Except he isn’t. Might as well ban every team who’s legally exploited rules.
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Soldato
The FIA continuing to enforce the rules that forcing a driver off while overtaking is a penalty but forcing a driver off while defending isn’t. It makes total sense 
He still constantly gets away with his signature brake late, go off the track and force the other driver off as well.
He's as dirty a racer as they come. Very talented and supremely quick, but he can't defend fairly at all as he always resorts to what he did today and just gets away with it.
Sick of watching him do it and get away with to be honest.
Soldato
Time norris takes a leaf out of Hamilton and just stick to his line and wait for max to crash into him. It's the only way
Soldato
Watched the race live, 1st corner incident was just that, Lewis did it to Roberg in 2016 leading to capgate, it always happens at Austin. The Ferraris were strong, but the track conditions played to their strengths so this will change at different circuits.
As far as the incident with Max and Norris was concerned the stewards were consitant in handing out penalties at that corner, it will always be a penalty for the one who overtakes off the circuit whatever. Norris should have let Max back past and then regrouped to overtake him again. However the tussle between the two drivers was enthralling, I hope to see more of it in the coming races.
What has happened to Lewis, we see those kind of errors from drivers such as Stroll, or previously Latifi, but not Lewis.
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As far as the incident with Max and Norris was concerned the stewards were consitant in handing out penalties at that corner, it will always be a penalty for the one who overtakes off the circuit whatever. Norris should have let Max back past and then regrouped to overtake him again. However the tussle between the two drivers was enthralling, I hope to see more of it in the coming races.
What has happened to Lewis, we see those kind of errors from drivers such as Stroll, or previously Latifi, but not Lewis.
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Soldato
The car has become...well, if I was kind I'd call it 'challenging' but I'm not so I'll call it 'hot trash'.
Man of Honour
Maaaaan. I can’t believe they penalized Lando for that overtake. Max left him nowhere else to go, didn’t even make the corner. Absolute farce.
Saying you can’t overtake off track in that position is just carte blanche for Max to do that every time, which is absurd to me.
Saying you can’t overtake off track in that position is just carte blanche for Max to do that every time, which is absurd to me.
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In this scenario though, he'd just end up with a penalty for causing a collision instead because the stewards are following guidelines that say 'if you get to the apex first, all good', regardless of how you got there first.
He's not getting away with anything, he's just using the rules to his advantage. If they changed the rules then he probably wouldn't do it.
Lewis and Alonso would and have done the same thing.
He is getting away with it.
The apex rule is irrelevant.
By braking late so you arbitrarily reach the apex first, but don't make the corner, you gain an advantage. If that advantage is keeping your place and not being overtaken, you should get slapped with a "leaving the track and gaining advantage" penalty as well.
That just hardly ever gets applied to Max's antics though.
By the letter of the law, BOTH drivers should have got a 5 second penalty.
If you go off track as a result of your actions to keep your place and don't relinquish it, you should get a 5 second penalty.
Man of Honour
I think taking the risk and braking late is fine, that’s racing through and through, but it’s ludicrous to punish the rear driver when the one ahead doesn’t make the corner, and your only option is evasive action. How you can argue they were ‘ahead’ if they just simply don’t brake enough baffles me.
Caporegime
Weird weekend for Merc, they seemed highly competitive at times, but the car seems really unpredictable. Loses rear grip in a tail wind reportedly, and Lewis was caught out by a 40mph gust. Still, I think younger Lewis would have caught that; he got some great results earlier in the season so he's clearly not lost it completely but I think he's lost a little at the edges.
Soldato
Rubbish....you just dislike Max and thats it!! Look at the footage. Properly. Ant on the skypad explained it perfectly!!!
The funny thing is, Norris was actually slightly ahead going into the braking.
By the letter of the law/rules it's quite easily argued that Max gained an advantage braking late and going off track/forcing another driver to take evasive action.
Yes, I do dislike Max, because of this **** he pulls all the time.
I don't give a **** what Ant on his skypad says. It's awful to watch , unfair and rubbish racecraft.
He also said it's Max so you gotta expect that , think that tells you everything
It's always upto the other driver avoid or be hit
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I honestly don’t know why McLaren aren’t making a proper fuss about the rules here. They seriously need to man up.
At the end of the day if they were expecting RB to win, the result they got wasn’t bad. But as above, they need to stop rolling over and accepting the **** sandwich the stewards and FIA seem insistent on feeding anyone that isn’t called Max.
Part of me thinks that actually they got the best they could have hoped for this weekend. Norris seemed to be on a downer most of the time - I’m hoping they knew their car would be not as quick here, but it will be fastest at the upcoming races.
At the end of the day if they were expecting RB to win, the result they got wasn’t bad. But as above, they need to stop rolling over and accepting the **** sandwich the stewards and FIA seem insistent on feeding anyone that isn’t called Max.
Soldato
Lewis's car is no different from the one George is driving and look where he finished. One can only hope for better things at Ferrari..
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Ugh, really hate this 'sport' sometimes...
If that's ok with the rules then the rules are BS, that's not racing that's just plain idiotic, has been for a while I guess and Max is good at exploiting the stupidity of the FIA/Stewards, go him.
Good for Ferrari though, another 1-2 iirc? Have many/any other teams managed that this year?
If that's ok with the rules then the rules are BS, that's not racing that's just plain idiotic, has been for a while I guess and Max is good at exploiting the stupidity of the FIA/Stewards, go him.
Good for Ferrari though, another 1-2 iirc? Have many/any other teams managed that this year?