Exactly my thoughts.
Actually this was a racing incident. If you don't understand that concept, there's little that's going to help you. Max and Hamilton were both to blame, and Max got the worse end of it. You can leave the melodramatic drama in YouTube comments...
You think I'm being dramatic? How? I'm just saying it as it is. Think about this - if people are allowed to get away with these sorts of accidents under the guise of a "racing incident", it sets a dangerous precedent indeed. Hamilton's penalty, although inconsequential, sent the right message.
How is a 10 second penalty "getting away with it"?
You've taken what I said out of context. I didn't say that he got away with it, I was putting forward a hypothetical situation IF the penalty wasn't given out.
I'll stop now. Nobody is being convinced of anything at this point.
Contrary to the prevailing British opinion here, Lerclerc and Verstappen both where on the same line, It's Hamilton that differs.
Don't know why you brought my other post into it. All that does is make me look like an idiot and completely invalidate my claim. So let me make it clear to you - Hamilton got away with the contact despite a 10 second penalty. You went back into the thread to dig up some dirt rather than focus on the one post, which mentioned nothing about "getting away with it". I was merely talking about the precedent that could be set if the penalty wasn't handed out. Nice job getting the right words out of me to make you look like the more intelligent person.
It was a general statement given the amount of Brits on here.I'm from Canada
The fact remains that Lewis passed two other drivers at the same corner without incident. It was a racing incident, both of them could have done something different. But in the end, Max threw away a large championship lead over 1 corner.
No need to drive off the track, just adapt the speed and maintain a wider line to make sure there is enough room for both cars. I agree that it wasn’t a smart move by Hamilton, but Verstappen wasn’t being very clever either. Being on the outside he should have realised that the slightest contact would likely send him off the track, so taking such an aggressive line was not in his best interest.
Sure any position that isn't ceding would be, but a move that you would expect the leading driver to cede is unrealistic when it was Hamilton who was actually making the move, Verstappen was on much newer tyres so I would assume unlike charles he would of been able to hold it on track but that is likely the widest entry he could of done and still make the corner, Hamilton could of done alot more then Verstappen there to aviod contact and still attack.
It's really disgusting how common this is occurring, or maybe it's always been but only recently noticeable but doesn't change the fact.Whatever your view, this is unacceptable.
Lewis Hamilton racially abused online after British Grand Prix win
Lewis Hamilton is the target of racist abuse on social media after his victory in Sunday's British Grand Prix.www.bbc.co.uk
Hamilton had been pushed so far towards the pit wall be Verstappen he was approaching the corner on a very dusty section of track. You can see from the images above that he was understeering and the in-car footage showed that he backed off moments before colliding with Max. He was pretty much a passenger when they collided. I do think it was a racing incident, but i also think the given penalty was the right thing to do by the stewards/FIA. Had the incident occurred a bit further into the race, when there wasn't the whole field of cars directly behind, Hamilton could have had more blame on his shoulders. He could have backed out as soon as Max pushed him towards the pit wall and he probably wouldn't have been at risk to following cars. But as it stood, you don't want to be a sitting duck on the appex of what is a fairly blind flatout-in-an-F1 corner when the rest of the field is due to come through within the next 3-5 seconds at 160+mph.
This guy seems to know what he's talking about with situations like the one yesterday with Max and Lewis
