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17th September 2017, 20:00 #81
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17th September 2017, 21:17 #82
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the only one who could have avoided the accident was verstappen. even though you can't put the blame on him, he chose not to brake but crash into raikkonen.
it's every time the same story. max doesn't really causes an accident, but he's always involved.
he will have to learn to assess when to back off if he wants to win more races.
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17th September 2017, 21:27 #83
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I'm sure braking in the middle of a straight when everyone else is pushing flat out is the way to avoid accidents.
If anyone is to blame here, is Vettel - after all, he's the one who squeezed Max into a non-existent gap. But I would actually put it down as a racing incident: driving towards another driver to cut him off is the kind of maneuver that we're used to seeing all the time in starts, only that in this particular instance Sebastian hasn't realized that Kimi was there. It was a sliver of bad judgment and a lot of bad luck.
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17th September 2017, 22:05 #84
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slightly letting go of the throttle would have been sufficient.
i agree that it is a racing incident and that nobody is really to blame, although vettel initiated it.
but i also believe that a more experienced, less aggressive driver would have avoided it by backing off a little.
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17th September 2017, 22:18 #85
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Really interesting how there are so many so different opinions on the incident as if everyone watched a different one.
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17th September 2017, 22:26 #86
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17th September 2017, 22:32 #87
I think some of you blaming Seb would be calling it completely different if Seb was Lewis... and let's not forget how bad visibility can be in the wet and how quickly these things can happen in such instances.
I think the Stewards called it absolutely spot on for a change. 100% Racing incident... blaming any single driver would have been massively wrong.
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18th September 2017, 01:14 #88
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18th September 2017, 03:03 #89
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18th September 2017, 03:15 #90
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Max had room to go straight. He was trying to cut off Kimi after Max's bad start and hit him instead.
" Lady - I'm in an awful dilemma.
Moe - Yeah, I never cared much for these foreign cars either."
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Did Jan Solans get 3 points for his 8th place at the end of saturday? Wikipedia and WRC site shows he didn't, eWRC shows he did.
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