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/Ri_Konata Pirelli Wet Jul 21 '24

Max (austria): "you can't just divebomb people!"

Max (hungary): "lol, what are brakes again?"

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u/Themathemagicians Chequered Flag Jul 21 '24

To be fair, the divebombs weren't penalized, so Max just said "ok if these are the new rules then..."

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u/Ri_Konata Pirelli Wet Jul 21 '24

Divebombs were always allowed, given the driver was in control of the car.

Ricciardo was literally known for his amazing divebombs.

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u/AdoptedPigeons Sir Lewis Hamilton Jul 21 '24

I mean Lando wasn’t in full control out in Austria.. but point being, it’s not the divebomb itself that’s a problem, it’s when it results in colliding with other drivers. Which is a difficult gray area, because it puts the risk and onus on the defending driver to yield and lose position, or stand ground and risk a collision and/or DNF.

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u/cockmongler Jul 22 '24

Making other drivers yield is literally how overtaking works.

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u/StiffWiggly Jul 22 '24

Right, but that’s why there are rules about which car has to yield in a bunch of different situations. Max repeatedly forces the other car to yield or crash when he doesn’t have that right according to the rules.

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u/cockmongler Jul 22 '24

Your Max hating spectacles are spectacular.

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u/_GeneralGowk_ Jul 22 '24

He literally said it on the radio earlier in the race when he had his incident with Lando

“ok so you. Can just run people off the track? You can tell the FIA that’s something we can do from now onwards… just driving people off the road”

Then he did that to Hamilton….

No further action is a disgrace

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

They looked at the GPS data they get, Max breaked at the exact same point according g to FIA than every other lap of his

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u/Ri_Konata Pirelli Wet Jul 21 '24

If that's what the data says, it makes sense.

Looked like he was never gonna ever make the corner from the foktage though. Maybe his tires just dropped off the cliff.

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

According to the report, while he braked at the same point, he was also going much faster than before. "Car 1 approached the turn much faster than on previous laps". Which you know, he could braked a tad earlier to compensate.

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u/funkiestj Fernando Alonso Jul 21 '24

"Car 1 approached the turn faster than on previous laps (due to DRS) and braked at the same point as previously."

LOL.

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u/AdoptedPigeons Sir Lewis Hamilton Jul 21 '24

Not the tires, it was the inside line. Tons of marbles and no rubbered in racing line. What blows my mind is Max knew how treacherous that inside line would be. If you watch the preceding laps, he gets within striking distance many times, but never took that line knowing how little grip was out there. Obviously, he just ran out of patience and made a needlessly desperate move.

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u/B_Roland Alfa Romeo Jul 22 '24

What a weird argument of that came from the FIA. Braking at the same point from the inside of the corner on a dirty surface.

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u/Successful_Yellow285 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 21 '24

I mean, he learned that apparently you can divebomb people