Schuttelberg wrote:It's absolutely relevant mate.
As relative as his first carting race more then a decade ago. I mean it did start there right? Or maybe we can argue it started at Jos Verstappen's first race?
Looking for reasons why he made his decisions to take the inside line, directly implies you feel he made an incorrect decision. He did not, so any reason why is not relevant. For all I care the reason was to pick up a pizza order passing the pit wall. Did he tried to make up places? Yes, the same as just about everyone else around him with the exception of Rosberg (who actually is trying to make up places in the WDC standing, so kind of a half exception). Would he have done the same thing if he start 10th and had a great start? Yes, he would.
So he makes the dive bomb (perfectly legit)
It's kind of rude to completely ignore my point that he did NOT divebomb into the corner:
If that is divebombing, I'm president Barack Obama.
Just like you say VET 'could have' seen VES, I can also state that VES already knew he would be on the inside of both Ferrari's and carrying lesser speed on the exit of La Source because all his momentum was on entry to the corner.
Except Verstappen did not have to consider that. He kept the line he was entitled to. He even moved further to the inside, completely on the kerb to give Raikkonen space. Ultimately it was Vettel trying to squeeze Raikkonen which makes it Vettel's responsibility.
In my opinion, it was a simple racing incident which VES took to a whole new level with the block on RAI. VET leaving RAI space? I'm in agreement with you there, although VET was clueless about VES being there 3 wide. If you get into his head, VET is thinking RAI has enough space on the inside and can squeeze him a tad to make position. Common practice if you ask me, just look at HAM and ROS for the same.
I really like to refrain from going into somebody his head at high speed. It's guessing at best. Vettel could just as well be thinking about that delicious pepperoni pizza Verstappen picked up a moment earlier at the pit wall.
The only thing we are sure of what Verstappen got into his head (later in the race), was he'd "rather run them off the track" as he stated that himself. That's utterly wrong from Verstappen; feelings of retaliation are a bad thing 300km/h. That's where I agree with you.
What I find a complete JOKE is the Rosberg penalty at Germany (which I felt was correctly given) in light of the Verstappen antics today. Verstappen has been moving under braking and pushing people off the track regularly. F1 only learns when there is an incident. Honestly, I think post Schumacher (and this comes from a hardcore Schumacher fan) there has been a huge surge in FAIR but HARD racing over the past decade, but this chap is making Michael look tame! I'm not saying the likes of BUT/ALO/RAI/HAM/VET and RIC are saints, but they're generally on edge and do come across as guys on the limit, yet not over.
Please do not open that can of worms. We had to deal with that the last few race weekends here, it was utterly horrible and I was really glad yesterday the chances that Hamilton and Rosberg got to tango were unexisting. So let's keep ourselves from drawing parallels.
