RLKD wrote:
The question should be "appropriate penalty for Ocon's actions?"
I can't get my head around the fact that people try to put any blame on Max and defend Ocon for this. He's got the victory stolen away from him. Ocon had no business whatsoever of going wheel to wheel with him.
If this is how you see the situation you need to rethink what you know about motorsport and more importantly sportsmanship. The RULE IS that "when" a car has a
"significant portion" (just the front wing alone is considered significant) on the inside of another car, the leading driver must leave a car's width of room. In this case Ocon had 75% of his car alongside and in Verstappen's field of vision and Max chose to slam the door shut as he's become accustomed to doing but this time the opposing driver had better position and was indeed faster and it was your beloved Max who caused the contact, and if you look at the incident you'd see that clear as day.
Hamilton told Max in those situations you have more to lose, though I'm certain in his arrogance Max brushed it off and still felt it was all Ocon's fault for daring to contest a move on the track. Had it been the other way around you'd be defending Max vehemently because as a racer on a race track he has every right to RACE! The one thing no one is considering here is the fact that Ocon is at the moment, without a race seat for 2019 and he's trying to do all he can to impress in the hopes it helps him land a seat. Surely, that fact cannot be ignored.
Sorry to burst your's and Max's bubble, but Max cost himself the race win and Lewis told him so in the cool down room too.
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Toby. wrote:
Two days of community service. How humiliating.
I doubt it will even scratch the surface of his over inflated ego. He's still relatively new in F1. Once he achieves success, I hope he mellows down & doesn't keep being prudent. Loved Hamilton's input to Verstappen in the cool down room. Hamilton has learnt so much with experience which Max will do as well but I hope he does.
The problem doesn't only lie with Max himself. His father was/is a rather arrogant personality himself so some of this is taught and instilled from a very early age and Max believes he's the all encompassing deity of F1 and all shall yield to the divine chosen one.
ALESI wrote:
I never really understand this idea of unlapping yourself, unless you are massively faster and can pull a gap immediately then surely you'll be given blue flags straight away?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zgL7iyNDsNothing more to say on that other than ANYTHING is possible and racers have the right to fight to the bitter end.