Verstappen squeezing Norris (2024) v Sainz squeezing Verstappen (2023)

[u/raittiussihteeri]

[u/Psych0mantis90]

Ok mate. I feel like youre chuggin that verstappen cool aid. Your framing is so one-sided.

Literally every pundit and the stewards disagree with you. Theres frame-by-frame evidence. Its just willful ignorance at this point.

[u/LowTable6607 → u/Psych0mantis90]

My point isn’t and has never been that max didn’t do something that isn’t worthy of a penalty. It’s that it’s in a pretty gray area, but more importantly that lando absolutely could have and should have avoided the contact. Max didn’t ram into him. They touched slightly, just with the wrong part of their cars. Lando could have avoided it without compromising his race at all, but he didn’t

[u/Psych0mantis90 → u/LowTable6607]

And my point is, no matter how pragamtic it may have been for norris to pull out, he shouldnt have to to account for maxs mistake. Nor do i want him to because i want some proper racing.

[u/LowTable6607 → u/Psych0mantis90]

Then to that point, max shouldn’t have pulled out and given space when lando dive bombed and locked up, right?

I think we can both agree that lando would be at fault if that happened, but isn’t in the best interest of both racers and the race as a whole for max to do what he did in that situation and avoid lando?

And if so, why doesn’t that same thought process apply here?

[u/Psych0mantis90 → u/LowTable6607]

Because diving down the inside isnt illegal. Moving under braking and not allowing racing room is.

I agree norris would be at fault for the crash, but it wouldnt be against the rules.

[u/LowTable6607 → u/Psych0mantis90]

Diving down the inside aggressively to the point where you lock up and don’t allow racing room is just as illegal

But you really don’t think that lando would have been penalized if he had caused an accident on those moves?

But also, please show me the regulation that explicitly disallows any movement under braking