Pyrone89 wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 12:51
Ocon has already shown his dark side in Spa, Baku and especially Brazil (I still think that was on purpose due to the history between VER and OCO)
Perez put Ocon into the wall in Spa, twice (not the last time he puts Ocon into a wall, either). Ocon was 100% at fault in Baku, you don't try and kiss the apex with a car alongside you on the inside, but he was never getting out of the crash intact so I'm not sure you can put it down as 'dark side', 'stupid side', perhaps. As for Brazil, see my comment in the previous sentence. Verstappen had unlapped himself in a previous race and scored points, setting the precedent that you never know what might happen in a race so why give up (K-Mag repeated that philosophy in his post-race interview with Will Buxton this weekend). As to him doing it on purpose, surely he wouldn't have tried to make the corner if he was doing it on purpose? You can see Max in the following Bahrain GP just open his steering so he can bang Ocon on his way past (RoGro/K-Mag style), a move I believe Verstappen admitted was deliberate, to see how it would be done. Or Perez crashing into Sirotkin in Singapore. Or Vettel into Hamilton at Baku to see what a deliberate impact looks like.
I know the Brazil incident really annoys a section of the F1 fan base, but to cast all those incidents as his fault and that one as deliberate is a difficult position to support.