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SmallTown said:
Crowd was half the size for that
That was an epic race. So much respect for Lewis. Especially making the move on Leclerc at Copse. That’s takes guts after what happened on lap one.
You can see that one meant a lot to Lewis too
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Like I said, I don’t measure the size of a sporting event purely on attendance. The Euros final is the biggest event since the pandemic in this country by a long, long way.


Hamilton was excellent.
 
For me this is an accident that has been waiting to happen for about 5 or 6 races. Verstappen has been ultra aggressive, totally unyielding, at times dangerous. He has persistently weaved down straight, pushing the laws to the very edge of acceptability. Said to my son a couple of races ago it's gonna end in trouble.

I think the facts are that if they didn't touch, Lewis comes out of that corner ahead, the penalty was very harsh on him.
 
Agree, this was bound to happen. I think Max has believed that Lewis would always back out (as he has done several times). The way Max was driving on the lap up to the collision/incident was stretching the laws to the extreme. This was always going to happen it was just a question of when, how hard and who loses. Lewis chose where he had the advantage and Max instead of backing off just assumed that Lewis would. I think the penalty was rather unjustified though I suppose that Max was already serving his penalty.

The main thing is that Max was unhurt. Walking, albeit limping, away from a 51G impact is pretty unbelievable.
 
When you are in a dominant position, as Lewis has been for the past however many years, it makes sense to minimise risk. Perhaps you cede a single place in the knowledge that it will come to you later in the race, you will have another chance, and, if not, you go into the next race the favourite to win once again. You can see this reflected in Lewis driving style compared to his earlier years, and his consistency in finishing in the points over this dominant run. He has been extremely lenient in many recent battles, but has always won the war.

Conversely, Max, as challenger during this time, came equipped with a very aggressive, unyielding style.

Going into today these roles were reversed. Hamilton, as challenger, reverted to a more aggressive style. Max, in the ascendancy, should have realised the position he was in, the importance of merely finishing second if not first, and adapted.
He did not.
If roles were reversed, Hamilton would have ceded, as he has done many times previous. And that is the difference between a seven time world champion and a mere contender.
If it ends up costing max the championship, which I hope it does not, he will have no one but himself to blame.
 
Today's events will definitely spice up the rest of the season.

I'm sure Lewis has been in touch with Max privately.

Are Ferrari on the comeback trail? đź‘€
 
Block21 said:
Like I said, I don’t measure the size of a sporting event purely on attendance. The Euros final is the biggest event since the pandemic in this country by a long, long way.


Hamilton was excellent.
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Disagree. F1 is global. It only seemed bigger because we were in it.
Agreed though, Hamilton was epic. I actually quite like Horner normally but he’s such a sore loser.

saying “he put one of our guys in hospital” is over dramatising it somewhat
 
SmallTown said:
Disagree. F1 is global. It only seemed bigger because we were in it.
Agreed though, Hamilton was epic. I actually quite like Horner normally but he’s such a sore loser.

saying “he put one of our guys in hospital” is over dramatising it somewhat
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Nah it was bigger because it was bigger and it’s Football which is more watched and universally loved. A Euros final is bigger than a British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Horner seems a spoilt ****.
 
Randy said:
Today's events will definitely spice up the rest of the season.

I'm sure Lewis has been in touch with Max privately.

Are Ferrari on the comeback trail? đź‘€
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Ferrari shocked pretty much everyone here. The conventional wisdom is they don’t have the race pace. They can’t look after their tyres… cut to Leclerc basically deciding when to stop on his seemingly box fresh mediums
 
He's not exactly going to be thrilled about it though is he?

Bet it hurt a fair bit. To be fair to Lewis, Max would probably have made the exact same move if the roles were reversed.
 
BoroFur said:
He quite likes calling other drivers a pussy. He'll be shocked by this no doubt because we would have expected LH to back out like he has done previously. His Dutch fans on FB are apoplectic with rage. It's quite a funny read.
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He's starting to believe that he alone has the right to driving with aggression and all should yield. I like Verstappen but he has to learn that sometimes it's him that needs to back off. This was one of those times.
 
Has Max ever backed off in that sort of situation, ever. Lewis has been doing it all season as he decided he would come off worse. This time after backing out twice in the previous 20 seconds based on the corner, speed and him having the safer line he obviously felt not this time, he was proven right as Max’s usual unyielding attitude was his undoing
 
Some good discussion here.

first glad Max seems to be ok, hopefully he is just a bit bruised.

I have a few thoughts, I wonder if this will have an impact on the next close situation. Will max yield and be a bit more cautious compared to normal.

Next I was thinking about the knock on effect of today on Max’s car, for sure a new gearbox (penalty? Not sure of his gearbox cycle), second will there be power unit damage which could really hurt him over the course of the remaining races.
 
dnh81 said:
Some good discussion here.

first glad Max seems to be ok, hopefully he is just a bit bruised.

I have a few thoughts, I wonder if this will have an impact on the next close situation. Will max yield and be a bit more cautious compared to normal.

Next I was thinking about the knock on effect of today on Max’s car, for sure a new gearbox (penalty? Not sure of his gearbox cycle), second will there be power unit damage which could really hurt him over the course of the remaining races.
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Honda will just bring out a “reliability” fix that also mysteriously increases horsepower! But in fairness no it’ll all be fine. Red bull are big enough to fix this, he was smart enough to crash pretty close to the factory. And there’s a two week turnaround before Hungary. If it had been a back to back weekend it would have been touch and go to get him medically cleared.
If that tweet is anything to go by he’s clearly taken quite a bump to the head
 
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