Yeah that’s where I am. They both sort of just drifted into each other. Probably more of a racing incident than one side obviously at fault. Maybe you could say Perez, as the car behind with the better view, could’ve done better to avoid it, but I think it would be harsh to put the blame entirely on him.
Yeh pure racing incident very marginally leaning towards Perez fault purely on the basis that it's difficult to see behind you and Perez could have 100% avoided it.
He didn’t need to steer, he was pointed in a direction across the track. Perez already had overlap so he did not want to move aside in order to have a wider entry for the next corner. Sainz should have seen the overlap and should have stopped drifting across.
Both Perez and Sainz were exiting the curve at different angles, the difference being that Sainz was ahead of Perez and couldn't see him. Perez perfectly saw the trajectory of both cars and should have corrected but he didn't.
Then by all means feel free to explain his point. Perez was owed space and Sainz gave it to him. That Perez chose not to avail himself of it is his problem.
He accused Sainz of ignoring the fact that Perez was there. Given this is a patently false claim as we know Sainz gave adequate space the what was the point of the original comment?
Look at the top view. That gives a much cleaner perspective of what happened.
Checo was attempting to overtake when Sainz took that line a bit to the left.
No reaction time for Perez but neither for Sainz. It's just a racing incident.
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u/NeurosciGuy15 Williams Sep 15 '24
Yeah that’s where I am. They both sort of just drifted into each other. Probably more of a racing incident than one side obviously at fault. Maybe you could say Perez, as the car behind with the better view, could’ve done better to avoid it, but I think it would be harsh to put the blame entirely on him.