Max I think will finish P2 given how Mercs are holding one another up and Bearman is ahead. Wonder if Piastri will go aggressive with Max?
I hope Charles takes Max and himself out as Max tries to overtake and gives the podium places to Bearman and Piastri.
Go through my posts, I’ve praised Max plenty of times. LeClerc goes off track, and gains a position and isn’t penalised. Hamilton did and was. Max Kamikazes into a corner and causes a collision with Hamilton and isn’t penalised. and now we get the stewards ruining the fight between Charles and Max for a vsc that wasn’t needed. it’s incompetent stewarding I’m fed up with.
Stewards really ruined this one. Max not getting a punishment for a dive bomb and using Lewis as a bumper car. Very slow to investigate T1 and v lenient, even with T1 mitigations. VSC really needed? Also interested how Max magically caught up 0.6s with CLC under the double yellows in the stadium section.
The stewarding makes VAR seem reasonable. Who were they today? Maybe it's time to stop giving crap former drivers the jobs.
Personally I can’t be too dissatisfied with the stewarding today. In Leclerc’s case I don’t think it was even passed to them. Everything they investigated they got right imho.
T1 lap1 is always going to be leniently looked upon, Leclerc didn't really gain a position, he stayed where he was once he'd given the lead to Lando, same with Max, to the letter of the rules. But there's no surprise Max get let-off for a avoidable collision later because he nearly always does, unless the stewards can also penalise the driver he's racing, or it's meaningless to the result.
I largely agree. For the Max/Lewis incident, it’s also a quirk of these new overtaking rules that if you can get ahead at the apex you can claim the corner. Yes they touched, but it was gentle and similar to many other gentle touches that we see, Leclerc and Russell at Zandvoort, Piastri and Norris at Singapore etc. If Hamilton hadn’t run across the grass at the next corner or had ceded the advantage he gained from doing so the whole thing would have just been a racing, which is exactly what it was
