ROUND 11: 🇦🇹 Austria
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 1970
- Number of laps: 71
- Circuit Length: 4.318 km
- Race Distance: 306.452 km
- Lap record: 1:05.619 Carlos Sainz (2020)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2024
I can’t figure out the “rules” for that situation, as they seem very fluid depending on the corner and the outcome.
I wouldn’t have thought Lewis should have given the position back to Sainz, but l also watched Max barge Charles off there years ago with no penalty.
While Max was clearly at fault for the collision, Lando was optimistic on a few of those attempts, my personal favorites being “He moved under braking!” Where max looked like he took a pretty normal line through the turn, and “He pushed me off!” When Lando locked up and blew through the corner.
I can’t stand either one of them, so it was highly entertaining.
The line slightly different than his normal but nothing over the edge. I was shocked when palmer squarely claimed that Verstappen was the only one over the line and that Lando was never over it during the whole fight.
Max moved under braking multiple times, passed off track, ran into Norris not once but twice in the same corner, left the track maintaining his position, pushed Norris off track on the straight after the collision, then weaved and blocked Norris on the racing line on the following corner after it was clear he had a puncture.
Norris was overly optimistic going into a corner once and gave the position back.
But yeah, let’s go ahead and treat both of their behaviors as the same… /sarcasm