I can go to bed tonight a happy man. Well done Mclaren - Daniel and LN.
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Congratulations well deserved.
Excellent win for Ricciardo, congrats to him 
Thatās a sunk Iām not sure how to take that. 
Not a skunk, itās a happy Honey Badger
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Are you sure it certainly looks like a sunk. 
Believe me Pete, it a honey badger, unmistakable little critters.
They are part of the family mustelid, the weasel family, and this family does include skunk.
We had them raid the garden on odd occasions when living in SA. They eat anything that moves & most anything else, & donāt disturb it if its digging out your prize flowers, if you value your fingers.
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Google thinks itās a honey badger too!
Anyway, back to F1 ā¦. Iām waiting to hear Christian Horners version of how itās LH to blame for MV diving up the inside.
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I would guess more room with a red carpet for Maxš
A racing incident my posterior.
The chicane tightens in the 2nd phase, with no room to shift to the outside. In no way, can you āsend it up the insideā on this corner, hence the penal bumps. You can at Copse as the bend is wide and one car can go wider.
Simply put (IMV), MV had plentiful opportunity to cede but decided not toā¦
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So MV has been given a three place grid penalty at the Russian GP and two penalty points on his licence.
He got off lightly. Should have been a one race ban in my view.
No doubt Horner will try to rustle up an appeal.
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Just caught up with the race - when Hamilton backed out in the first incident, he was not quite level with Verstappen and he was being sensible. In the second incident, the only time Verstappen seemed to be level with Hamilton was when he was landing after bouncing off the kerb. Verstappen needs to learn from Hamilton not giving way and work out that he is hurting his own championship chances
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Iām a big max fan, and not commenting on any blame for the crash, butā¦
The way Mac walked away from the accident. And didnāt check if hami was ok, that was disgraceful.
Safety and common decency should be paramount.
A sad day max
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Yep, he knew the potential outcome and just didnāt care.
Very poor form.
The penalty isnāt enough to stop him doing the same thing again.
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Seemed like a freak accident to me. When have you ever seen the car being squeezed off the track on the outside, end up on top of the other car?
With regards to Verstappen not checking on Hamiltonās condition, surely the fact Hamilton was trying to reverse his car back onto the track indicated he was not injured.
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MVās car was launched off the kerbs on the inside of the corner (phase 2 of the chicane for F1 cars), these higher kerbs designed to stop drivers getting an easy bail out, there being an escape point across other obstacles (mini-speed bumps). This is all designed to ensure a driver doesnāt lunge, cut the corner (across the kerbs or not), gain an advantage via an overtake and then blame another driver for not leaving enough room. MV ignored all this.
I wouldnāt class this as a freak accident as cars have left the tarmac many times from simply clipping wheels, such are the forces involved - the first tight slow corner at Spa is a prime example of this, where many cars have been launched in to the air.
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I still havenāt come to terms with the fact that Max didnāt even see if LH was ok. Iāve never been a huge fan of either driver but I donāt believe that LH wouldnāt check to make sure the other driver was ok before storming off like a spoilt brat.
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Pete, akin to other sports (I think here of football as the primary example), to my mind F1 has a very mixed-up set of values within its rules set e.g.
A power unit change (>3 allowed), which may have been caused by an event not of a teamās/driverās making, relegates the driver to the back of the grid. But someone driving dangerously gets hit with a 3-place grid penalty. How does that scan?
And, this, after the faux āraceā that was Spa (all 2 laps of it), where the (heavily) paying punters saw no racing whatsoever and F1 decided to awards points for the charade.
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