To be honest, that's not really "harsh" when both were self inflicted.ds.raikkonen wrote:Well, it was hero (in Spain) to zero (in Monaco) for Maldonado last weekend. First he bumped with Perez, who is nt exactly Mr. 'clean driving' and then crashed out of the race as well! Life can't get more harsh than that.
Regardless, I wish him the best and hope that he doesn't commit any more grave mistakes. For the teams sake, of course.
And sauber f1 team was laying eggs between the session rather than fix the imaginary tifoso suspension problemmx_tifoso wrote:And he ruined Perez's weekend in the process. It is almost guaranteed that had he not banged into him the rest of the weekend would have been a lot better, given that the the suspension problems were more than likely related to the that incident.
stefan_ wrote:So, our man did it again this race.
I think Maldonado should be a subject of a study on mind liability. He can be fast and consistant, but man he can be astonishingly stupid. He wether has rage moments (highly probable) or his mind just seems to be blocked in certain situations when he takes the dumbest decisions possible. This cannot be bad, everyone has issuses, but when your job is driving a car that is capable of doing 300+ km/h, I see it as a big problem.
considering hamilton's tyres were clearly past their best... all Maldonado had to do was get a better traction out of one of those corners get a good exit and beat the mclaren through pure acceleration....so mid corner was not the place and that move was uncalled for.... there was no way he could have challenged Kimi for 2nd place (and am sure his team would have told him that) so he had around 2 laps to overtake lewis..... a case of misplaced driver instincts....Petroltorque wrote:Racing incident. Podium was beckoning and laps were running out....
Just because you're running out of time does not make every possible manoeuvre a "racing incident". As has been said, all Igor had to do was get the traction down better than Hamilton out of a single corner, and he had more than a lap to do it in. Instead, he chose to come from fully off track, and T-bone the McLaren.Petroltorque wrote:Racing incident. Podium was beckoning and laps were running out....
Petroltorque wrote:Racing incident. Podium was beckoning and laps were running out....
Already decided – 10 place.Raptor22 wrote:Petroltorque wrote:Racing incident. Podium was beckoning and laps were running out....
No chap, One car was on the track the other was off it. The car rejoining the track has to keep clear of cars already on the track.
Maldo pulled a Mal move. 100% his fault. He'll probably get a 5 place penalty for that one
It's a racing driver's job to obstruct drivers who are behind them, there was nothing unnecessary about it.simos wrote:Imo they are both partly to blame, Maldonado was overaggressive, but Hamilton unnecessary obstructed him for half the lap on ruined tires
Entirely normal racing manoeuvre – if they try to go out wide and get the inside on the next turn, you worry them out wide, and then hang about on the apex of the next turn. Firm, but fair defence by hamilton.and left him no room in that corner.
Uhhh right... let a faster car past... WHEN RACING FOR POSITION!I'd say Madonado is still the main instigator of that crash, but Hamilton should really know when to simply let the faster car pass.
No, Alonso simply was so much slower than the car behind him that he had no choice. He was not still in the fight come the breaking zone.Alonso in Canada did just that, he stopped fighting and saved some crucial points.
