Exactly. I have listened to the comments on Radio 4 this morning; it seems to me that Hamilton should have been instantly disqualified for having caused the accident. An appropriate punishment would have been a 25 point deduction in the championship, rather than a 25 point bonus for stealing the race win.
I know, how about we put 5 mph bumpers and rubber strips on the cars? And while we're at it, limit the cars to 100 mph? I actually like hard racing, so how about we start getting rid of bs penalties for dumb infractions? Both Max and Lewis could've given each other a bit more space, end of.
Its not a good look if the driver at fault (as decided by the stewards) goes on to win while the other party goes to hospital. However, that is racing. Earlier in the season Perez was penalised for knocking someone off though the other driver (was it a Ferrari i can't remember) was penalised far more by the action.
It was Charles Leclerc who was the Ferrari. These penalties for minor incidents really need to get dropped. BTW, in the previous race, Leclerc had taken Pierre Gasly out on lap 1 and didn't get a penalty, so I personally think he should've just got on with being run off the race track. If anything, it highlights a major problem the race director and stewards have - their inconsistency with penalties.
I suspect had Verstappen not ended up in such a bad crash it would have been seen as a racing incident by the stewards.
Correct.
Also people being over vocal about the incident and calling for something more severe risk taking F1 back to the bad days when it becomes a procession around the circuit. Anyhow im sure by Hungary they will have reassessed it and moved on.
Well a lot of it is Verstappen fans and Hamilton haters. I'm sure if the shoe was on the other foot, they'd be saying how Lewis should've left Max more room and it was his own fault. If the roles were swapped, the arguments would still be the same, just from different sides.
I personally think the two times Albon was taken out by Hamilton were worse from a drivers standards point of view, and I guess those two incidents have played a part in the over-reaction
Maybe Albon shouldn't have left gaps you could park a 747 in.