F1 2021 Season

They definitely seem to enable his more childish tendencies, doesn't help when you have Horner setting the example for the entire team with his embarrassing interview after the race.

Max really needs some tough love to force him to grow up a bit, a bit like Lewis was forced to do, but he won't get anything other than smoke blown up his backside at RB.
And also the team owner saying Hamilton should be banned from the next race. Ridiculous group of entitled idiots.
 
Max lost that race in part because he made a poor decision. There’s been 9 or 10 incidents like this so far this season, including a few yesterday, and the first time Max is in that position they crash. I’m confident (and therefore I can state this as fact) that if Lewis was in Max’s position they wouldn’t have contacted. Max’s inexperience cost him today.
Given the fact that Hamilton has been involved in more collisions than Verstappen in the last 2 years, your claim is truly baseless.

All this talk about what a dirty driver Verstappen is, and yet Hamilton is the one collecting penalties and penalty points. Amazing cognitive dissonance.
 
Leclerc continues to show is one of the best drivers in F1. Hamilton very fortunate to KO his rival and come away with 33 points. Good drive from him though.
 
Given the fact that Hamilton has been involved in more collisions than Verstappen in the last 2 years, your claim is truly baseless.

All this talk about what a dirty driver Verstappen is, and yet Hamilton is the one collecting penalties and penalty points. Amazing cognitive dissonance.
Why 2 years? And where are you getting your collision stats from? Can you share.

Looking here at retirements, so not exclusively collisions, Max is at 21.7%, Lewis is 9%.
https://www.f1-fansite.com/f1-drivers/max-verstappen-information-statistics/
 
I’m sorry but within this race alone Hamilton overtook Norris and Le Clerc into that corner. So I fundamentally disagree with your argument.

Also, what if Verstappen hadn’t given Hamilton space? And just turned in on him? Would Hamilton still be responsible?

I have said in this thread many times, I can understand Hamilton’s penalty. Not because he was slightly behind. Not because he “shouldn’t have been there”. But because his mistake was he missed the apex of the corner. He didn’t mean to, it wasn’t malicious. But a
Sums it up nicely. This should draw a line and answer the question.



It won't though.

This really should be the end of all this debate. Everyone here has an opinion, most with bias and all of us have not raced close to this level. Two current drivers one ex double champion and one future one both said racing incident.
 
Why 2 years? And where are you getting your collision stats from? Can you share.

Looking here at retirements, so not exclusively collisions, Max is at 21.7%, Lewis is 9%.
https://www.f1-fansite.com/f1-drivers/max-verstappen-information-statistics/
I am talking about penalty points.

Verstappen has been on 0 for the last 2 years now.

Hamilton, in the meantime, has collected 12 penalty points. He has 4 right now and about 8 have expired in the last few months.

Collision stats don’t mean anything. They don’t tell you which driver was at fault, nor do they count collisions that did not result in retirement.
 
Given the fact that Hamilton has been involved in more collisions than Verstappen in the last 2 years, your claim is truly baseless.

All this talk about what a dirty driver Verstappen is, and yet Hamilton is the one collecting penalties and penalty points. Amazing cognitive dissonance.
What total rubbish. Spanish GP turn 1:



Max takes that turn at a speed where he cannot hold his line, he runs wide and Lewis backs out to avoid the crash. If the positions were reversed there there's another shunt. I'm not saying that should have been a penalty, I'm saying Max is famous for his aggression in both attack and defense, this time is came back and bit him and and now he's complaining.

Missed Apex said this best: this was a crash both drivers consented to.
 
And also the team owner saying Hamilton should be banned from the next race. Ridiculous group of entitled idiots.

Yeah and it's gonna negatively impact Max in the long run, he's gonna get more and more spoiled and entitled which won't serve him well in title challenges.
 
What total rubbish. Spanish GP turn 1:



Max takes that turn at a speed where he cannot hold his line, he runs wide and Lewis backs out to avoid the crash. If the positions were reversed there there's another shunt. I'm not saying that should have been a penalty, I'm saying Max is famous for his aggression in both attack and defense, this time is came back and bit him and and now he's complaining.

Missed Apex said this best: this was a crash both drivers consented to.

Nothing wrong with that Spain move. It was an aggressive late on the brakes maneuver, but he got it done cleanly and was ahead on corner exit.

Hamilton hit Verstappen from behind, totally different scenario.
 
Nothing wrong with that Spain move. It was an aggressive late on the brakes maneuver, but he got it done cleanly and was ahead on corner exit.

Hamilton hit Verstappen from behind, totally different scenario.
Because you want it to be. Max was ahead BECAUSE Lewis backed out to avoid a crash as Max had gone in too hot.
 
it should have been a 10 second stop and go, not a 10 second penalty.

This “let’s just add seconds to their race” is horse shit, especially if you drive a red bull or Mercedes as those cars are more often than not, nearly one second per lap faster than the next fastest car.

If you decide that Lewis is at fault and therefore destroying Max’s race, his race should be heavily affected as well. A 10 second penalty does not accurately reflect the overall damage the incident caused.

I do wonder if social factors (especially considering last week) didn’t play on the mind of the Stewards in determining the severity of the penalty?

If we look back over time Schumacher got similarly fecked over at Silverstone 94 which inevitably assisted Damon Hill into putting an undeserved title fight together.
What do you mean?
 
I am talking about penalty points.

Verstappen has been on 0 for the last 2 years now.

Hamilton, in the meantime, has collected 12 penalty points. He has 4 right now and about 8 have expired in the last few months.

Collision stats don’t mean anything. They don’t tell you which driver was at fault, nor do they count collisions that did not result in retirement.
Strange choice of time frame. Why choose 2 years? If we look at the current state. Hamilton is currently one of the drivers with the least amount of penalty points on 2.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...what-did-they-get.3rFAlHELKARrdjzveVONuC.html
 
it should have been a 10 second stop and go, not a 10 second penalty.

This “let’s just add seconds to their race” is horse shit, especially if you drive a red bull or Mercedes as those cars are more often than not, nearly one second per lap faster than the next fastest car.

If you decide that Lewis is at fault and therefore destroying Max’s race, his race should be heavily affected as well. A 10 second penalty does not accurately reflect the overall damage the incident caused.

I do wonder if social factors (especially considering last week) didn’t play on the mind of the Stewards in determining the severity of the penalty?

If we look back over time Schumacher got similarly fecked over at Silverstone 94 which inevitably assisted Damon Hill into putting an undeserved title fight together.
You wonder do you? What exactly are you wondering?
 
Yeah and it's gonna negatively impact Max in the long run, he's gonna get more and more spoiled and entitled which won't serve him well in title challenges.
He is going to cause much more dangerous collisions than yesterday if he is not managed correctly. Not blaming him for yesterday but he did contribute. He has form over the last few years.

Ask Raikonnen (Spa move was dangerous) or Vettel.
 
For my tuppence Hamilton overcooked the corner, was good value for his penalty and drove a fantastic race to claw back the victory. Similar could've happened in Spain with roles reversed though.
 
That they don’t want another mass riot on their hands with looting like your deranged fans carried on with at Wembley because they didn’t get their own way.
The Wembley aggro was caused by ticketless fans trying to storm into the stadium. To suggest that has any relevance to the stewards' decision yesterday is a new low even for this thread.
 
Two of the most respected drivers on the grid;

Leclerc: "It is a racing incident. It is quite difficult to put the blame on one or the other. There was space on the inside. Maybe Lewis was not completely at the apex but it is also true Max was quite aggressive on the outside. Things happen. The most important today is Max is unharmed and is fine."

Alonso: "Lewis had more than half a car alongside Max, so in a way Lewis could not disappear from that inside line. You can't vanish. So it was an unfortunate moment but nothing intentional and nothing that any of the two drivers did wrong."
 
The head of Aston Martin who are using which engines?
Show me one person outside of Red Bull who thinks the penalty was too soft.
:lol:

And you have the audacity to hang around in this thread calling people fanboys.
A fanboy is anybody who disagrees with their point of view.
It was their Senna and Prost moment. Verstappen knew he would be squeezing Hamilton, Hamilton knew the gap was going to disappear, and neither of them was going to back out the way a lesser driver would. They were testing each other and got too close.

It probably was a penalty simply because Hamilton ran wide and it's not possible to know if that was intentional or not. Not much in it though. In football terms giving/not giving a penalty would not be a clear and obvious error.
I think Hamilton ran wide because he didn’t want To end up in the wall. If he had taken the apex and Max had turned in there was no way he wasn’t ending up in the wall.
 
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You're exactly the kind of rabid fan boy you're calling out, at least in an anti Hamilton sense, and yet try to call yourself "a fan of racing over one team". It's hilarious.

At least the other "fanboys" you point out in the thread are honest enough to admit their bias.

It's cute that you've been so triggered by the word fanboy.

Seems the boot fits. Since you're dead set that every opinion you don't like must have come from someone with an agenda. "anti-hamilton fanboy"...... grow up.
 
Which couple of times. The fact is that it is the other way round.

Brazil 2019 and Austria 2020. Hamilton apologised both times. When Max is actually in the hospital, he doesn't even apologise. I say this as someone who grew to respect Hamilton a lot over the past few years, but the way Lewis handled the celebrations yesterday just didn't sit right with me.
 
It's cute that you've been so triggered by the word fanboy.

Seems the boot fits. Since you're dead set that every opinion you don't like must have come from someone with an agenda. "anti-hamilton fanboy"...... grow up.

You're unbelievable. You're among the most childish people in this thread, and telling others to grow up. And you're accusing me in bold of exactly what you're guilty of.

I don't mind you being against Hamilton, just be mature enough to own up to it, and when you're disagreeing with his fans, attack the message rather than the messenger. Instead you dismiss them as "fanboys" whilst being no better yourself.

As for me, if I am a "fanboy" of anyone, it would be Norris, I think he's brilliant.
 
