F1 2021 Season

adexkola said:
Another newb question

How does Perez "help" Max?
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Apart from by crashing other racers of the track (no, not actually), if Perez is ahead of Hamilton, he can block his progress. For example: Hamilton does an early pit stop and gets back on the track behind Perez. As Hamilton is now on fresh tires, he will be able to go quicker than others and move through the pack quickly, while other racers will also get out of the way by pitting themselves. Once Hamilton reaches Perez this way (whom Hamilton is expected to take over given his superior speed and skill), then Perez can help Verstappen by being hard to overtake (within the rules of racing), thus holding up Hamilton and making him lose time.

Similar with Perez keeping back Bottas, since if Bottas in whatever situation is ahead of Max, he is also expected to hold up Max - even if Bottas has generally been spectactularly poor at doing so this season. Of course, Perez and Bottas can also race for themselves, but since they are much slower than Verstappen and Hamilton and less likely to win anything major, the better team approach for them is to play second fiddle in a more strategic role.

On a separate note, I always like Verstappen's interviews (like the one posted by @pauldyson1uk above). I see more of it in Dutch media, where he has this great no-nonsense approach, just tersely speaking his mind without playing games. No bigging himself or others up or the inverse, just realism (from his perspective anyway). I prefer that over the mindgames and political answers.
 
Hamilton summoned to the stewards...
 
17Larsson said:
He's been summoned twice.
He's definitely getting some grid place penalties
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The BBC were quoting Masi as saying there were no flags earlier.

Grid penalties will be a damp squib ending to the season.
 
Jippy said:
The BBC were quoting Masi as saying there were no flags earlier.

Grid penalties will be a damp squib ending to the season.
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Believe that was in relation to the Mazepin incident, Hamilton should have got a blue flag telling him there was a car on a hot lap behind but didn't so wouldn't have known Mazepin was on a hot lap. Guessing the team might get a fine for not warning him but as it's practice not quali, shouldn't be a penalty. There were definitely yellows earlier on, believe it was Verstappen driving slowly that caused them for extra absurdity.
 
Fully Fledged said:
They've ruined Hamilton's preparation for qualification for a non-incident. Disgraceful.
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It seems stupid if the marshal's system was triggered accidentally for one second. Why couldn't they deal with that after quali?
 
The bbc are worse than the sun, heading the FIA's tweet on Ham's summons being feck all- 'A breach of the regulations'
 
Jippy said:
It seems stupid if the marshal's system was triggered accidentally for one second. Why couldn't they deal with that after quali?
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Why couldn't they see that before he was called. It should only take a minute for them to see it was a mistake and disregard it. Impleading during a practice session is normally a fine as well so that could have been dealt with after practice.
 
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