Quote Originally Posted by denkimi View Post
While i agree that other may have done the same thing, slowing down shifting down 3 gears clearly shows the only thing he was trying to do at that moment was stay behind verstappen till after the DRS line.

Remember, verstappen was obliged to let hamilton pass. It was hamilton refusing to pass and extremely close behind who created the dangerous circumstance in the first place.

As i said before, the should be a rule that if you are given the chance to pass and you refuse to do so, you lose that chance.
You forget Hamilton had no idea what Verstappen was doing. He did not receive the information of Verstappen giving up the lead until the instant after the crash. There is no way he would have known what Vewrstappen was thinking. He did what he felt was the cautious thing to do, l felt.

But one thing remains clear, both men wanted to benefit from the situation somehow. I can see how a slipstream after that DRS line would be greatly beneficial for Hamilton. One scenario is that he may have used the slipstream to pass Verstappen at the corner. And use the DRS to put some distance between himself and Verstappen on the straight after the corner. So you can see why Vderstappen was frustrated that he has been caught in a potentially tricky situation. His only real way out was to force Hamilton to overtake before the DRS line so that he can have the DRS for himself. the frustration developed into anger as the DRS got ever so closer and he was running out of options.

So he jumped on the brake with the hope of either forcing Hamilton to pass or disrupting him in such a way as to give him a chance to get out of the tricky situiation.