r/formula1 • u/BottasWMR 2017 r/formula1 World Champion • Aug 28 '16

Belgium-2016 Belgium race start

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u/mikez2605 Sir Lewis Hamilton Aug 28 '16

Honestly, I think it's part Vettel part Verstappen. Verstappen is naive for going for ever closing gaps, Vettel should not be turning that tight on turn 1 in spa. Raikkonen is just an unlucky passenger in all of this

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u/oh84s Sir Lewis Hamilton Aug 28 '16

Yeah thats my take on it. On initial viewing it looked like Verstappen just threw his car into a closing gap. But on second viewing he had just enough Space until Vettel bumped Kimi into him. But the margins were super super tight and that was always going to be a pretty delicate position.

I would say 60% Vettel, 40% Verstappen. 0% Kimi. Poor Kimi.

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u/Return_Of_The_Jedi Sir Lewis Hamilton Aug 28 '16

Yeah, if Vettel wasn't there Verstappen's move would've worked. It wasn't a bad move by itself.

Vettel was really sqeezing Räikkönen though.

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u/Supremuz Kimi Räikkönen Aug 28 '16

You can say it the other way around tho. Vettel was technically ahead of max so its hard to say. Poor kimi :(

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u/ninxi #StandWithUkraine Aug 29 '16

In the replay you can clearly see it was Seb squeezing poor Kimi and hitting him. Kimi couldn't have reacted, with or without the RB on the inside. The only one not making a clean turn here is Seb. 100% Vettels fault in T1. Whether Vettel was ahead of Kimi and Max didn't matter. Seb with all his experience in Spa should have known better than to move at such an angle to the inside at La Source, let alone if a teammate is on the inside.