He is going to cause much more dangerous collisions than yesterday if he is not managed correctly. Not blaming him for yesterday but he did contribute. He has form over the last few years.

Ask Raikonnen (Spa move was dangerous) or Vettel.

Yeah he's been enabled by drivers not standing up to him - if Lewis stands his ground more we're gonna see a lot more incidents like this unless he reigns it in! RB will continue to treat him like a spoiled golden child, so it's hard to see where any positive role modelling will come from.
 
Nice to see people realising it's just a racing incident now.

I think the error came where Max thinks Lewis will back out, Lewis thinks Max will back out.

Neither did.
 
Max gets plenty of plaudits for his aggressive driving and even though I am not a fan of the actual person he is purely as a driver he's phenomenal, i actually think the reason he has been so successful this year is that with maturity and now experience he has eliminated a lot of his rash decision making which caused so many pointless crashes for the years previous,

However yesterday's race he just lost his cool and knew Hamilton was going to take him and was driving like a mad man to try and prevent it and ultimately paid the price,

Do you think a 7 times world champion is going to pull out of a 50/50 with him and risk letting him win the race ? hell no, why would he, Max is used to usually getting his way and if it was Leclerc, Lando, Russel, any of the younger less experienced guys they would have swerved and let Max get ahead, but Max forgot who he was fighting yesterday, Lewis isn't the greatest ever F1 driver for no reason, he's had many a battle in the past and is extremely experienced, Max needs to learn from yesterday, not throw his toys out the pram because he played a game of chicken and lost.

If he was smart he would have played the game and let Hamilton through, Max had a lot less to lose than Lewis, and now due to his own rashness has allowed Lewis right back into the championship.

Max is only angry at himself deep down, he knows he screwed up.
 
Max gets plenty of plaudits for his aggressive driving and even though I am not a fan of the actual person he is purely as a driver he's phenomenal, i actually think the reason he has been so successful this year is that with maturity and now experience he has eliminated a lot of his rash decision making which caused so many pointless crashes for the years previous,

However yesterday's race he just lost his cool and knew Hamilton was going to take him and was driving like a mad man to try and prevent it and ultimately paid the price,

Do you think a 7 times world champion is going to pull out of a 50/50 with him and risk letting him win the race ? hell no, why would he, Max is used to usually getting his way and if it was Leclerc, Lando, Russel, any of the younger less experienced guys they would have swerved and let Max get ahead, but Max forgot who he was fighting yesterday, Lewis isn't the greatest ever F1 driver for no reason, he's had many a battle in the past and is extremely experienced, Max needs to learn from yesterday, not throw his toys out the pram because he played a game of chicken and lost.

If he was smart he would have played the game and let Hamilton through, Max had a lot less to lose than Lewis, and now due to his own rashness has allowed Lewis right back into the championship.

Max is only angry at himself deep down, he knows he screwed up.

I think if it was Hamilton last year, he would have given way and let Max keep the lead. It's different this year as Hamilton has to fight for every scrap so is going to go for the risks where he could afford not to before. Verstappen has to realise that now and learn that he's going against a different style now.

Some of it is experience though. When people were saying Verstappen was dangerous he was just a young driver used to pushing the limits and forcing drivers out of the way. Hamilton did the same early in his career. It's the blend of experience and talent which makes the driver - Hamilton goes for less overtakes than he did when young but gets more points due to attacking when he feels it's right to.
 
Max gets plenty of plaudits for his aggressive driving and even though I am not a fan of the actual person he is purely as a driver he's phenomenal, i actually think the reason he has been so successful this year is that with maturity and now experience he has eliminated a lot of his rash decision making which caused so many pointless crashes for the years previous,

However yesterday's race he just lost his cool and knew Hamilton was going to take him and was driving like a mad man to try and prevent it and ultimately paid the price,

Do you think a 7 times world champion is going to pull out of a 50/50 with him and risk letting him win the race ? hell no, why would he, Max is used to usually getting his way and if it was Leclerc, Lando, Russel, any of the younger less experienced guys they would have swerved and let Max get ahead, but Max forgot who he was fighting yesterday, Lewis isn't the greatest ever F1 driver for no reason, he's had many a battle in the past and is extremely experienced, Max needs to learn from yesterday, not throw his toys out the pram because he played a game of chicken and lost.

If he was smart he would have played the game and let Hamilton through, Max had a lot less to lose than Lewis, and now due to his own rashness has allowed Lewis right back into the championship.

Max is only angry at himself deep down, he knows he screwed up.

Such a typical entitled Englishman. Views like that are why no one supported England in the Euros… :lol::rolleyes:
 
Such a typical entitled Englishman. Views like that are why no one supported England in the Euros… :lol::rolleyes:
Very strange response to a perfectly rational post.

I agree re: England support at the Euros by the way, but this post is not that.
 
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Very strange response to a perfectly rational post.

I agree re: England support at the Euros by the way, but this post is not that.
I'm not even English ffs :lol::lol::lol: what a mess, are you dutch by any chance ?

Sarcasm doesn’t work on the internet, I thought the smiley face was enough! I was basically accused of the same thing yesterday.