Thread title is a joke
yes...hence my point, you can't just simply stamp your feet and demand a female F1 driver because reasons. That won't do anyone anyone good: Not F1, not the team, not the female driver and especially not other female drivers.
They would be having a field day. Hell 70% of the Dutch GP was spend talking about Max forcing Gasly wide. Lewis crashing into his opponent, wrecking his race? Barely gets a mention during the race and in the British media it's silence as well. Absolutely held to two different standards.
Hamilton has acquired influence in F1, not only because of his racing record, but because he speaks to the media, and in fact use them to spread his opinion on a variety of subjects, that we like it or not. Other drivers, even world champs, haven't done that as much. Hence why his name come very often in the headlines, IMO. Also, the British media have more influence in F1 than any other country commentators, I guess.
Verstappen races differently in 2023. He doesn't feel the need to push opponents off the track! Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date
Lewis races differently in 2023. He doesn't feel the need to push opponents off the track! Monica_MV1_2xF1_WDC⭐⭐ on X: "@LH44Joseph notice where Lewis is with Charles and then notice where he is with Max, yeah, Lewis races Max different too https://t.co/hRdVADFvaX" / X (twitter.com)
this also compares cars that could not follow as closely as they can now and have you seen the post this person makes on twitter??
I would say Max races Lewis differently than other drivers. Even though those circumstances are a bit different (2021: cars that can take curbs a lot better and Lewis was coming out of the pits), but Max stayed consistent with his views. He felt like Sainz pushed him off. I tend to agree that Sainz didn't give any room. A driver can deliberately push another off the track in that corner and a drive can go full lock and understeer and push another drive off as well. The nature of that chicane. I still believe that if a driver deserves room if he gets his car along side... IF it isn't done on a dive bomb. It's funny to me any time someone says Max was trying to push Lewis off track in that crash in 2021. He was literally pushed off the track and trying to push his way back ON the track.
Not unusually quite from the Sir Lewis Hamilton haters. Watch how Sir Lewis Hamilton stays the top topic here even though Max/RB just broke a record. Are other drivers really that uninteresting?
Yes Lewis made a mistake and bumped into Piastri. He admitted as much and immediately apologized. Not sure what more he can do. Of course the haters had a field day but those who truly know understand that stuff like this happens to everyone so there is not much to report here
I think some people would like to see harsher penalties dished out for contacts like this, that ruin one fellow's race, and let the other one escape with only 5 sec added to his time. I believe a drive through penalty instead is what some have in mind. Trying to adjudicate in cases of contact is opening a pandora box. In some cases, I find that BOTH parties are at fault !
There have been multiple contacts during the race. Some contacts resulted have worse consequences. Even though there is little difference in the incidents. Should they penalize all contacts equally? Or wait to see if a contact ruins a race and adjust the penalty?
Some contacts have more "consequences" than others, mostly if they damage a car or force it to crash and severely affect one driver. Sometimes, the "guilty party" ends up with his car being damaged (front wing?) and provokes a puncture on the other car. When no damage is done, like in the case of Norris-Piastri banging wheels at Monza, no sanction is needed. When someone is literally thrown of the track, and has its race ruined, like we have seen several times this season already, then the penalty should be far more severe that 5 secs. The stewards have to decide if the contact was accidental, because of reckless driving, or even intentional. Also, both attack and defense can be too aggressive, leading to contact. This should be judged case by case, IMO.
Martin Brundle on the Italian GP: 10 for Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton disappoints and Carlos Sainz stars | F1 News (skysports.com) Brundle also disappointed in Lewis and Toto comments.
Liloux Wadoux is seriously impressive but her future is in Sportscars and I think she will have a very strong career in them. Sophia Floersh is more interested in social media than anything and her F3 performances are not gaining any serious attention from anyone that matters. Jamie Chadwick has struggled in the US with a top team and the lustre of of those championships are all but gone. No real female F1 hopefuls on the horizon as far as I can see.
Problem is ... failing to leave room on-track for an alongside driver is NOT a random, infrequent thing with Hamilton. He violates this rule, with extremely dangerous consequences, every couple of races!! He's become flat-out notorious for driving like he's the only car on the track. It's extremely "entitled" ... and it's extremely dangerous.
