F1 2021 Round 10 : Silverstone

Hmm, you are choosing to disregard the present fact that Max turned out to give Hamilton room and instead are looking to the past to suit the narrative.

There's very little credibility to be gained when justifying something by those means.

Maybe they felt he wouldn't get to the end with decent tyres. He was on mediums when he pitted

I thought this was interesting, some examples from earlier in the season near the end

Verstappen now knows that Hamilton is willing to kill him on the track.

How do you deal with a crazy unhinged psychopathic nutcase like Hamilton.

"That's nonsense. Hamilton celebrating while Max is in hospital is not a lack of respect."

Kneeling like crazy for some random person killed by police in USA but not giving a fox about other driver he caused into deadly dangerous accident minutes ago?

This is not a driver or even decent person behavior. And I am not allowed to say here what it is for me..

Tsunoda crossed a white line twice which amounted to a 10 second penalty... a white line...

Cars going at high speed and skipping over the gravel trap, like a stone on water, slowing down very little isn't anything new - it is actually the reason why newer tracks (and those which have been heavily modified) have tarmac runoff areas.

There was a study promoted by the FIA through the 90s about it - most of the experimentation was carried out in Paul Ricard, which at the time was conveniently unused (and the property of Bernie Ecclestone).

Lets rewind slightly.

instarted watching this sport when I was around 10 years of age or so.

That was roughly 30 years ago.

I watched it because it was so unpredictable.

Cars failed and crashes happened regularly.

Now all we have is self righteous person winning 99% of races and the 1% he was bettered on he takes the other driver out.

I still can’t believe the penalty. How can a driver who single handidly took out the car on pole win?? It’s seriously fucked up.

A serious rule change is needed right now.

Two issues with today for me. There’s no disputing who was right or wrong in that collision. That the FIA handed out a penalty, and the opinion of F1 commentators who were drivers in their day saying it was Lewis’ fault speaks for itself.

But the bigger issue is the penalty awarded and its manifest insufficiency in today’s circumstances. For Hamilton to be able to recover from that and still win after the collision is indicative of that.

Remember Baku 2017 after Lewis brake tested Vettel who incurred the wrath of the stewards for a slow speed banging of wheels with Hamilton, and was given a 10sec stop and go penalty. How, after tipping you opponent into hospital following a 50g 160mph shunt, you get a lighter penalty than that in Baku is utterly shocking. The FIA need to explain this.

I think it all comes back to the penalty not actually penalising the driver that was found guilty of the infringement.

Instead they actually benefit significantly from the incident.

How anyone can say that because you think Hamilton should have gotten a sterner penalty makes you "salty" or "cringey" really worries me for those peoples mental state.

Yes, it was racing. But you put your competitor into the way, at 51G, into hospital and then celebrate is like it was some sort of hellish mountain you climbed? Is this the "still I rise" mantra he needs to feel justified?

Hope Max and RB stick it to Merc now and destroy them in the remaining races. I love good hard racing, but the hypocrisy on show today from Merc, Hamilton was laughable. If the roles were reversed, Toto would have turned inside out from the frustration.

Benefiting as well from an incident you caused over the red flag is flat out wrong. Change that rule, now.