Poll: British Grand Prix 2021, Silverstone - Race 10/23

Rate the 2021 British Grand Prix out of ten

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deuse said:
"Vettel was given a five second penalty, but still finished in fifth place. Bottas, the victim of Vettel's tap, finishes seventh." 2018 French GP

Hamilton said

'Ultimately, if you ruin someone's race because of a mistake, and you're able to come back to a place ahead of the other person, that penalty doesn't outweigh your mistake. You shouldn't be able to finish ahead of the other person if you take them out of the race. It's like you're violating the speed, but just let you go,''

How things change.
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Except Hamilton didn't make a mistake. Or , at the very least, both him and Max made a "mistake" , or a choice that led to a collision. Max decided to just simply turn in, in spite of knowing Lewis was there, and Lewis held his ground and didn't back out. Lewis had every right to fight there in my opinion. He was basically alongside Max coming up to the corner.
 
Jono8 said:
Except Hamilton didn't make a mistake. Or , at the very least, both him and Max made a "mistake" , or a choice that led to a collision. Max decided to just simply turn in, in spite of knowing Lewis was there, and Lewis held his ground and didn't back out. Lewis had every right to fight there in my opinion. He was basically alongside Max coming up to the corner.
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At the turn in point his front wing was level with Max's front wheel.
 
C4 coverage with the RB bias on full overload, was dreadful.

Palmer's review says it all, a racing incident. Verstappen knew Hamilton was alongside and decided to squeeze and came off worse.
 
Indeed, Hamilton had every right to hold his position on the inside, the fact that Verstappen was three quarters of a car length in front a fraction of a second only points to the fact that being on the outside he could brake a fraction of a second later. The cause of the collision was still largely Verstaoppen moving to the inside and trying to stay close to the optimum line.
 
Here's the key question, imagine it was the last race of the season and Verstappen only needed to finish top 3 regardless of where Hamilton finished to be crowned champion. Do you think the collision would have occured? if your answer is no then Verstappen is as much to blame for the incident as Hamilton was, ergo racing incident. That's my view of it anyway.
 
mmj_uk said:
Here's the key question, imagine it was the last race of the season and Verstappen only needed to finish top 3 regardless of where Hamilton finished to be crowned champion. Do you think the collision would have occured? if your answer is no then Verstappen is as much to blame for the incident as Hamilton was, ergo racing incident. That's my view of it anyway.
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I suspect it would, because Verstappen can't help himself. Everyone would know it was the wrong thing to do, but he'd do it anyway. He's evolved very little as a driver, and barging into everyone at a corner in a faster car doesn't take as much skill and strategy as keeping the car in one piece to overtake later and finish the race to get points. It wasn't that long ago we were calling him Crashstappen.
 
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jellybeard999 said:
Not sure if it's been posted, as I've only noticed the Jolyon Palmer video in the previous few pages

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Before I even watch it I know I'm likely to disagree with it mind. I'm at racing incident where is he at?

I've seen a fair few of his videos of this nature and I always seem to disagree with his conclusions. (I know he's of course more of an authority than me) but he seems to nearly always go against the grain.
 
Feek said:
He really is just a petulant, arrogant, grumpy, aggressive teenager, isn't he?
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Absolutely. He even references how people have commented on him being too aggressive and he dismisses it.

Some of those moves under braking are crazy.
 
ZG002 said:
Before I even watch it I know I'm likely to disagree with it mind. I'm at racing incident where is he at?

I've seen a fair few of his videos of this nature and I always seem to disagree with his conclusions. (I know he's of course more of an authority than me) but he seems to nearly always go against the grain.
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Edit: Oops, thought we were talking about the Joylon Palmer video.
 
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