🏎 Formula 1 - 2021

Hamilton and Verstappen coming together at the first corner chicane after Hamilton had pitted, he was ahead of Verstappen.

So who’s fault was that then?

For me Hamilton did exactly what Verstappen did yesterday, at the sprint race, and today. Yesterday Ricciardo pulled out and Verstappen took the position. Today he pushed Hamilton off of the track.

Meanwhile Bottas is up to 4th after starting at the back…

Mclaren1-2 - first time in over 10 years

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Christian Horner being quite diplomatic about the crash and saying its a racing incident :thinking::thinking:

Defo Max at fault then

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And he has just been given a 3 grid penalty for the next race

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This is a tweet from Verstappen before the penalty was announced…

"Today was very unfortunate. The incident could have been avoided if I had been left enough space to make the corner.

“You need two people to make that work and I feel I was squeezed out of it. When racing each other, these things can happen, unfortunately.”

Like I said earlier it’s a shame he didn’t apply that principal when Hamilton was trying to go around him at the Variante del Roggia, and yesterday when he did the same to Ricciardo at the Variante del Rettiflio. Both times the other driver pulled out knowing they were being squeezed out by Verstappen.

Indeed at Imola this year he did the same thing to Hamilton and, again, Hamilton backed out…

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Russian GP is good.
Actual battles everywhere
Hamilton bad start stuck in 6th.
Verstappen cruising through the field

Lando is winning.
It rains.
Carnage
Lewis leads
Verrstappen up to 2nd it had to switch from game crazy

Brilliant bit of intervention from the rain there today, got to feel for Norris

But Hamilton 100 race wins, got to hand it to him.

Verstappen fighting up to 2nd place, superb drive.

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Cracking tactical race
Lewis chasing down Max with better tyres.
Polish stream Beeb sport to tell me what’s happening
Different
Gripping
Great drive by Lewis.
Can Max hang on1.6s 6 laps

Max hanging on 1.9s lead
2 laps to go
Did Lewis blow his tyres chasing him down

Max wins had the straight line speed to hold off Lewis

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DRS off of the back marker helped Verstappen there, don’t understand why you get DRS from a back marker…

Well, you don’t get too many like that. Nice finale and fair play to Max for maintaining that lead. His tyres looked fucked at the end of it.

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Our colonial cousin (pawn from his viewpoint) @PiddlyD was at this yesterday.

Some cracking shots. Must be the NRA in him :wink:

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Max Verstappen fined €50,000 for touching and examining the rear wing of Hamilton’s car after qualifying at the São Paulo Grand Prix.

And Hamilton?

DQ’d starts last in the Sprint

You cheat, you pay the price, I’m surprised that Mercedes were this blatant though…

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Epic Sprint Race.
Great drive by Valtteri
Epic drive by Lewis. 24 laps started 20 finished 5th

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