Lewis' left front and Max's right rear are what collided and he was fully along side him? Tell me how that physically works? He wasn't fully along side, he was half a car length and never was in front of him, which by rule he should have backed off. He also didn't turn into the apex, pushing his line to the middle of the track and forcing Verstappen wide. Just flat out by dirty Hamilton.'03ag said:
"a wheel"
That's asinine. Hamilton was fully alongside heading into the corner. Then you had a combo of Verstappen braking very late and Hamilton breaking a little early. That doesn't entitle Verstappen to the corner. If Hamilton charges into the corner the way Max did, he pushes Max wide on exit and then they're crying just as badly.
Hamilton isn't pointed at the apex, he's pointed at the center of the track. His steering wheel may be pointed there, but the car wasn't. Photo is right before impact.'03ag said:
Hamilton had the front of his front tire about even with Max's front axle before Max braked late into the corner.
Then Hamilton pointed his car at the apex. The assertion that he didn't is unequivocally false.
Glad I’m ok. Very disappointed with being taken out like this. The penalty given does not help us and doesn’t do justice to the dangerous move Lewis made on track. Watching the celebrations while still in hospital is disrespectful and unsportsmanlike behavior but we move on pic.twitter.com/iCrgyYWYkm
— Max Verstappen (@Max33Verstappen) July 18, 2021
Look at the antenna on the car, that's the center point, it's pointed at the middle of the track. There's a million replays right now showing he was wide into the corner. And Max is already turned in that photo.'03ag said:
That's total nonsense. He was pointed at the apex. The photo is right before Max turns into him as he's still trying to dive past
They showed it during the stop of the race after it. Trying to find it, because it pretty much proves the point that Hamilton was wrong. He didn't have it and should have yielded it.La Fours said:
I think it was after the race where Karun showed a side by side of of where Hamilton's car was at Copse with Max and Leclerc. Hamilton was much wider when he was trying to pass Max. And stayed very close to the inside with Leclerc.
The racing rule about the driver attempting to pass must yield the racing line to the lead car, I assumed didn't apply here because of the lack of mention by the broadcasters and after race interviews?
Red Bull's lead cut to 4 😮#BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1 pic.twitter.com/oqLCvmTSNC
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 18, 2021
Jensen Button's comments post race kinda defined it a little better. To him it wasn't the position fighting going on, but there was no physical way for Hamilton to carry that speed at the angle he had and hit the apex. Said he should have backed off because of that.htxag09 said:
Yeah. That'd be an interesting shot to see. I missed it. Also, a video overlay of the paths would have been interesting and pretty straight forward.
I tend to side with racing incident. Both max and Lewis could have backed out but didn't and both did things that make them each at fault. If I had to say one was more at fault it would be Hamilton. He was passing, he also took the inside line then pushed up to the middle of the track. To say he was hitting the apex and/or he was entitled to the line because he was even with or leading into the corner are both just wrong, IMO.
Enviroag02 said:
Damn projectiles flying into the crowd. That was a HARD hit!
Silver Arrows said:
Seems pretty close to me. Takes two to tango like Toto said. Max has gotten lucky that Lewis has backed out in the past but this time he didn't. Maybe he'll think twice now.
Silver Arrows said:
Lol great thinking. You hope someone intentionally crashes into Lewis because of a racing incident. So many trash fans.
