Quote Originally Posted by Bagwan View Post
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 .
true, Hamilton was trying to use the slipstream to slingshot pass Verstappen, just as Verstappen realized that the DRS detection point was fast approaching and needed to slow down. They were both playing games