2024 Mclaren Formula 1 Team

[McL-H]

McLaren should have told Lando to give the place back. The stewards decisions were inconsistent throughout the race, not sure
if McLaren will dispute the result or if they can. Not sure if he got that for track limits or the overtake.

Nonsense. Max didn’t even make it to the corner himself. If this is allowed passing becomes IMPOSSIBLE.

[taperoo2k]

F1 has always been that way. It used to be Ferrari who got away with stuff (hence Ferrari International Assistance). It's currently Redbull, I think the
FIA needs a much better President who'll be a bit firmer and not waste time having a go at drivers for swearing.

[KimiRai]

Had Norris given the place back and complain about Max forcing him off the track, It would have been 5 sec penalty to Max considering the other incidents in the race

[FittingMechanics]

This is such bullshit. But I think the team was right in trying to go ahead and drive off.

Verstappen lets his brakes off so he gets to the apex first but then he forces you off. That is clearly abusing the system. Either start giving penalties to Verstappen for forcing people off or don't give penalties when people go off because he forced them.

That is such a bullshit move.

He's been driving like this since he got to F1, and people think it's "Great Racing" when it's actually just bad racing

I mean it obviously works. It's such a bullshit way to race because you keep forcing people off who then get penalties for track limits (like Lando in Austria) or get penalties for gaining an advantage.

Verstappen forced Norris wide on lap 1 - which lead to Norris falling to P4. And then again he forced him off on overtake.

I think stewards could have easily went with "Verstappen didn't make the corner thus he was not really ahead at corner as he couldn't slow down". But obviously, stewards don't have common sense.

BTW this proves to anyone that FIA/stewards are not giving out penalties to make the competition more interesting. If they did then Norris would not get a penalty for that because it Verstappen didn't make the corner.

[PapayaFan481]

Had Norris given the place back and complain about Max forcing him off the track, It would have been 5 sec penalty to Max considering the other incidents in the race

In hindsight that would have been the best option.

[FittingMechanics]

Btw let's remember what happened when Norris "overtook off the track" in Austria and then let Max through. He fought him again and got punted off the track.

[michl420]

The only way to overtake VES is dive bomb so that he cant push you out. Since 2021 every ovetake one VES on the outside looke like this. He is always just unfair when he defends. The stewards must make a statement about that.

[FittingMechanics]

Had Norris given the place back and complain about Max forcing him off the track, It would have been 5 sec penalty to Max considering the other incidents in the race

I'm not sure. I think this was given when the defending driver was forced off. I could be wrong though.

[blastdoman]

Conclusión: Max can brake where he wants. The rest must brake letting space to The rivals

[PapayaFan481]

So now you can defend your position by simply not turning in and running your opponent off the road then let them rejoin in front of you and they get a penalty??

Stewards were inconsistent today.

[Joel709]

Max isn’t just a prick, he is a menace and joke of a driver, people can compare him to anyone they want but he won’t even touch the top 100 f1 drivers, would rather race stroll at this point than this Dutch prick

Shows your minuscule F1 Knowledge to go straight to stroll, who happens to be one driver who has a worse reputation than max

[Swed3121]

New FIA sporting directive issues:
“Please everyone, let Max do whatever he wants”

[FittingMechanics]

It was hard to get past Max, just dropping back would likely have been thecsame result. So going for 5 seconds gap was probably the best option.

Maybe the team should just factor this into and get Lando to overtake off the track.

Btw at least Lando lost only 3 points to Verstappen. If this was for the win it would be 7 points.

[CjC]

Have they deleted ‘leave a cars width of track for the other driver’ out of the rules?
I read an article this season about Max’ racecraft and the stewards had to re- write a rule just for Max Verstappen I think

[madsonit]

There's the regular F1 rulebook and there's the Max Verstappen F1 rulebook. They co-exist and are applied differently.