For serious, though, I pointed out after Austin last year that cutting across the entire track at the first turn of the first lap is awful racecraft from Sainz, and got shouted down by Russell-haters.
For serious, though, I pointed out after Austin last year that cutting across the entire track at the first turn of the first lap is awful racecraft from Sainz, and got shouted down by Russell-haters.
I guess so, but it’s still interesting to see how these guys react in such situations.
In the last F3 sprint there was this moment where a driver returned to track unsafely and took himself and another car out. What he did was he ran to the other driver, obviously profusely apologised, and then went away to scream at himself. It was such a cool sporting moment.
And so if a teenager can do that, it’s a bit odd to see grown men in F1 act like children sometimes. The radio just makes it worse, because if they know people listen to what they’re saying, it makes sense for them to blame everyone else even if they know it’s their fault.
Can’t fault viewers if these things leave a bad taste in their mouth.
I agree with all that and it did leave a bad taste in my mouth too for about a year, but it’s been a long time, the drivers have moved on, and he’s been really respectful since then. Just feels weird to me to hold a grudge for years and years over something that the drivers stopped caring about. I’m not defending him in the moment but I can’t pretend to understand the stresses the drivers are under and try to forgive drivers for one off outbursts. If it’s a constant thing then I definitely get annoyed with them.