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Odd there is no mention of the sausage kerbs which contributed to the issue.Steward's decision below. Honestly, I thought Hamilton should've gotten a similar penalty at Silverstone. But I'm glad the stewards are stepping up and making a decision rather than calling it a racing incident. This title fight has resulted in several crashes where the drivers are lucky to avoid serious injury. We don't need more of them.
“Car 44 was exiting the pits. Car 33 was on the main straight. At the 50m board before Turn 1, Car 44 was significantly ahead of Car 33.
“Car 33 braked late and started to move alongside Car 44, although at no point in the sequence does Car 33 get any further forward than just behind the front wheel of Car 44.
“During the hearing the driver of Car 33 asserted that the cause of the incident was the driver of Car 44 opening the steering after Turn 1 and “squeezing” him to the apex of turn 2.
“The driver of Car 44 asserted that the driver of Car 33 attempted to pass very late and should have given up the corner either by backing off sooner, or by turning left behind the kerb.
“The Stewards observed on CCTV footage that the driver of Car 44 was driving an avoiding line, although his position caused Car 33 to go onto the kerb. But further, the Stewards observed that Car 33 was not at all alongside Car 44 until significantly into the entry into Turn 1.
“In the opinion of the Stewards, this manoeuvre was attempted too late for the driver of Car 33 to have “the right to racing room”.
“While Car 44 could have steered further from the kerb to avoid the incident, the Stewards determined that his position was reasonable and therefore find that the driver of Car 33 was predominantly to blame for the incident.
“In coming to the penalty the Stewards emphasise that they have only considered the incident itself and not the consequences thereof.”
Verstappen gets penalty for Italian GP F1 incident with Hamilton
But run wide, get pushed off, understeer get thrown in the air.
Poor Bottas, he never gets to win so he doesn't fully know how to party down.Valtteri is looking on with a face of pure dread.
Pretty good day for Aussie drivers with Oscar Piastri winning the F2 feature race beforehand. 🇦🇺
That's the problem right there. Max has to learn that sometimes he has to concede. The sausage kerb is innocent on this occasion as the correct course of action was to go inside it. Max's line meant that contact was inevitable and he had no hope of making the left turn even if Lewis wasn't there.
It was stupid of them to put a sausage kerb at Parabolica. Having them on the inside of a slow chicane like Rettifilo is fine as they are there to prevent corner cutting. They are designed to keep you away. Max ignored this and decided to drive over it. The resulting crash was down to Max's decision.
There is that, of course, but it's not like a driver can climb out of the front of a halo at the moment, so the same might apply if ever a driver was trapped again. I think the difference which applies between F1 and Indycar which avoids this is that the latter nearly always races on circuits which have concrete barriers lined by SAFER barriers - there's less chance of spearing through the barrier and trapping the driver than in F1. They don't have to be right at the track edge, but look at Laguna Seca, Road America, Mid-Ohio, etc. Maybe in the future, F1 circuits should be looking to replace the Armco barriers with concrete instead?
