That’s not what anyone is saying. The only person entitled to the racing line is the person who takes it. This is most important at the apex. LeClerc didn’t defend on entry, and Max came in and took the racing line away and shut the door. LeClerc chose to chance it out on the outside with a predicable result. 

Alternate views of roughly the same moment

A little lift, people do it all the time when they’re on the outside and get beat to the apex. Or if you’re smart you lift earlier and try the cut back b/c you know the guy on the inside has the shallow line and will have a worse exit. You choose to stick it out on the outside, you choose to live and die by the sword.…

I think you’re 100% right. Penalize Max here and no one will ever admit they left the door open and consequently got beat down the inside. They’ll hang around on the outside when the battle is already lost and take the contact and get the benefit of a penalty.

LOL, talk about cherry picking your photo. What I see here is LeClerc 80% of the way to losing the corner, leaving the door WIDE OPEN and Verstappen stepping in. You need to also show the next screen shots of them both at the actual turn in and then at the apex. Verstappen beat LeClerc down to the apex and took the…

It blows my mind that the same guy who was responsible for the disastrous Ferrari summer 2018 upgrade package that made the cars SLOWER and had to be rolled back was promoted to team boss for 2019...

Max was being Max, but LeClerc consciously chose to keep his car in there on exit after not defending on entry and losing the racing line. He had the option to not try and defend the outside after losing the initial battle and try a switch back or something... He chose the risky option and thus he contributed to the…

100% correct!

This can’t 100% be on Max. LeClerc chose to not defend the inside on entry, then he chose to turn in as normal as if he was entitled to that part of the track. He’d already lost the racing line. Instead of adjusting to that reality, he chose to keep his elbows out to try and force Max to make room for him on exit. Max…

Seb’s move was a bit different. If you watch the attitude of the car and not just his hands, you can see that it’s still upset by the curb and he’s catching a rotation, not just turning towards Ham. Go back and watch where the nose of his car is pointed in reference to the barriers on the right side of the track, then…

I’ve gone back and forth on this... At first I 100% agreed that he should be penalized because the stewards need to be consistent with their (even bad) decisions. Canada was a bad decision, but it’s precedent for the rules as they lay currently.

We are already there. The examples you cited, plus Max immediately after contact with LeClerc as well. Huge respect for his engineer immediately responding on the radio “nothing wrong with that mate.”

“But you could also fix up a 3k used NA street car for 5 grand and run that in races for that class of car” you clearly aren’t friends with people who race miatas. The cost of the car is not necessarily the problem, you can always sell a car and get some cash back in your pocket. The tire, travel, transport, entry fees…

Taking a wide line is also known as not defending the inside. He’s welcome to do that, but someone is going to send one up the inside.

Or how about let engineers design a car and then run race simulations to see who would have won

Can’t boil the ocean, I think it is right to focus on the battle for the win and not an incident from quali that didn’t disrupt the actual race results for 3 hours.

Or even F2. Plenty of wheel banging in the sprint race that same weekend, and not a single moment of talk about a penalty.

Same. I can handle the indy 500, but I’m checking-out of anything other than a road/street course.

And yet, even racing a Miata will make you broke and/or divorced.

That’s a great point about the AMG GT-R. It always struck me a little weird that Chevy bothered to make these claims in a world where cars like that and the F12 existed. So maybe you’re 100% right. Also, marketing teams treat 50/50 like it’s the end all be all for performance, but there are so many other factors that…