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No there is never one line. There is one quickest line but just check out a few corners before Lewis had the corner and Max would have torpedoed him had he not given him racing room. Just look at Perez penalty last week.
No corner is one line.
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Penalty was harsh. You cannot approach a corner side by side and expect a car to dissapear because you slightly out braked it. Hamilton could also have backed out to avoid a collision, verstapen could have backed out and gone wide. Backing out is why rosberg played soft and won less than he could of. When he played hard too he got a championship too.
You really need to think about this, in the context of the speed of that corner. Lewis knew it, he just backed out too late.
That's how people get killed...
Absolutely correct. Which is when I was Steward that's the principles I applied.
Same corner clean pass.....stick that in your pipe Horner.
We either want racing in F1 or not simple. If Max had of done the same I would be saying the same.
So the Silverstone stewards were wrong then - not Lewises fault at all.
That's not to say the guy has not driven the wheels off that car today - he is some racer. Shame his main opponent has gone home.
He did NOT need to turn in. He should not have turned in. He knew he had a quicker car inside him.
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Incorrect, he was ahead and had the racing line
Yes.. they were wrong. OR they were wrong last week. The emotion has to be taken out and the outcome for Max. 99.9% of the time opening lap would be racing incident.
There would have been no penalty if it had not ended up in the barriers.
At the end of the day as you say he drove the wheels off the car. And yes I would rather it had been Max he was racing with.
That said it's going to help the championship just as did Hamiltons mistake in Baku.
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Yes it definately can end that way so if they are to penalise for it now then it should be penalised for always. Both these drivers rely on someone else backing out so unless they both get a healthier respect for safely then they could cause a crash. I am not saying it was not dangerous, so is travelling 200mph on a band of rubber with steel bands that are able to unhook themselves and explode if run backwards. But we saw that in f1 too. Both drivers could have given way to make the corner passable. Both get a penalty or neither.
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Unfortunately the F1 stewarding always has problems, hence all the complaints about it over the years, they let politics get in the way - which is exactly what the 10s penalty was, that was a racing incident and the 10s was just to placate Horner/RB fans - plus all the bitching from the teams that you saw today over the radio. If I was a steward and that's what I kept getting constantly from teams under investigation, constantly yammered at while trying to look at evidence, I'd exclude both teams just for trying to interfere with the stewards and race controls decisions.
Who? Max did not leave racing room .
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And he wasn't even on the racing line to start with, he left the line to crowd Lewis over.
Where were all these racing line people a couple of corners earlier when Lewis was actually on it, Max went off track and still hit Lewis coming back on and keeping ahead off track. Nobody minded that one.
Where were all these racing line people a couple of corners earlier when Lewis was actually on it, Max went off track and still hit Lewis coming back on and keeping ahead off track. Nobody minded that one.
Fair comment.
I was lucky the worst penalty I ever gave was against a team my son was racing for.
Being a class 2 football referee helped as it allowed me to be able to detach myself from the outcome and just the incident /penalty.
I am glad you saw it as well. I did mention it in passing. But to be fair that was another first lap racing incident . No penalty.
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