2024 Austrian Grand Prix - [POST RACE] discussion thread 🏁

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

Track Map

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Silverstone staff should add more tyres at Copse, just in case.
- Just erect an A&E tent there so they can crash directly into it and get instantly treated.
- Was thinking this after today lol
Well that was exciting at the end. The only thing missing are the long and tedious argument chains that would have been found on reddit with everybody arguing whose fault is it.

Do you people agree with Jolyon that Max going off the track to keep the position should have been a pen. The way I see it, Lando clearly pushes him off after the divebomb
- Lando was ahead at the apex, Max should have backed out or when going through the grass given the position to Lando. That's a pretty straight forward case IMO. However Lando did provoke him into that error for sure
  
  I don't think it's that straight forward. Norris dove so deep he almost went off track himself. He didn't leave Verstappen space so Verstappen had to go off track. Implying Norris had the right for the position sets a dangerous precedent where you can simply divebomb deep into the corner, cut off the entire corner and the person you want to pass has to give the position to you.
  
  Lando was ahead at the apex, Max should have backed out.
  
  This was only because he broke so late that he did not make the apex and almost did not make the corner, certainly left no space for max. If that is how things will be, we will see max divebombing and going into people from now on because like Alonso he too takes advantage of dubious stewarding.
- I don’t think it should be a penalty if you push someone off the track. But in this case I am not too sure.
  
  Why though clearly forced of track and he was well ahead going into the braking zone. Can't see why he should be penalized for avoiding contact
- 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.
  
  Where max looked like he took a pretty normal line
  
  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.
Crashstappen is back, let's go
- If you want to pass Verstappen in a championship fight you better be 110% sure you make the move stick and be ahead.
  
  It is not crashtappen vibes I got, I got 2021 vibes instead :)
Verstappen crashes, has a flat tire for 2/3rds of a lap, gets a 10 second penalty and is still 17 seconds ahead of his teammate who failed to overtake a Haas.
- I think Perez damaged his car with Piastri and thus could not go flat out.
  
  Well, it seems like this time he has an excuse
While taking each other out of the points wasn't on my bingo card for the event, I was enjoying the fight up until that point. imo while it felt like Lando had the advantage the overtake wasn't guaranteed. Started getting '21 vibes - if they keep this up...

(Still want to see Albon get a podium at RBR though - rrrobbed.)
2021 Max is back?

George wins by doing nothing.
- He never left, he was just never challenged anymore i think.

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