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I'm a Grosjean fan, so I rate this crash a 7 out of 10 .

Every time they fight - F1 ratings go up. It's good for the sport - legendary in the making... now, if they could just mount heat-seeking missiles on the cars.

I think we can all agree it's Mazepin's fault

Bottas at the podium: "this.... This is what a happy family looks like?"

I never realized how enormous rear tires were until I saw Lewis' head under one of them!

Honestly, for every big, doubtful incident, this guy is my go-to-guy. Without a doubt the best guy to listen to, as he sits down, analysis, leaves any bias behind (he's even british and has no problem saying it's Lewis' fault in other examples), reflects, compares, takes rules and unwritten rules into consideration. So refreshing every time he posts, compared to seeing all the Lewis fan boys and Max die hard fans on facebook in the comment sections on F1's page just blaming each other and never blaming their own driver, never thinking rationally and properly explaining their view...

Regardless of which who you are a fan of, this has got to be one of the best F1 seasons in a long time

I'm so glad you explained this to us! Thanks. It was a pretty dramatic event in the race! The whole pit fiasco and then this. Good race and glad to see McLaren 1-2.

The sport needed this season so badly. It's gaining viewers rapidly again, full action, spectacular images.. It is just an epic hard battle, instead of the predictable boring (yawn) Mercedes/Lewis dominance. My kids will tell people later that they saw this live. Maxfan or Hamiltonfan... This sells the sport. This is the history of tomorrow.. I got ten years older already and the end of this book isnt even written yet!

Always a super detailed and insightful breakdown! Glad both drivers are okay 🏎️ ❤️

For me, there are three key phases in an overtake- the braking zone, the apex, and the exit. The braking zone determines who is entitled to do what at the apex and the apex determines who is entitled to do what on the exit. If you are not substantially alongside in the braking zone, you are not entitled to contest the corner and the other car does not have to give you space. You cannot just throw it from way back and expect the other car whose corner it is to compromise. If you are substantially alongside in the braking zone then you have to be given room to contest the corner but if not, you have to wait. Assuming the attacking car is substantially alongside in the braking zone then attention turns to the apex. The inside car, whether attacking or defending, determines the racing line going into the apex. It can take any line it wants provided the other car is able to keep two wheels inside the white line. The dynamic then changes again at the apex. At this point, whoever is ahead determines the racing line on exit. If the inside car is ahead, it can run the outside car out of road on exit. If the outside car is ahead, the car on the inside must give it room. For me, Max is not substantially alongside in the braking zone to turn 1 so is not entitled to room on the outside whatsoever. Given that turn 1 feeds straight into 2, this means that he would not be in a position to contest that corner, either. As he wasn't entitled to the space on the outside of 1 that he would need to contest 2, Max ought to have did the switchback on Lewis and out-accelerated him to the next chicane, which he would approach as the inside driver.

I really like how you break down racing situations. It also gives so much insight in how drivers race. This is the level of discussion F1 needs, not all the Twitter garbage.

So what do we remember? Don't even try to make the apex, just go straight for a few meters extra and force the other car to stop or go of the track.

Given how people over on Twitter just continue to shout at one another about who is to blame and who should be removed from F1 due to this incident, I am really happy to hear your commentary on it. Great work!

When you go for a space that turns out not being there, you miscalculated, mis-anticipated, whatever but surely you are in the wrong. You can’t really blame Hamilton for not being as predictable as Max felt he would be, that just doesn’t make any sense. Saying Max did it on purpose is perhaps a bit presumptuous but he surely isn’t blameless

I think the reason Lewis took that line was precisely because he was conscious of the the next "straight" and getting a reasonable exit as I believe he thought Max would back out a tad and then try to use the slipstream into the next set of corners. I think that was a fair strategy to take and I also think Max should have seen this coming. I can also see why he went for it though. As good as Max is I still believe he needs to be stronger at assessing his opponents strategies in wheel to wheel. He often assumes everyone will just back out but he clearly hasn't watched Lewis enough when he's not been in the fastest cars or not had a comfortable lead in the championship. Lewis can make great passes and defensive maneuvers in any given corner but he also thinks 3, or or even 5 corners ahead of him. Especially on that turn 2, saving position there can often set you up to concede it shortly after. The difference in their behaviours is that Lewis in my eyes shows that depth of understanding but Max was only thinking of that single corner. It's not wrong but as a future champion he'd be better served to know exactly when to pick his battles and to acknowledge exactly who he's racing on the day. He says Lewis never gives him space. Fine, take that knowledge and use it rather than running into the same situation repeatedly. They're both great drivers but there are moments that show Lewis as the more complete driver (not free of error). This is one of those if you ask me. Not so much about right and wrong but more about how they treat that one small moment in relation to the other 60 or 70 laps worth of corners and maneuvers. Just my opinion though. He will get it I'm sure but at the moment I can't help but feel he needs to learn that to finish first first you have to finish. I think now Lewis may also have to adjust his way of approaching Max as its clear he'll crash over a sniff of any given corner rather than let it go and live to fight another day. I think Lewis thought Max would make an adjustment after recent events but perhaps equally, that's just not in his driving character. It's interesting watching this unfold. It may be whoever keeps a cooler head in the championship will ultimately prevail simply by bringing points home rather than binning the car on track. We'll see I guess.

