Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
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.
Well, he slowed down 3 gears and kept it right under verstappens rear wing. I can think of any reason to do that except for trying to stay behind untill they passed the drs line.

Even though hamilton might have not been informed by radio, he must have had a pretty good idea of what was happening. He might not have expected verstappen to be stupid enough to actually brake, but he must have known verstappen would have to let him pass at some point. And he must have known verstappen would most likely try to do that near some drs line.

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.
that seems pretty clear, no?
verstappen wanted hamilton to pas him before the line so he would get drs, and hamilton didn't want to pas before the line to get drs. max was indeed frustrated, got stupid and braked. but hamilton was equally careless by staying this close so he had no time to react.

but that caused a situation where both were driving very slowly where they should have been flatout, which creates a dangerous situation, especially at a blind track like jeddah. i feel there needs to be some rule to regulate this kind of overtakes, to avoid such situations.