F1 2021 Round 10 : Silverstone

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.

Hamilton was definitely at fault here, though off course I don’t believe that he was there to deliberately bump off max - I don’t think he would have wanted to take a chance on getting his own car damaged. He seemed just a tad bit desperate to get past Max on that lap itself, knowing it might be difficult to do it later on. I also feel that the penalty should have been a StopGo one to be taken immediately, the 10 sec one was a bit lenient seeing that he had already got his car repaired during the red flag session which was also an advantage in a way.

But apparently FIA explained that the penalty is based on the incident itself and not the consequence of the incident as explained in the link.

"He wasn't seen as wholly to blame for it but he was seen as predominantly to blame. He could have tucked in further and that could have changed the outcome but we don't know, we judge it on the incident itself."

"So when they are judging incidents, they judge the incident itself and the narrative of the incident and not what happens afterwards as a consequence.”

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!

Been involved in many 51G crashes yourself?

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. 🙁

The punishment didn't fit the crime though. I've said it before, some people have blinkers on when looking at what happened. Honestly think some posters on here watched a different race and most of them were Lewis fans!

I can't quote what isn't there, and there has been no discussion about anything else except Lewis, OK the monkey term wasn't from boards it was from the comments section of Max's instagram post where it garnered 7k likes before a moderator quietly took it down.

Hate has won here. People are following Formula1 purely to hate Hamilton and they're succeeding in dragging all formula one fans with them.

Lewis needs to withdraw from the championship and move to Indycar as soon as possible.

There has been plenty of discussion but seeing as it was the main incident in the race what do you expect people to talk about, strange post

You can't quote it but can talk about it. While complaining about people dragging down the discussion. When its only YOU discussing it.

Ah yeah, sure the stewards never got anything wrong did they. That's fine above but to me it still didn't and some of their decisions have left fans and commentators scratching their head in previous occasions. As for the incident that Hamilton was 'predominantly' at fault for it send Max in to a wall. This is the incident not the aftermath. Of course Michael Masi is going to come out and defend the decision, never expected otherwise.