#12944745, By Robospud Motorsport

Robospud 30 Jul 2021 09:30:24 169 posts
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monkman76 wrote:
I don't accept that Verstappen's only options were a) continue on the same line leading to contact or b) go as wide as Leclerc did. Leclerc had a massive oversteer moment that he had to correct. To avoid contact, Max would probably have had to concede one place to Lewis, but I think he could have only gone very slightly wide (without the kick of oversteer like Leclerc) and tucked back in behind Lewis. As I said earlier, if it had panned out that way, Lewis may well have been asked to give the position back for forcing the other driver off the track.

Anyway it's a bit daft that we're still discussing it. It was seriously unlucky for Max but that's sport isn't it.

The thing is that Max did go as wide as Leclrec did - at the point of contact he was on exactly the same line (but travelling more slowly than Charles so he likely would have made the corner) - the only difference is that Lewis made the corner when overtaking Charles and he was miles away from getting near the apex when overtaking Max.

The fault of this is 100% Lewis. Max was comfortably the leading car. He left well over a cars width of space for Lewis. This was absolutely the most generous you could possibly reasonably expect. Lewis tried to take the corner at an angle such that he was never going to actually make the corner without hitting Max. There is only so much evasive action you can take when the car behind dives in at that angle and clips your rear tyre.