2021 Race 10 - British Grand Prix

[Nitrodaze]

When it was Lewis and Leclerc , Lewis was farther in and on a better line to make the corner . That was what I saw as a fair one .


It was a stellar drive to come back after that , even if you can discount it to some degree being they have another gear .
It was still a good drive .

That is because Leclerc did not try to squeeze Hamilton going into the corner. Hamilton was able to take a better line through the corner.

The whole incident was brewing from the moment Hamilton tried to get alongside Verstappen. Verstappen did a small jig to the left then Hamilton duck in the right. Verstappen then chose to squeeze him into the wall as they approached the corner. The Verstappen realized that Hamilton was properly alongside him. He then made a small adjustment, which was purely to take a better line through the corner. But his trajectory was not to give Hamilton any room.

Now, from the tight corner of the track next to the wall, Hamilton's line through the corner was severely compromised. There was no way he would have been able to take the kerbs from where he was. His only available path was a slightly wider trajectory or slow to allow Leclerc to pass him. How, l see it, is Verstappen should have taken a wider trajectory to avoid the crash, since he has more to lose. But he was expecting Hamilton to chicken out of the attack. Hamilton on the other hand with one eye on Leclerc was expecting Verstappen to take a wider trajectory knowing that the squeeze was going to force him to miss the apex of the corner.

It was a racing incident from very hard arcing. This is what the show is about.