"ALL THE TIME YOU HAVE TO LEAV-UH THA SPACE" - Seb Vettel quoting Fernando Alonso.

FINALLY, THE ONLY PERSON WHO COULD GIVE A FAIR OPINION

easy solution that prevents all of this, Verstappen uses the run off like he made Hamilton do earlier in the race. Others had used it many times through practice and qualifying.

Make a video comparing overtakes before and after DRS, please!

I would argue that they're competing for a championship: Max's first and Lewis has a record he's about to break. They are going to more aggressive and harsh with each other.

Thanks for a concise explanation. Imagine Max and Lewis - performing the same reasoning and calculations in about 3 seconds, instead of 13 minutes!

when the cars are so far alongside, I think you simply must leave them a car's width to use, otherwise you are opting into an accident and putting it on the other car whether they want to opt out or not. The only reason they didn't take each other out on the first lap was because Hamilton decided to opt out and leave the track. I guess the argument here is that Verstappen never had the chance to opt out of this accident because he had some space from the first corner, but immediately after the corner you can see where Hamilton's car is going, just like Hamilton could see where Verstappen's car was going on the first lap, and Verstappen had the option then to touch his brakes and concede the corner. But he doesn't do that because he generally always expects the other driver to be the one to relent to avoid the crash. That he has the nerve to then cry about not being left enough space is priceless - given how much of a bully he is on track when it comes to denying space to everyone else. Still, I also really don't like Hamilton's choice to close the door here, mid-corner. When you are alongside, you should always be entitled to a car's width on the track, and that shouldn't be a grey area where opinions can differ.

Scott, I love how you give us little peeks into the way the drivers are thinking, like how you talked about how the bad pit stop didn’t influence Max’s decision to send it. Love what you’re doing, keep up the good work!

The analysis is good and explains how they end up in the situation. The rules don't exactly follow the way drivers interpret the situation though.

Perfectly broken down. 👌

As a racer, I rather choose the escape route , Max could easly past lewis in the next round

Awesome analysis coming from a driver's point of view.

Absolutely cracked the algorithm with this content - timely, good titles, great breakdown. Thanks!!

I will be please to have a video explaining Ocon 5sec penalty against Leclerc VS Hamilton where Leclerc got No penalty

I love this channel, good knowledgable technical analysis and completely impartial. You can’t say this for most of British related F1 media (much more so in the past)

In the first example you said that the guy with the wheel in front controls the corner and yet when Hamilton had his wheels clearly in front on the second example he's meant to take partial blame?

Whenever I hear the phrase "around the outside" I'm instantly thinking of Eminem.

You and Jolyon Palmer; I really enjoy the intricate breakdowns, and driver's perspectives on these types of incidents. Quite informative.

I wonder how drivers of old, say from the 60's, would have reacted to being pushed onto the grass/gravel. Unpopular opinion; I see too many games of chicken these days, shove your car somewhere and wait for the other driver to convert it into 'a great move' by avoiding the crash. Can't wait to see if the new aero regs actually allow more fights based on intelligent cornering like pulling the switcheroo and getting better drive on exit.

Interesting analysis - from the start Max knew it was an opportunistic move, he also knew what he had done to Lewis earlier, so whilst I agree as a racing driver you will go for a gap, if you do that then you need to be able to bail out when it is clear that you aren't going to make it. It seems pretty evident to me that Max could have braked to limit the impact of the sausage kerbs, or could have bailed into the run off area. I get that he will look for every opportunity, but he must have known that this was 'an accident waiting to happen' if he carried on. Damon Hill called it a 'professional foul' and I'm afraid that I think their is an element of this. Max had to get by Lewis and messed up. He deserved at least a 3 place grid penalty as it was utterly avoidable.

