Quote Originally Posted by denkimi View Post
I blame hamilton here too. But that was a 300km/h accident, while this is a 50km/h accident.

The main issue here is that verstappens car got launched in the air, without that they would have just banged wheels and nothing terrible would have happened. This was not bad enough anyone a penalty, just a freak incident.

Had either of them known how it would end, they would have backed off.

And please look again at the video's. At the moment they touched they where next to each other. They touched rear to rear. In silverstone hamilton was clearly begind, that was front to rear.
The speed of the corners are irrelevant.
In Silverstone when they both committed to the corner Hamilton was only a couple of inches from being fully alongside. It was the speed differential throughout the corner which caused the cars to touch in different parts in Silverstone. When Max committed today he was further back than Lewis was at Silverstone. He should not have committed or else he should have gone over the chicane when he saw the door closing. By the time they were nearly side by side today there was no chance Max was making that corner. At any point Max could have backed out, at no point could Lewis have done much different. In fact I think Lewis actually moved slightly right to avoid Max once his car started oscillating as at that point he probably knew what was going to happen.

Both are either a racing incident or it was Lewis fault in Silverstone and Max's fault today.