F1 2021 Round 10 : Silverstone

Fully expected British broadcasters to do this tbh. Home driver in the home race, there was no way they were going to dwell on the incident. Put on the BBCs F1 podcast this afternoon and had to turn it off pretty much immediately, how great was it to see a British driver wave a British flag in front of a British crowd, incident wasnt really that controversial etc.

Maybe it's worse for us as we consume our coverage from the UK - RTE would probably be similar if it was an Irish driver and an Irish race.

I do think his flag waving celebrations were completely cringeworthy though, kind of like how I feel for Ireland when McGregor opens his mouth.

I for sure will go back and look, cause I honestly can’t remember specifics of them! However, none of that changes the fact it was on Lewis to back out yesterday and he didn’t…. The fact he’s backed out before when he may have been in the right has nothing to do with any of it.

Are we talking about the overtakes from the start of the race? Barcelona was the very definition of what Totos email was about. Maxs front wing was slightly behind Lewis going into the turn, but as Max had the inside at the apex the corner was his.

Imola also, they are far more wheel to wheel than they are at Silverstone. Both are below:

Barcelona:

Imola:

Apologies if there's other ones you're looking at - these are the ones I remember.

Not claiming that Max is a saint at all either! But there is a noticeable difference between these and yesterdays attempts.

I just hope Max wins, handily, at the upcoming Dutch GP, and he does the EXACT same thing. 😉

Oh Lewis...I fully agree with you.

The cool thing about the sport these days is that the whole radio gets recorded and posted on youtube everytime.....in this case it shows that Hamilton asked was Max ok just after the race gets red flagged on his way to the pits!

How cool is that?

Part human part fish.... takes the bait and gets caught everytime.

...but sure that's racing drivers for you. Among sportspeople they must rank as being some of the most selfish. Could you imagine the likes of Alonso, Raikonnen, Perez, Vettel or even Max himself immediately on the radio enquiring about the welfare of a rival who has ended up in the barriers?

its the team thats wrong.

they shold have told hamilton that max was in hospital and to act acordingly.

he could have celebrated by mentioned how dangerous racing is and praised all the work the engineers do that allow them to race and be as safe.

then wish max a speedy recovery and be able to race next time out

You mean like Grosjean? Every driver was enquiring about his safety, Charles in particular was shook up about it. No driver is selfish to the point that they don't care if their rivals are injured or killed and I hope no formula1 fan is either.

Sorry about that... you're right. Even looks a bit like him.

While I do think the 10s penalty wasn't severe enough, I think anyone saying Hamilton did this on purpose is bonkers. They were going 160MPH+, there's no way Hamilton could take Max out and know he wouldn't take himself out. The cars are so fragile I just don't think it's possible. As was said earlier in the thread, if the championship points were reversed I'd say maybe since it would benefit Hamilton to take them both out, but at those speeds anything could happen. There's as much chance of Hamilton doing damage to his own car as there was Max's. As much as I don't like Hamilton I'd also like to believe he's not going to purposely put another driver in a wall at those speeds.

I'd call it careless/dangerous driving.

I still think Max will win the championship. He and the RB have the better of Hamilton and Merc. He might have caught up a little this week but it's likely, in my opinion, that Max will win out in a majority of the remaining races.

Delighted to see LeClerc on the podium, fantastic race. I honestly thought Hamilton was letting him lead to begin with to avoid the possibility of another crash and taking himself or both out. Managing to hold Hamilton off for so long was great driving. If Ferrari can kick on next year we should see him win a few more.

I've just learned from elsewhere it was actually the medical helicopter, which is a bit ironic.

As far as I know the TV helicopter pilot is trained to keep their downdraft off the track, understandable that the medical pilot was overlooked but I'm sure they'll be briefed in future.

Think it's slightly outside the FAI's remit 🤣

Just my view and I'm slightly conflicted on it , I used to love in the 80's when things like this happened and you'd see drivers racing (running) back to the pits to get the 3rd car it was all part of the excitement for me , seeing mercedes bandage up the car is not exciting but if the bandaged up the car and had to start from the pit and then take a 10sec penalty on their next stop well that might work.

This mostly comes down to a racing incident from driver mis-judgement , as good as a driver as Hamilton is he is not great at these close battles at best of times as we've seen especially drawn out over a good few corners ,Max is a better but does take more risks at times so still causes crashes ,think the rules need to change for these instances somewhat ,in that a if a race is red flagged like the weekend then no work should be done on a car unless deemed otherwise dangerous by the race stewards ,i.e flat mangled tire hanging of nose wing etc. and maybe a pit start if you have to rechange.

The bigger problem for me is not the penalty that was issued* if it was a stop go then you have to do it within 2-3 laps but the 10secound penalty can be taken at the next stop or if close to the end of the race added to your time this is nonsensical as the penalty can be managed away some what with race progression by the time Lewis had to take it the field was spread out and penalty somewhat mitigated.

I think this is were motogp have been clever they have a longer lap for penalties so just say you get a 5 second penalty then you have to do this extra stretch of lap within 2 laps and complete you penalty 10 seconds do it back to back. I know its probably not doable on some circuts but the timed penalty is a bit of a farce really.

He’s creating his own comically evil character all by himself with his actions in this race and previous ones. Couple that with how fake he comes across it’s not hard to see how people have lost the rag on this one.

He has to be the most insincere person on the planet.

I haven’t once accused him of trying to kill Max.

But could it have been a byproduct of his careless driving I’d suggest yes.

Ultimately he got over racey in a place he shouldn’t have.

Would Max have attempted the same? Maybe but on this occasion it was Hamilton.

Any actual F1 fan can see what happened here.

The racism that followed was bonkers.

The calls of unsportsmanlike etc though were spot on.

Going to be an interesting end to the season that’s for sure.

Both will have their elbows out now.

Both will need their second driver helping them.

For that reason I’d say Hamilton will be an 8 time champ at the end of all of this.

If I didn’t despise him so much I’d have a flutter on him. Someone said he was 3/1 !! Those odds are insane.

Decent post,this place can be odd as fcuk with the hate dished out on trivial things,cant attack his car or skill then they go after his clothes or him being insecere,as a fan of the sport and not any particular team/drivers it hilarious watching the lengths some go to!

You see, I prefer to visit the motorsport boards to discuss things like "great drive by LeClerc" "Oh look Mazepin has spun again", "Lando is owning Ricciardo right now", "I wonder where Russell is driving next year" and not rubbish like "I hate that fooking woke monkey and heres why everyone on Boards should do too"

I was proud that F1 fans don't go down to the murky levels of England football fan haters, that Lewis and Max fans could mix together in Silverstone safely and have a ball.

That pride has been shattered this week. 🙁