Re: There's a little bit of blame to spread around...

On 22/07/2024 9:49 pm, Yazoo wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:09:11 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

...but this one is mostly on Verstappen.
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Braking as late as that, he was never going to make it stick.
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This overhead does show Hamilton made a very early turn-in:
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<https://x.com/hammertimev/status/1815070122312147356>
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But the Verstappen was divebombing. Plain and simple.
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What's ironic is that if Hamilton had really understood how late
Verstappen started his braking, he could have just stayed out of the way
and he'd have stayed ahead of Verstappen anyway.

 Yes, I agree. It's easy for us later lamenting about such situations.
Drivers are focused on winning, so they tend not to let others
overtake them.
Thus, Hamilton closed the inner part of turn a bit, and Verstappen
tried to overtake with aggresive late break. So, they touched. How to
measure the blame? I don't know.
As Hamiltons supporter I would obviously be on the Verstappen's side
of blame, but honestly, it was a racing incident (Hamilton said that
after the race).
 

I though it was more of a cynical lunge, which would have ended with VER wide/off whatever HAM had done. Not quite as bad as the previous dodgems against NOR.
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