#12944626, By Robospud Motorsport

Robospud 30 Jul 2021 00:40:30 169 posts
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muddyyfunster wrote:
Max is young, it's the first time he's properly been in the title fight. Hamilton wasn't able to detach from it at his age and gave a lot of sulky interviews.

I'm not seeing the signs that Max's learnt anything from what happened. Maybe he genuinely hasn't or maybe he has and it's just pride/ego/toxic team culture that means he can't outwardly acknowledge that he really didn't have to take that risk.

He's still the favourite, he's still got a points lead and the fastest machinery. Just needs to play the percentages from now on and it'll come to him.

I literally have no idea what Max could / should have learned from what happened? Even if you leave two cars widths for Hamilton to comfortably make the apex, he might still take you out so you better just jump off the track entirely?

Verstappen is the only driver on the grid who’s raced for the whole of the last twelve months and earned zero penalty points. His car positioning when fighting Hamilton was inch perfect, he gave more than enough room to Lewis. There are plenty of videos out there showing that his position on track was almost identical to Leclerc’s, the only difference being that Hamilton actually made the apex when racing Charles.

Max made a few mistakes when he was 17 / 18 years old but I honestly can’t remember the last time he’s been in an accident where any of the blame lay with him, it must be at least three years. His reputation is entirely a fiction made up by the reliably xenophobic UK media - similarly to how Vettel was the bad guy when he was a threat to Lewis but now he’s highly respected because he’s not directly racing him.

Edited by Robospud at 00:45:54 30-07-2021