Verstappen did the same thing that Lewis did in the accident, at the first lap of the Sprint race, then DR lifted and Gasly went into his tyre, losing the front wing afterwards. Almost ended DR race and we all saw what happened to Gasly. Lewis does the exact same thing the next day and Max says on the radio "that's what happend when you don't leave space". Max is a great driver, I love to see him racing, but it's hard to stay on his side sometimes

The only disagreement I have is when you said that anger doesn't affect these drivers' decision making. Vettel at Baku seems to disprove that 😄

Detailed analysis, insightful. Before I make my final opinion (as your analysis did give me some more details to think about) I wonder what your opinion is on the action from Lewis going into turn 1. I know you mentioned his position is perfect, however please review this against what happened with Max and Bottas at Monza in (I believe) 2019. when Max squeezed Bottas going into turn 1 across the white line. Max got penalized for that then. Now Lewis has forced Max outside the white line as well. Nothing was mentioned about this by the FIA, but did have a direct impact on Max his line, speed and options. Curious to your insights Thanks in advance

Make a video about Schumacher, Senna, Lauda, Vettel and Hamilton their strengths and weaknesses comparing them, please.

12:00 exactly how Hamilton and Norris took the chicane on lap one

i like the auto completion on youtube when you just type verstappen and up comes verstappen lewis crash. at this point you have to specify the year and gp to get what you want

From this, I gather that it's OK to squeeze your opponent out of the corner on one condition.... that condition is, your name has to be Max Verstappen.???

When I was watching the race. Red Bull had that long pit stop. Didn’t Max say on the radio. “ Leave me alone.”. Seems like he was angry at that point. Probably effected his decision making.

"What do you want me to do? Just let the guy win?" Somewhere deep inside, this is what both drivers are asking when they are being criticize by their errors.

The problem lies in the vagueness of FIA's rules on overtaking.

Great insight on the matter. Thanks.

9:50 Is there really space there? With the trajectory of Hamilton’s car it’s clear that there will be no room to pass without going off track

In any case, the crash made the race much more interesting-not for the crash itself, but for the opportunities it opened up for all the other cars on track. The two championship AND constructors‘ championship leaders taking each other out of the equation? Yes please. I got no problem with that (as long as no one gets seriously hurt in the process).

Lewis: haha you are losing Max: you are coming wiith me

5:19 - these drivers are massive professionals?? Have you listened to the chatter on the radio very often? Not only do they hold a grudge multiple laps, sometimes multiple races about the pettiest little stuff.

It's almost as though he didn't read the opinion before doing this vid. The first image he shows 4:05 is AFTER what was the key moment of the incident and was the main point they used in pentaizing Max. in this pic they are well into the turn. The stewards looked at the first moment the track starts turning which is a couple of car lenths before the first picture here. "“Car 44 was exiting the pits. Car 33 was on the main straight. At the 50m board before Turn 1, Car 44 was significantly ahead of Car 33. Car 33 braked late and started to move alongside Car 44, although at no point in the sequence does Car 33 get any further forward than just behind the front wheel of Car 44. “During the hearing, the driver of Car 33 asserted that the cause of the incident was the driver of Car 44 opening the steering after Turn 1 and “squeezing” him to the apex of turn 2. The driver of Car 44 asserted that the driver of Car 33 attempted to pass very late and should have given up the corner either by backing off sooner or by turning left behind the kerb." I've been saying "in the world of Max, all things belong to Max". The stewards are reminding him that they don't. “The Stewards observed on CCTV footage that the driver of Car 44 was driving an avoiding line, although his position caused Car 33 to go onto the kerb. But further, the Stewards observed that Car 33 was not at all alongside Car 44 until significantly into the entry into Turn 1. “In the opinion of the Stewards, this manoeuvre was attempted too late for the driver of Car 33 to have “the right to racing room”. While Car 44 could have steered further from the kerb to avoid the incident, the Stewards determined that his position was reasonable and therefore find that the driver of Car 33 was predominantly to blame for the incident. “In coming to the penalty the Stewards emphasise that they have only considered the incident itself and not the consequences thereof.” The first sentence of this paragraph settles it.

9:53 One thing I'd say although there is physically some space for Verstappen, if he's going to make turn 2 isnt his cars angle is going to be perpendicular to the exit? Just seems like he dive-bombed into a situation that would inevitably cause a collision - unless lewis really avoided inside of turn 2, which obviously when you're fighting for the title you won't yield. Max's post race comments of "two to tango and that he wasn't left space" seem very hypocritical considering past encounters and his style of racing.

The FIA should really do something about the grey area with “leaving a car’s width”. We’ve seen way too many instances with ppl attempting passing around the outside assuming everyone is going to leave them space

5:33 That is nonsense... Do you even hear their radios during races when stuff like that happens?

