Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
That is not the point. The question is, was it a racing incident or not? I should not matter whether he is driving because Daddy's money bought the seat. If leave the prejudice of his money out of it, ordinarily, was it a punishable incident?

My argument is that Stroll and anyone else should be allowed to stick their elbows out in a duel for position. He took the long way round, but managed to get his car ahead before the point of collision. The collision happened as he was taking the racing line with half a car length ahead. Norris could have backed off to avoid a collision but decided to make it very difficult for Stroll. It was clearly a racing incident.
He assumed Norris would back out .
Had he left a few feet more room , with Norris compromised on a tighter line forced to go slower , he would have been golden .

Of course , with Lando protecting the outside , the move should have been inside , unless Lance was assuming that Norris would lurch right at the last moment .
But , in order to get to the point of assuming that Lando goes right , you'd have to try to prompt it with a "dummy" to get him moving .

But , he didn't .

Instead , he went left , onto the curbs , and compromised his own grip on entry , so , despite being 18kms faster going in , he broke his front wing on Norris's car .

Two bad assumptions as I see it .

I like Lance , but , though he really impresses me sometimes , he also makes me shake my head other times .
He wasn't being a tool , like Max in practice , but it wasn't pretty .