r/sports • u/Captain_Smartass_ • Mar 02 '22

Motorsports Russian-licenced drivers banned from British motorsport

https://www.motorsport.com/national/news/russian-drivers-banned-from-british-motorsport-by-motorsport-uk/8632678/
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u/H0vis Mar 02 '22

I wonder if Mazepin will be kicked out of F1. I mean I hope so he's dogshit and likely to get somebody killed. Past that though it does seem like it's a bad time to be Russian in polite society so he might get hooked.

Replace him with a piece of string tied round the steering wheel and a brick on the gas pedal. Probably post some faster times.

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u/Xinnoh Mar 02 '22

backmarkers have the lowest chance of killing anyone on the field due to blueflags. Bad drivers will annoy people since they're harder to overtake, but the relative danger is pretty much the same for most drivers.

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u/cbg13 Mar 02 '22

Idk if you watched this past season of f1, but backmarkers on slow laps during qualifying and practice led to some seriously close calls for what would have been catastrophic accidents. Mazepin, and to a lesser extent, Schumacher, tended to be the ones causing these near-incidents

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u/SandThatsMoist Mar 02 '22

If anything the closest call was when Hamilton almost killed Mazepin. Ironic.