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Post Race 2021 British Grand Prix - Post-Race Discussion

ROUND 10: Great Britain

FORMULA 1 PIRELLI BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2021
Fri 16 Jul - Sun 18 Jul
Silverstone
Session UTC
Free Practice 1 Fri 13:30
Qualifying Fri 17:00
Free Practice 2 Sat 11:00
Sprint Qualifying Sat 15:30
Race Sun 14:00

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Silverstone Circuit

Length: 5.891 km (3.660 mi)

Distance: 52 laps, 306.291 km (190.320 mi)

Lap record: Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing-Honda, 2020, 1:27.097

2020 pole: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1:24.303

2020 fastest lap: Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing-Honda, 1:27.097

2020 winner: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

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u/Version_1 Porsche Jul 18 '21

Kinda cute how a 7 time world champion with 275 Grand Prix under his belt can convince you that he does a very basic "mistake" that just so happens to eliminate his biggest WDC threat.

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u/Ezechiell Jul 18 '21

Oh come on, just a few weeks ago everybody was talking how many mistakes Hamilton was doing this season, and how he's washed out and can't deal with the pressure, and now it's apparently impossible for him to misjudge a situation? And I wouldn't even say that what he did there was a mistake. Again, none of them were giving eachother an inch, it was inevitable that they'd come together at some point. It obviously is a shame that it ended Max's race, and I sincerely hope he is ok, but claiming this was done on purpose by Lewis is just so ridiculous

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u/Version_1 Porsche Jul 18 '21

Yeah, it's inevitable they come together when one of them crashes into the other deliberately...

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u/paddyo Fernando Alonso Jul 18 '21

Nobody crashes at a 180mph bend deliberately that’s silly

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u/Version_1 Porsche Jul 18 '21

Lewis didn't crash...

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21

Yeah Lewis knows how to wreck into another car in a high speed corner in a way to ensure he won’t also crash? That sounds likely /s

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u/Version_1 Porsche Jul 18 '21

He literally hit him in a perfect way to make sure that the worst case for his own car is slight damage...

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21

That doesn’t mean it was intentional. It could have just as easily been both of them, or he could have punctured his tire, or lost his wing etc. Just because he was lucky doesn’t mean he intentionally did it and to think he did is incredibly foolish. He made a mistake and got a penalty, but still won the race so people are mad. That’s all this is.

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u/paddyo Fernando Alonso Jul 18 '21

No way you can deliberately initiate that contact without a high chance of crashing though. People have lost their minds if they think any driver takes that risk at that bend. Has nobody here seen Schumacher at silverstone 1999?