F1 2021 Round 14: Monza

I think the right rear wheel of the Red Bull would not have hit the head of Hamilton in any event given his sitting position in the cockpit, Halo or not. It was the engine cover of the Merc that bore the major impact and, given the structural integrity of the cars this would not collapse even given the weight of another vehicle landing on top of it. It was a relatively low speed incident which looked worse than it was. Hamilton was even attempting to reverse out from underneath.

That's utter nonsense. Total nonsense. Lewis puts max in the wall at 150 mph and gets a 10 second penalty and still wins.

This is BS.

How can the FIA give a 3 place penalty for that and a 10 second one for the Silverstone 51G crash? Utter shambles.

Sky raging all day now cause their golden boy crashed. Hamilton was trying to reverse the car when Max was getting out of his for **** sake.

Can Red Bull appeal?

Yes but rare that these decisions get overturned.

Well if he’s taking the three place drop might as well take the new engine/parts penalty too at the next races

Back of the grid.

5 place for the engine and additional places for other parts (excluding those needed for the new engine itself)

Might be wise to take the pen now! Starting 7th won’t have a much worse impact than 3rd if HAM is on pole! (Presuming Max gets pole)

They certainly do, I think I lasted longer watching Sky than others but I switched it off to avoid watching their glee - not before Hill said he thinks Max did it on purpose again but not intentionally (don't quote me on that)

Yeah you'd imagine red bull and max will change out whatever they can and start at the back of the grid.

It's not misleading at all, look at the green aero flap above the crowdstrike logo to the left of picture. It's broken and the tyre is pressing on the Halo. No Halo that's heading down onto Lewis.

Not too dissimilar pre Halo incident here.

The 2 points could be very decisive at the end of the season.

My 2 cents is that Max was slightly more at fault, he has a tendency to charge into duels like that, though he has calmed down a lot in the last couple of years. But overall to me it's a standard racing incident between two drivers who weren't going to give each other space because of their position in the championship.

The punishment becomes harsh when you look at the incident in Silverstone. The punishments are not proportionate.

I don't get why people are complaining that Max didn't ask Lewis how he was, Lewis was obviously OK as he was trying to reverse out of there.

I also think that the decision may well have been influenced by comments that the stewards heard on Sky. If it was Italian or German TV commenting they wouldn't pick it up, but they would pick up an english language one easily enough.

Next question is if Lewis is OK, a god whack on the back or head can take a good few hours to start troubling them. He might not experience pain walking around, but once he's back in the car and hitting major G-forces then it could come back. Anyway he has the best part of 2 weeks to recover.

The last few races could be very saucy, maybe a replay of Senna v Prost?

The points are on his license and not deducted from the championship so shouldn’t matter as it’s his first 2 of the season.

I think this image may have swayed the steward's. There's zero reason for max to be turning his wheel to the right like that.