touched, Max spun, lost the lead, and Hamilton won!

This clearly demonstrated Max's immaturity.  The race goal is to drive safely and to win.  Touching wheels cannot guarantee the race leader can come out unscathed; furthermore, Max was so much faster than the back-marker, if he cannot overtake him at that corner, he can always overtake him at the next.

Well, both driver spun.  Max lost 5" and Hamilton re-took the lead and went on to win.
(Hamilton pitted for tire change much earlier than Max, and the tires were losing grip towards the end of the race, so he gave up the lead to Max to preserve his 2nd place finish.  Max's brainless move was a gift to Hamilton.)

Race Stewards gave the back-marker a 10" penalty, but cannot give the lead back to Max, and he lost to Hamilton.

In short, Max was plain stupid!  

Max has the potential and will one day be a World Champion one day, but he must learn about the overall objective of a race.

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This video from F-1's Official Site which shows only the incident of Max and Ocon touch-wheel incident:

https://www.formula1.com/en/late ... XKysWwEsQiEwsu.html

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The 2018 F-1 season ends in Abhu Dahbi (check spelling) end of NOV.

Both Drivers and Constructors Championship have been settled.  The only remaining question is whether Bottas will fast enough to allow Hamilton to let him pass and win the final race.

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The final race of the 2018 season is in Abu Dhabi (check spelling) tomorrow.  I am not even sure there is live telecast as I can't find it listed on TV times.  MAY be everything has  been settled and the advertisers have lost interest already.

If there is a live telecast, it should be around 0700.

Official Qualifying has just been completed, Hamilton, Vettel, Bottas.

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There will be live telecast of 2018's last F-1 event.  It will be on Channel TSN3 at 0800.

Look for it shortly before 0800!  I will.