So someone that rams his car into the sidepod of the other car at 200mph without giving him time to react is correct and the driver that stays on the line he was driving the whole straight and does nothing illegal is wrong
You said it yourself, Vettel should have waited for the corner, take the inside line, go wide and at that point force Webber to slow down, but I guess he didn't fancy braking on the inside of the corner on the marbles, well that's though for him.
I also think that the stewards should give Vettel a warning, it doesn't matter that they are teammates, this is just outright dangerous.
No, Vettel was 100% to blame for the collision..
All I'm saying it was webbers decsion that despite the speed Vettel was coming passed him, and there was no question that Vettel would either be totally infront or with minimal overlap by the corner, he decided to only give him a few centimetres of spare room, massively increasing the risk of incident, and compromising both cars going into the corner.
Just look at the moment of impact, it's Seb's rear tyre against the front of Webbers car, the overlap at that point was substantial and getting smaller very very quickly, Webber had lost the corner entry, both of them where off-line (and on the dirty side of the track), I really can't see any logical reason for Webber to be aggressively defending in a futile situation like that, especially against a team mate.
I say all this after looking at how well JB/LH behaved, LH have JB room at the start of the manoevre, he could have squeezed him out, but the risk is too great, and JB yielded intelligently when LH went back at him, again, he could have held his line, but it would have ended in tears.. Both gave each other room, despite who was legally entitled to it or not, both not wanting to take each other out.
So again, Vettel 100% to blame for the collision, however MW was over defending in a futile manner and increased his own risk of an incident for no reason, unless you count hanging yourself and your teammate out on the dirty line centimetres apart miles before the corner with 2 MacLarens right behind you when your team mate has got the jump on you and is easily going to be past you by the braking point a 'smart' move..
To be honest, end of the day, I am totally against Vettel's behaviour, we are talking about stuff with the hindsight of being able to watch video's and see things the drivers can't, they had milliseconds to react within centimetres of each other! If you look at Webber's on-board, he is naturally moving about a bit, he even seems to slightly keep moving right, then stopping, he was taking it down to the wire, as he's entitled to, but the more I see the video the more it doesn't surprise me contact happened, had that been another team, I'd have been impressed with webbers resolute defending, but being your team mate, and seeing others handle it better, I just think he wasn't being that smart about the situation, no big deal..
