• For anyone who wants to know: the FIA's biases cut both ways.

    From Alan@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 23 14:48:33 2024
    According to the FIA report of the recent incident between Hamilton and Verstappen on lap 63 of the Hungarian Grand Prix:

    "The driver of Car 44 stated that he was simply following his
    normal racing line (which was confirmed by examination of
    video and telemetry evidence of previous laps)."

    Well I captured a couple of stills from F1TV (I didn't know it would let
    me, but right-clicking got me a "Copy Image" command, so...)

    Here's Hamilton on an earlier lap with no one close behind:

    <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JTCpmBBANeDG9LraZVQ2d03XuSn_KbHm/view?usp=share_link>

    Look how far down the kerbing on the outside of the turn his car is.

    Now here's the lap where he's just passed Albon and has gone back all
    the way to the outside of the track:

    <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m9t-JVnupckLM1uhCEEGw6o-GK2M5bQm/view?usp=share_link>

    Here's a still from one lap earlier than the incident, and you can still
    see the back of black (what is probably the last) brake marker board
    just above the "S" of "PETRONAS" on his rear wing.

    It's in the same place as where it was when he turned in with no one threatening him.

    So how the FIA can say they confirm he was taking his "normal racing
    line", I have no idea.

    I still put the majority of the blame on Verstappen for braking far too late--just just wasn't ever going to be possible to make the corner from
    that late...

    ...but Hamilton CLEARLY turned in VERY early.

    The normal turn-in point from that outside kerbing is close to two
    thirds of the way along it, and Hamilton's turn-in on lap 63 was maybe a
    third of the way down it. Maybe.

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