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There was no mistake - Masi did what all teams indicated they wanted - finish the race under green flag. As race director he had full discretion with regards to safety car start and end. If there was a mistake then it was the "lapped cars may not overtake" message, that should have been "lapped cars may overtake" in that case all lapped cars would be unlapped and there would per normal procedure (not no whining Toto and Lewis) a restart with 1 lap to go. Toto is just a sore loser and it was specifically pathetic to hear his plea earlier in the race "please no safety car" when a VSC was done. Mercedes screwed up by failing to pit Lewis under VSC or SC. The Mercedes had enormous pace advantage as was clearly demonstrated that Lewis on old hards could nearly still overtake Max on fresher softs.

05-12-2023 12:19

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Starting from pole Giuseppe Farina lead the first ever F1 championship lap at the British GP in 1950, that race he lead 63 laps of 70 laps. At the next race in Monaco it was Juan Fangio leading all 100 laps from start to finish that past first through the 100 laps lead barrier. Then the 1950 Indy race was held where Johnny Parsons won and lead 115 of 138 laps to pass Fangio’s record of 101 laps in the lead. Fangio took back the record at the Belgium race, leading 22 laps bringing his total to 131 laps in the lead. Giuseppe Farina then took the record at the Italian race, leading 78 laps bringing his total to 197 laps at the end of 1950 season that in total counted 529 racing laps. During the Swiss race in 1951 both Fangio and Farina passed the 200 laps lead mark but Fangio was first, won the race and held the record with 216 laps in the lead. Farina got the record again at the Belgium race bringing his total to 235 laps. Fangio at the British race extended his total to 275 once again taking the record and at the Spanish race he passed through the 300 laps in the lead setting the record at 359 laps in the lead, 31.5% of the 1,139 laps raced in 1950 & 1951 (333 laps at Indy). Having lead 2 laps in 1950 and 99 laps in 1951, 1952 was to become Ascari’s year despite missing the first race and retiring at Indianapolis. In Belgium he took the lead on the 2nd lap and stayed in the lead for the remaining 35 laps, then lead all 77 laps in France followed by all 85 laps at the British race and 18 more laps in Germany followed by all 90 laps in the Netherlands becoming the first driver to surpass 400 laps in the lead and setting the record still standing today, leading 305 consecutive laps. Ascari lead 44 more laps at the Italian race bringing his total to 450 laps in the lead and becoming the first driver to lead 200 and 300 laps in a single season, leading 352 of the 648 laps, 54.3%, of the 1952 season. The 1953 season started in Argentina, Ascari leading all 97 laps surpassed the 500 laps in the lead. That season Ascari would lead 418 of the 736 laps (=56.8%) being the first driver to lead more than 400 laps in a season. In the 1954 season Ascari would lead 61 more laps bringing his total to 929 laps a total that Fangio would surpass at the 1956 Argentinian race. At the French race later that year Fangio would reach 1,000 laps in the lead on lap 34, having lead 1,004 laps of the 4,367 laps raced in 52 races (7x Indy for 1,333 laps), Fangio would extend his record to 1,347 laps with his last lap leading at the 1958 Argentinian race, Fangio is still ranked 16th in the all time ranking. So Fangio was the first to lead 100 laps and a 1,000 laps, Ascari was the first to lead 500 laps as well as first to lead 200, 300 and 400 laps in a season. Jim Clark would break the records of both drivers, first in 1963 leading 506 of the 708 laps an amazing 71.47% of the laps in that season and then in 1965 surpassing Fangio’s total record of 1,347 at the 1965 Dutch race. Clark lead his extend the total laps lead record to 1,943 laps with the last laps lead winning the 1968 South African race. 56 years later (939 races) Jim Clark is ranked 8th in all time ranking. Jumping 20 years forward to first the 1988 season in which Ayrton Senna broke Jim Clark’s records for leading most laps in a season with 553 of 1,031 (=53.6%). The next year at the 1989 French race Alain Prost broke Clark’s record of total laps lead. The next race, the 1989 British race, Alain Prost became the first driver to surpass 2,000 laps in the lead. Ayrton Senna was the 2nd driver to surpass 2,000 laps and took the total laps lead record from Prost at the 1991 San Marino race and extended it to 2,931 laps. In 1992 Nigel Mansell broke Senna’s record for most laps lead in a season becoming the first driver to lead 600 laps in a season and he almost reach 700 laps, leading 694 of 1,036 laps an impressive 66.99% but 47 laps short of Clark’s 71.47%. We move into a new century for Michael Schumacher to start breaking laps lead records, at the 2001 French race Schumacher takes Senna record of most laps lead and 3 races later at the Hungarian race become the first driver to lead 3,000 laps. Schumacher passed the 4,000 laps lead at the first race in 2004 in Australia. In 2006 at the German race Schumacher also surpassed 5,000 laps in the lead, finally extending the record to 5,111 laps with 3 laps lead at the 2011 Japanese race. Schumacher didn’t manage to break Mansell’s record of most laps lead in a season, he did come close in 2004 being 11 laps short by leading 683 of 1,122 laps (=60.9%). Sebastian Vettel did manage to brake Mansell’s record in 2011 and become the first driver to lead 700 laps in a season, leading 739 of 1,133 laps (=65.2%). Fast forwarding 10 years to the 2021 season where Lewis Hamilton surpassed Schumacher’s record of total laps lead at the 1st race in Bahrain, to date Lewis has extended that record to 5,455 laps in the lead, lap 38 at the Austin race in 2023 being his 5,455th. The currently last entry in laps lead record books is Max Verstappen’s dominate 2023 season in which he not only became the first driver to lead 800 laps in a season, but also 900 laps and in Abu Dhabi 2023 an astonishing 1,000 laps in a single season. Moving him to 5th on the all time laps lead ranking By leading 1,003 of 1,325 laps or 75.7% Verstappen also broke Jim Clark’s 60 year old record with 56 laps to spare.

27-11-2023 10:44

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