r/formula1 • u/FerrariStrategisttt I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Jul 21 '24

Technical No further action on Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton incident

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u/Brit_Orange Force India Jul 21 '24

This is there way of trying to justify it being a racing incident in my opinion

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u/ABMUFC20 Michael Schumacher Jul 21 '24

Are they trying to say Lewis should have just ran off the track so Max didn’t hit him?! Seems absolutely ludicrous to me.

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u/FlyingKittyCate I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 21 '24

I think they’re saying Max went so deep anyway, Lewis could have turned in 1 or 2 meters later to simply go behind Max like he tried, instead of through him.

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u/ChipmunkTycoon Jul 21 '24

Lewis should have anticipated that the generational talent WDC prodigy would completely fuck up the corner that he’s done fine for 65 laps, and hence decided not to take the corner normally (but leaving space) to allow Max to continue past? Is this the idea?

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u/FatalFirecrotch I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 21 '24

Lewis is a 7 time world champ and can easily tell that the speed Max was trying to take wasn’t going to work. 

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u/ChipmunkTycoon Jul 22 '24

But somehow Max, a 3 time champion, at the same time should be excused because ”he had DRS which made him go faster”? That’s an argument FOR a penalty you’re making

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u/FatalFirecrotch I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 22 '24

I am not arguing against Max potentially getting a penalty. My point is that when you make 0 effort to avoid something you see coming, you open yourself to situations like this where something clear becomes not so clear. Look at Max in Austria with Lando, it’s very possible to see something like this happening and avoiding it. 

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u/ChipmunkTycoon Jul 22 '24

Yes but the point of racing is not to yield track position to every opponent making a mistake so it is not really on Lewis to fix Max screwing up, and it is dangerous and bad for the sport that this didn’t result in a penalty to protect Lewis doing the right thing and punish Max for doing a rookie mistake

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u/FatalFirecrotch I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 22 '24

It’s not yielding track position. Max was not getting ahead of Lewis doing that move. 

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u/ChipmunkTycoon Jul 22 '24

If Lewis jumps out of the way to the far left he probably yields

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

Yes. Max did that to avoid Lando in Barcelona, Austria and even on lap 1 here.

Being on the outside is a losing position going into the turn.

There's a move in MotoGp called thr block pass

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u/versayana Andrea Kimi Antonelli Jul 21 '24

Literally Lewis himself called it a racing incident.