http://en.f1i.com/news/69461-hamilton-a ... appen.html Alonso and Hamilton defend 'exceptional' Verstappen
This is another reason why F1 is completely rotten. Drivers like that that can ignore any rules when it suits them. Can you even imagine those two behind Verstappen jr making illegal and danegerous moves, crashing into him, breaking their stupid limbs and/or losing wins-championships and then saying how cool his driving is?
"I think there is a rule you cannot move under the braking zone, so you cannot move when a car is alongside you," Alonso said. "There is one movement allowed and as long as you are still in front of the car behind."
Asked if that meant Verstappen's defending against Raikkonen on the Kemmel Straight was OK, Alonso replied: "Yeah.
"You think"? Is he joking? Verstappen made two blocking moves, first one was too late (the part when he stopped moving sideways), second one was way too late and completely illegal, both very dangerous especially in combination (not one continuous) And no:
- the other driver does not have to be along side to make this move illegal. You are fully in front you make late move like that it's still illegal, because it's:
A. the second one, B. too late/close or C. both like Verstappen here
- you can make one move that is illegal, It depends on how late you are, how close the other car changing the line is, how changing line late like that affects your speed/the other driver's speed and by that if it's causing (by action of one driver which is important in wheel-to-wheel - here Verstappen) dangerous situation or crash.
Instead of co-creating clear rules by clarifying clear examples by drivers/FIA and decisions/penalties that follow them we have cheap politician and hypocrites like that. Plus equally hypocritical crowd/media that is cheer-leading them. The fact that no other driver is talking about and Whiting put his head in the sand is telling too.