F1 2021 Season

I think you misunderstand F1 fans desire for fair racing and are confusing it with wanting the title to be decided by a penalty.

Of course, that sounds a lot better than just saying you want a race decided before it starts out of fear.

On the fair racing point though, I suspect a lot of people posting haven't actually watched any F1 out of the turbo-hybrid-Mercedes era. Because when there's two drivers in a proper title fight, it's never fair. Even the one proper title fight we had in that era, Rosberg vs Hamilton, was defined by dirty racing and bad luck.
 
Yeah his interview was ridiculous, you can see why Max is such a piece of work, just need to look at his boss.

at least he’s got his dad with him to fight the good fight and keep him on the straight and narrow.
 
Of course, that sounds a lot better than just saying you want a race decided before it starts out of fear.

On the fair racing point though, I suspect a lot of people posting haven't actually watched any F1 out of the turbo-hybrid-Mercedes era. Because when there's two drivers in a proper title fight, it's never fair. Even the one proper title fight we had in that era, Rosberg vs Hamilton, was defined by dirty racing and bad luck.
I've never seen anyone as dirty as Max at the top of F1. Michael was a saint in comparison. Max does an entire career's worth of dirty tricks in 3-4 races.
 
Of course, that sounds a lot better than just saying you want a race decided before it starts out of fear.

On the fair racing point though, I suspect a lot of people posting haven't actually watched any F1 out of the turbo-hybrid-Mercedes era. Because when there's two drivers in a proper title fight, it's never fair. Even the one proper title fight we had in that era, Rosberg vs Hamilton, was defined by dirty racing and bad luck.
It sounds better because its true.

I've been watching F1 for nearly 30 years. I have only been this disgusted with a driver when Schumacher took out Damon Hill. That was one incident, Max has a whole reel of equivalent incidents.

Such a shame because I want to like Max. Such a fast driver. But dirty.
 
Perez hasn't helped RB in the constructors over the course of the year, I'm surprised they've kept him on
 
I don’t see why the sky crew are so confused about why Hamilton didn’t go past?

Hamilton didn’t know Max was going to let him past. In that context it’s obviously confusing if the car in front is suddenly slowing down because you don’t know why. So you might be thinking something might have happened up the road? It’s not usual for a car to suddenly go slow, so without knowing he is letting you past, naturally you’d have no idea what was going on?

Exactly that.
We need to remember how low these drivers sit in the car.
It is now clear that Hamilton was completely unaware of why Verstappen was slowing and still had his car in the middle of the track.
Could have been anything in front.
And he said that he was trying to be careful.
To me, it does not look like Verstappen was deliberately 'brake testing Hamilton'.
But let's see what the Stewards decide.
 
I really don’t think Max tried to purposely cause a collision, but I’m not sure. Hamilton obviously didn’t because then both crashing out only costs him.

I really just think it was confusion. Without Hamilton knowing Max was letting him through you would naturally be totally confused what was going on. Tactics? Incident up ahead? Did Max have an issue? Could be anything, because without that information it was just not normal.

I would be interested in the telemetry though. I would say Max could have just moved out the way, but he veered into the middle and then side to side a bit. And I would want to know if he slammed the brakes there or not.
 
To me, it does not look like Verstappen was deliberately 'brake testing Hamilton'.

It clearly wasn't, because he gains nothing from brake testing him. Just as Hamilton had nothing to gain from hitting him. Max was expecting Lewis to know he was giving the place up and Lewis was just unaware because he hadn't been told.

But some people are far too rabid and bitter to understand that apparently.
 
Exactly that.
We need to remember how low these drivers sit in the car.
It is now clear that Hamilton was completely unaware of why Verstappen was slowing and still had his car in the middle of the track.
Could have been anything in front.
And he said that he was trying to be careful.
To me, it does not look like Verstappen was deliberately 'brake testing Hamilton'.
But let's see what the Stewards decide.

I don’t think so either. But he did slow down right before the accident. But not sure if that was Hamilton speeding up as he realised he was meant to go past as he was getting the message? Or did Max slow down? Unless telemetry says otherwise, I’d give Max the benefit here. It was just a confusing situation caused by bad information sharing with the race director. Massi by the way should be out of the job. It’s common sense to tell the following car before telling the leading car, for this exact reason.
 
I really don’t think Max tried to purposely cause a collision, but I’m not sure. Hamilton obviously didn’t because then both crashing out only costs him.

I really just think it was confusion. Without Hamilton knowing Max was letting him through you would naturally be totally confused what was going on. Tactics? Incident up ahead? Did Max have an issue? Could be anything, because without that information it was just not normal.

I would be interested in the telemetry though. I would say Max could have just moved out the way, but he veered into the middle and then side to side a bit. And I would want to know if he slammed the brakes there or not.
Tito said he'd seen the telemetry and Max braked, accelerated, braked, etc..
 
I really don’t think Max tried to purposely cause a collision, but I’m not sure. Hamilton obviously didn’t because then both crashing out only costs him.

I really just think it was confusion. Without Hamilton knowing Max was letting him through you would naturally be totally confused what was going on. Tactics? Incident up ahead? Could be anything, because without that information it was just not normal.

I would be interested in the telemetry though. I would say Max could have just moved out the way, but he veered into the middle and then side to side a bit. And I would want to know if he slammed the brakes there or not.
Max broke again to make sure that Lewis was in front of him at the DRS activation line. When he realised that that wasn't going to happen he sped back up.
 
It clearly wasn't, because he gains nothing from brake testing him. Just as Hamilton had nothing to gain from hitting him. Max was expecting Lewis to know he was giving the place up and Lewis was just unaware because he hadn't been told.

But some people are far too rabid and bitter to understand that apparently.
Max is ahead on points. Of course he gains, even if they both DNF or if Hamilton has to pit for a new wing.

That principle has been along way before the turbo hybrid era. Its a basic.
 
It clearly wasn't, because he gains nothing from brake testing him. Just as Hamilton had nothing to gain from hitting him. Max was expecting Lewis to know he was giving the place up and Lewis was just unaware because he hadn't been told.

But some people are far too rabid and bitter to understand that apparently.
Nothing apart from protecting his lead in the WC
 
Max broke again to make sure that Lewis was in front of him at the DRS activation line. When he realised that that wasn't going to happen he sped back up.
Yeah, I would like to think Max was just trying to slow down more to ensure he crossed the DRS line second, not to actually cause a collision. Ultimately, I’m finding it hard to blame either and instead think it was terrible communication from Massi - particularly the order of that communication.

But if Max did suddenly brake there, it would change my view a bit because you can’t just brake like that.
 
Looking at slow motion Max drifts into the middle of a very narrow section to "allow" Lewis by. It only opens up after contact. I suspect Lewis has no idea and was in the middle of planning his overtake and then attempted to slow but was too late. Dirty by Max, error by Lewis.

If you read your post, you will see that you have contradicted yourself.
Lewis has no idea....
Error by Lewis.
They can't both be correct.
 
Not sure I really understand why Hamilton would push for that point. It gets him level but only in a very very very rare and unlikely outcome would that point matter. It’s not like going even truly levels then because of race wins.