This is just mandatory reputation management.
He hasn’t learned a thing and it will happen again.
Because he can’t control his red mist. Simple as that.C’mon Max, spell with us: “I am sorry and ashamed for my unsportsmanlike behavior. I beg pardon to Russell, my team, the whole Circus and all the fans for my short tempered actions.”
Is it so difficult? Instead, excuses and resentment. Such a small man in a big drivers body.
And he complains like a little boy too. Stock down.
Max is the perfect heel. Sure he’s fucked in the head, but without him people outside racing fandom would not be talking about F1 as much as they do now. Like in 20 years from now we will be talking about moments like this and not how McLaren won the WDC and WCC. Like the only thing I remember from the 2017 season, outside Hamilton’s fourth WDC is the moment Vettel lost his mind and bumped tires with Hamilton.
I got the whole “let him past by a nosecone, then challenge for the corner” as that’s just standard Max.
I don’t get the whole straightlining the corner when George was on his outside. It was all very Schumacher at Jerez in 97. I’m not Max’s biggest fan and I do enjoy watching him race, but that should have been a bigger sanction than a ten second penalty.
Not to give it the whole “if I was the steward” spiel, but I would have given ten or eleven penalty points for that as a warning that another bit of shithousery would royally fuck his season.
They should have black flagged him and given out the penalty points. If Max wants to play bumper cars, he can go do that instead of F1.
3 penaltypoints is quite significant I think
If literally anybody else did this we’d be talking about a lifetime ban lmao imagine Esteban ocon driving into someone he was told to let by out of frustration, he’d be done. Theres no room for this in the sport. idc if its the best driver in the world or not, its unacceptable and should receive an extraordinary punishment to ensure this behavior ends immediately. 3 race ban is significant, 3 penalty points is a calculated risk for max, clearly.
True, like they banned two-time world champion Michael Schumacher.
No. Vettel got a 10 second stop-go and 3 penalty points for essentially the same thing. 3 penalty points is fair. You can disagree on the 10 second ban and I will agree that it should’ve been a a clear disqualification (assuming the rulebook allows something like that) or at the very least a 10 second stop-go. 3 race ban is just overkill and a lifetime ban would be completely idiotic.
Nah
By “you win some, you lose some” does he mean sometimes he gets away with his tantrums and dangerous driving and sometimes he doesn’t?
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When you recall that Schumacher got disqualified from the championship for similar act, it’s hard to justify and ignore the action.
That was a farcial disqualification to be honest. They disqualified him after the last race was over and he had lost the championship. Nothing changed because of that disqualification. Max should have been black flagged though.
It took the FIA a couple weeks too. Still hoping they do the right thing. This was disgraceful to the sport and we should have zero tolerance
