Just_a_fan wrote: ↑20 May 2020, 15:39
Sevach wrote: ↑20 May 2020, 13:40
Please, Vettel took to the middle of the track, which is a pretty standard and natural move when you start on the outside, and people act like he chopped Verstappen into the wall...
Somehow Max touching Kimi and Kimi going into Vettel is all Vettel's fault.
No excuses for Baku he did get off light.
He moved across the block Verstappen having not had a great start. That's fair enough, normally, but what Seb didn't know/realise is that Kimi had a blindingly good start. Which meant that as Max felt the squeeze from Seb, he had nowhere to go on his left. I think Max may have been concentrating on Seb and also not noticed Kimi until it was too late. Whatever, it was started by Seb having the least good start of the three and then trying to block Max. I'd say it's 25% Seb, 75% "bad luck" really.
First let me make it perfectly clear that i think it was a racing accident and i don't think any punishment should've been dolled out (and the stewards agree with me, whatever that's worth right...).
I think the one person who could've avoided it all was... Max.
Seb's getaway was less than ideal but not so bad that Max was about to fly past him, so he moved into a defensive position, natural move, not overly aggressive, it's all fine here.
Kimi meanwhile is going like a rocket on the inside of Max and easily breazes past.
Max has nothing to gain now, he can't really outbrake Seb down the inside anymore because Kimi will be fully ahead of him holding the inside line when they reach the braking zone.
His best option at this point would be to lift and try to reset around the outside to take a better line through the first couple of corners and pressure the Ferraris coming out of them.
I think he does lift just before the crash, but it was too late, your point that he might've been too focussed on Seb might be correct.
It happened, Hamilton went on to win where he was suppoused to lose, it sucked... but it's still a freak accident and i can't crucify the guy (any of them) for that, what else can be said?