Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
It was established that the information that Verstappen was asked to give the place back to Hamilton had not reached Hamilton at the point when Verstappen was slowing down. Hence, he would not have known why Verstappen was slowing down. There might be a debris on the track for instance.

The slowing down was not the issue, it was the sudden braking that immediately followed that caused Hamilton to crash into the back of him. The braking was clear in the relative telemetry and the reason why he was found to be at fault.
Oh , gimme a break , dude .
He knew what Max was doing . He dropped 3 gears , when both of them should have been racing , instead of playing "silly-beggar" .

He drove right up behind him , so what do you think his message to Max was at that moment ?
He was telling Max he wasn't going to pass before that detection line .
He knew Max's game by then and being so tight that even he , a guy with the reflexes of an adrenaline-soaked cat , couldn't avoid a rapidly slowing car ahead just wasn't smart .

They were racing to slow down , and the guy behind is always going to hit the guy ahead in that scenario .

It was a ludicrous moment for F1 .

Max , for sure , should not have hit the brakes .
But , his instruction was to slow down and Let Lewis by .

Lewis should not have been that close behind , but was told that Max would let him by , not that he must pass .

So , you see , a stupid situation set up by stupid DRS rules .