Max Verstappen yesterday after the national anthems he left the podium of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. The Dutch driver was penalized by five seconds during the race for having cut Curva-2 in an attempt to resist Lewis Hamilton, then the Commissioners also analyzed the collision between the Dutchman and the seven-time world champion, adding another ten seconds of penalty. to the Red Bull driver for causing a collision.
The Red Bull rider underlined that only he is penalized unlike Lewis Hamilton, with Helmut Marko who in turn highlighted the fact that the perception is that of a different yardstick by the Commissioners towards Red Bull compared to Mercedes. . For his part, Lewis Hamilton has rightly reiterated that he must always avoid contact in the race between him and Verstappen when the two find themselves fighting wheel to wheel. Faced with Verstappen’s ‘trap’ that he wanted to give him the position before the Detection Point, Hamilton simply made it clear that “It’s not stupid”. Leo Turrini in his editorial on The Rest of the Carlino underlined an important aspect, namely the fact that the extreme competition between the two drivers, inserted in a context of far west regulation, has debased what could have been a memorable championship, now overtaken by a ferocity that has crossed common sense. Here are some excerpts from Leo Turrini’s commentary.
“[…] Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen add up a ferocity that has now gone beyond the limits of common sense. I have already written that Senna and Prost also went down in history for their accidents. But they were two in four years. […] Fatally, a situation of extreme danger is created. Situation, it is necessary to add, badly governed by the referees. […] I doubt that the epilogue will be a hymn to the values of sport: here all the benchmarks have now been skipped. […] Next Sunday Formula One will surely break all audience records, the event will turn into something to remember for decades to come. As an enthusiast and as a keeper of the racing memory, I should be happy with that. Instead I ask myself: was it worth it? Even better: it was true glory? “.
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