Andrea Stella said everyone but Red Bull knew who to blame - but what do our writers think?
Max Verstappen and Lando Norris came together in dramatic circumstances that left Norris out and Verstappen down in P5, but who was to blame for the incident?
And from there the frustrations boiled over as it looked for the first time this year that Verstappen was really not enjoying his new-found rivalry with Norris. The McLaren driver divebombed, as Verstappen put it, and Verstappen moved under braking, as Norris put it. And bam, they collided. Uncompromising? Yes. On the limit? Definitely. Beyond it? I’m not so sure on this one – put me on the fence this time.Had Norris and Verstappen not made contact, we would be hearing how this is the kind of close racing we want to see, the kind we haven’t seen since 2021 but such is the way that the close racing boiled over into contact.
For me, it was a collision that happens at the high end of F1 and although it was Verstappen’s fault, cries that it is “typical Verstappen” are uncalled for.While Verstappen was given the blame for the incident by Race Control, I don’t think the guilt lies solely with him. Norris hardly did anything wrong either but found himself being squeezed out at a point where he believed Verstappen would have already started to turn – meaning he didn’t move out to give himself more space.
Verstappen drove with the extreme toughness that has always been his hallmark and while on plenty of occasions he has been at fault, I would have put this one more at 55/45 with the Dutchman only marginally more at fault than the British driver.If I have to pick a driver on whom to lay the blame, then the primary fault lies with Max Verstappen.
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