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17th September 2017, 17:11 #71
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"The Stewards consider that no driver was found to have been wholly or predominantly to blame for the incident and will therefore take no further action."
No surprise that they came to this conclusion with Vettel and Ferrari involved.
FIA=Ferrari International Assistance!Last edited by The Black Knight; 17th September 2017 at 17:20.
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17th September 2017, 17:34 #72
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I think anyone who says that Vettel is 100% responsible for the crash should watch all 3 onboards and the offboard cameras again shot by shot.
My view of the accident:
Kimi has a brilliant start, goes into the inside of Max. Seb has a bad start, starts pulling to the inside at increasing angles. Max starts moving inside at the same time as Seb, leaving lots of room on his right. Max therefore kind of misses Kimi, or misjudges the speed difference (as he weaves a bit when Kimi arrives next to him). By that time Seb has closed Max completely down (using all the room available to him) and Max has no room to get further away from Kimi and catches his rear right tire. What I mean is that Max DID NOT go left to avoid contact with Seb as the distance to Seb was bigger than the distance to Kimi. I have seen some people saying that Kimi was closing down on Max but looking at his onboard then it is the opposite.
If you analyse every move by itself then all of them are completely legit. Max pushing Kimi would be 100% fine without Seb pushing Max and vice-versa.
Overall i think 3 completely legit moves but when executed at the same time ended very unfortunately.
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17th September 2017, 17:45 #73
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Its a long race You are set in a Red car that showed its pace the day before .You don't get off the line as well as you should ,there is 61 laps to go ,its raining WHY be hair brained and squeeze Max and take your team mate out ? Selfish !!! You reap what you sow !
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17th September 2017, 19:04 #74
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The point here is what could either Kimi or Max have done differently to avoid a collision? Answer - absolutely nothing! Max's jink left coincides with just after Vettel's first move left. But neither Max's moves or Kimi's initiated the crash. It is all caused by Vettel needlessly cutting across the track.
Vettel was to blame but, in this case, I don't believe there was any intent. I don't believe he should be punished further simply because of that. But he was still at fault. Twas a stupid thing to do and with such a long race to go - complete insanity!
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17th September 2017, 19:10 #75
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17th September 2017, 19:20 #76
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For my driver of the day, I'm going to nominate Nico Hulkenberg. He had a damn good try at avoiding that ignominious record. Got into 3rd place and at that stage of the race, he was more than a second a lap faster than anyone else on wets, and also faster than all the inter runners bar Hamilton and Ricciardo. If not for the strategy error and the unreliability, I think he might have held on to that podium position.
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17th September 2017, 19:34 #77
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Yes, I agree that at the point of the accident, there was no reasonable way out for Max. But on the other side, my whole point was that He wasnt in that position because he was forced there by Vettel "pushing" him, but put himself in that position with the intent to "push" Kimi. So if one was to say Vettel's "push" was unnecessary, then so was Verstappen's. If you look it like that then Vettel used all the room available to him, as is fair but Verstappen also needed that same room to escape the bad position he had put himself in before he was aware of Vettel's move. And I think it would require too much of a driver to read that kind of situation in the split second that was available (if Vettel even saw Kimi there).
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17th September 2017, 19:45 #78
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its is so sad that I am not surprised by the FIA's action. It really is a somewhat biased system.
If it was anyone but the Ferrari driver they would be tripping over themselves to hand out a penalty for unnecessary and dangerous driving.
At the very least penalty points.
This was not even close to a "racing incident"
It was very clear that vettel initiated the calamity by blindly and foolishly swerving to the left. His move made no sense whatsover and ended up causing his retirement and 3 other cars.
All because he made a slow start and desperately tried to win the race on lap 1 in damp conditions/ SMH
I feel bad for Vestappen, kimi and especially Alonso who made an incredible start.
oh well. On to Malaysiayou can't argue with results.
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17th September 2017, 19:51 #79
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDu4...=youtu.be&t=24
Pretty compelling evidence that Seb orchestrated the accident. He probably never saw Kimi!May the forza be with you
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