The team cost him by putting him on Hards, then the mistake that led to Charles overtaking him, just seen that Max & Charles touched which looks like Max’s fault, George touched Max on the first corner but Max gained an advantage using the slip road that’s why the team have told told him to give it back to George
Max has no defense and deliberately hitting and damaging a competitor car should not be acceptable although he has previous record for doing it
it is just the question if George was far enough ahead there.. he hit him in the sidepod, so there will be a discussion about that
But the biggest fault was made on the pitwall, they should have let him on his soft tyres and not box him, he would have been ajead then, maybe Oscar would overtaken him then, but doubtfull if Lando also would have
Glad you replied as I was on the countdown timer for replying too quickly, Hard to have a conversation when you can only reply once every 60 seconds across the entire site including DM’s
Is this something that can be changed based on trust levels @kaya
The hard tires were not a good idea. But he slipped on the corp. And had to let Lewclerc go. I can understand everyone’s frustration, only the move against Russel, he should have saved himself, but it’s about points. and a tough driver does that, other great drivers have done the same. that’s racing, the excitement we want to see. it was fair, but not fair
It amazes me how Max gets 10 seconds for deliberately and maliciously hitting a competitor and damaging their car but George last week got a Drive though at Monaco for illegal overtaking and saying he would take the penalty
Also on the first one, yes George tapped him and yes you can say that Max was only on the slip road because of George but Max gained an advantage from using that slip road
The massively corrupted FIA only gave him 3 points to avoid a very well deserved race ban. At the end of the month he’s going to be clean to dive bomb again