Adam-Utd
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Its called the B pillar rule (obviously metaphroic in F1) but essentialy when over half of a vehicle is ahead of the vehicle behind, the corner is then deemed to be the car in the leads corner and the car behind is responsible for conceeding position in order for both vehicles to safely run. Irrespective of whether Lewis's steering wheel did not show any change of direction, he carried speed through the corner which caused the front to understeer into the rear of Albon's Redbull. It was an avoidable collision caused by Hamilton (Albon is unaware of how much room he has by obvious fact of being alot further along) and Hamilton is lucky he only got a 5 second penalty considerng the impact it had on Albon. Considering the bullshit last year with Vettel at Canada and both vehicles safely continued, he got off very very lightly.
Personally, these situations should be a 30 second penalty not 5.
Sorry boys, both wrong here.You're talking bollocks, Albon was already past Lewis, how else do you think the front of Lewis car hit Albon's car in the middle?
Lewis should be the one avoiding contact by reducing his speed on that scenario according to the rulebooks.
It's not the first time he's been penalised for thinking the rules don't apply to him. He just gets away with it because his Mercedes is usually way ahead of everybody else which means he barely gets into this kind of scenario.
First of all the corner is a tight slow right hander, you hug the apex tight then accelerate OUTWARDS towards the kerb. That is the racing line.
Albon tried to be cheeky and purposely brake late to go around the outside, but this means he ended up slowing down right on the exit of the corner. Overtaking on the outside of corners is always risky as you can pretty much guarantee the car inside you will naturally push outwards.
Albon obviously hoped/expected that Lewis would give up and not hold his line and let him passed, but clearly he was never going to do that.
From the onboard footage Hamilton is holding his wheel on complete right hand lock and never once lets off to purpose hit into Albon.
Yes it was unlucky but the exit of that corner is very tight and barely has room for 2 cars, let alone to race wheel to wheel at that point.
IF the footage showed Hamilton purposely ran wider to hit him i'd say yes clear penalty, but he didn't. For me this is a clear racing incident and no pen should have been given.