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What is wrong with lifting off on the racing line if you have been told let someone pass?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Magnusson
If DC had pulled over, just as MS was trying a move, there still would have been a crash.
MS was WAY in the lead, and did not need to be impatient.
DC was adamant that he had no fault at first , calling Michael dangerous , and Michael took a lot of stick for the incident .Quote:
Originally Posted by SGWilko
It took years for him to admit he was in the wrong .
DC lifted on , not off the racing line . Had MS not seen him at the last moment , and turned away , there would have been much more carnage than just a wheel torn off both cars .
You are defending an action that has been admitted as wrong .
Finally someone with balls.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
That is the crux of the issue, visibility was that bad that MS should have given DC (or at least a spray tail) a VERY wide birth, he just plunged into the unknown due to the spray, and could see nothing until he was on top of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
A bit like AS rear ending MB back in whenever.......
The "crux" was that DC had slowed .Quote:
Originally Posted by SGWilko
Had DC been at racing speed , MS would have followed him around the corner as normal with no issue .
DC lifted and stayed on the racing line , causing the surprise for MS . Rather than "plunging into the unknown" , he was racing in the rain .
DC feels he made a mistake . I agree , and I'm glad he cleared it up , even though it took a long time to do so .
I hope it doesn't take you much longer .
I am quite happy with the notion that, after his accident with Alonso at Nurbugring, Coulthard saw the similarities with the MS thing, and admitted it was just as much his fault.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
The point I am labouring here to make is that, if you are going to overtake someone, you don't or should not expect them to make it piss easy for you, you should move off the racing line to complete the pass, not the other way round?
As it was, DC was 'playing the team game' and trying to keep MS at bay, in his frustration MS forgot that he was not driving a wacky racers car that would go up on stilts so he could overtake without passing.
Now, IF it had been communicated to MS that DC was going to move over, then that is a different matter, I do not know what was said to either driver on the radios at the time.
Had DC agreed to move over, or slow down. What was MS told?
Does anyone know?
MS expected DC to have slowed off-line .
That is and was patently obvious .
That being so , and DC now apparently understanding so , shows that MS was acting as if DC was moving off-line to the left .
He was being lapped and so , keeping "MS at bay" was not an option .
Read the rules about how backmarkers have to behave when the clearly faster leaders catch up with them and than we shall talk!Quote:
Originally Posted by SGWilko
Yep, cause we aren't keen on waiting 5 years!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
Radio communications do not make the rules in F1, DC didn't play by the rules then and there. Was it because he was ordered to interfere as much as possible with MS' race or because hes ego couldn't take the humiliation of being lapped during one of his "years"?!Quote:
Originally Posted by SGWilko
Makes no difference to the fact he made a huge mistake almost as big as when he crashed into the pit entry wall while trying to decide if he should go left or right! :rolleyes: