Mogster wrote: ↑08 Oct 2023, 19:22
The fact that Hamilton was on softs and likely to get a rocket start sounds worthy of a team discussion imo.
Not to mention on the grippier side the the track: There is no way they did not discuss this, so Russel's radio of "only looking ahead" is questionable.
The problem started once GR was boxed in. LH had to evade GR's escape attempt from the box or they would have crashed even before T1. I suspect LH decided to immediately return the favour, expecting GR to yield. This was obviously a bad assumption and at that point it's pot luck as to who comes off how.
So as a racing incident I would say they are both to blame, with LH perhaps more responsible for not anticipating GR not yielding. But from the team perspective I would be disappointed in GR precipitating the situation by going aggressive against LH's predictable fast start instead of playing the long game.