Quote Originally Posted by The Black Knight View Post
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.
You do understand that lewis cannot be fully alongside when his front wheel hits max'es rear wheel?

And the speed of the corner is very relevant. In silverstone lewis knew that the only outcome would be a big crash. Today the outcome would have been wheels banging without damage in 99% of te cases. What we saw today was nothing out of the ordinary in racing terms, drivers bang wheels all the time. Only the outcome of this incident was a bit extreme, due to the lauching of the car.

To me both incidents were lewis fault. But today this was only a very minor incident, unfortunately with big consequences. Nobody should be punished here.