Tbh, I think your giving Max too much credit. Lewis was ahead and the trajectory of Lewis’s car was always heading to the apex of the T2. Max should have bailed just like Lewis did in L1 but I genuinely think he’d rather crash than lose a corner.

Part of the problem is the cars are way too big, especially for these awesome old circuits

I agree, fully. There's just no logic to leaving a car's width in that situation. It would compromise the exit heavily. IMO, the problem is not Max or Lewis, it's the FIA.

Really good but I’d rather see the track action you highlight more rather than you on split screen, I’m visually impaired and a wee box doesn’t really work for me💕

Excellent analysis. Exactly right - I think. But according to James Allison's (Mercedes engineering boss) opinion after the Silverstone '21 incident it should have been Lewis's mistake. Basically James said at the time - by the way that video is nowhere to be found anymore - that the FIA rules state that if a driver is "significantly alongside" on the inside (of the bend) the corner is his/hers. Now James mentioned this in regard of the Silverstone incident and by doing so implied that it was Verstappens fault that the Silverstone contact actually happened. And the stewards - or Micheal Masi, or both - agreed in their verdict that both drivers were responsible. But Lewis a little bit more - hence the 10 second penalty. So, if all this is correct - and please scold me when I'm wrong - I would say that Max was "significantly alongside" on the inside of turn two; and so the corner was his to take!? Lewis was at fault and should have left room for Max - just like he did after the start when Lando was alongside. But the stewards or Micheal Masi or both decided otherwise again and issued a penalty to Max which is in no way comparable to the 10 seconds Lewis had to endure at Silverstone. I'm lost.

Hamilton gave Verstappen the choice of having a crash or letting him through and Verstappen didn't back down. Damn good racing if you ask me. Not going any further in this comment section, lol. Way too many emotional opinions instead of rational ones

I guess I disagree - in the still where you see them approaching the corner - yes there is space, but equally it's triangle shaped and it's fairly obvious what's going to happen there. Verstappen wasn't ahead. But I think I care less about that and more about the fact that Verstappen just wandered off. If I parked my car on someone's head I'd check to see if they were OK.

The opinion that they are super professional and they remove anything bad from their brain right away kinda goes out the window if you hear any of Max's radio from after the pit stop. The radio messages and the crash shortly after definitely makes him look like he lost his cool a bit

I was slightly ahead so I have the racing line, so I can push someone of is the most used term these days, also the one that disgusts me the most. I get that in some corners it is impossible to see if you only have one wheel next to someone, but half a car is alongside the way I see it. If there is a car half next to you that still means you can't move over in that spot cause its taken. Everyone complains they can't overtake, I've seen multiple possibilities to overtake around the outside this year. But half of them they don't attempt cause they'll get pushed wide and lose, the ones where they went for it and it worked out almost everyone went slightly crazy and loved it, only to critisize someone who tried the same and got pushed of, then they go he went around the outside what did he expect...

Very interesting. I thought Max was overly agressive. He would not have made that turn unless Lewis would be fully going out from his line.

I think that whenever you get passionate fanbases involved is when good sense flies out of the window. The same people crucifying Hamilton for yesterday's incident were hailing Alonso as their lord and saviour for his similar defence against Hamilton in Hungary which was deemed perfectly fair. The only way Verstappen's move sticks in that situation is if Hamilton just lets him go, which he's not obliged to do given he's on the inside line and ahead of Verstappen going into the chicane.

8:00 Wouldn't braking at this point compress the front suspension just as it hit the sausage curb? I can't imagine that would have helped.

I also said it was a racing incident after that race. Lewis had the inside on turn 1 and was slightly ahead but as he let Max go next to him it turned to be a left hander now at turn 2 and Max is on the inside and is at more than the half-car-length aside Lewis. And as you said Lewis is squeezing and letting the space disapear slowly and at that moment when it is turning from turn 1 to turn 2. But Lewis also has the right for the corner 2 because he is ahead slightly. If you are on the outside you need to be ahead, but Lewis is ahead. So it is 2 racing drivers that are both justified to say "it is my corner". And when it happens that they crash on this occasion. I would say it is a racing incident. Not always you need one that is to blame. There are situations were it is just racing.

Great Analysis dude. As a supporter of Max it's obvious difficult for me to be not biased. As a F1 fan i say this is Max fault period.

Max's radio at the time: "That's what what you get when you don't leave the space" Translation: "I'm going to keep putting my car there so it's up to you if we crash" After the race Max said "I thought we were going to have a nice fight into turn1 through turn 2... but of course he ran me a bit too much out of road" Max never seems to leave space for Hamilton in these duels, usually forcing him off track, but then expects Hamilton to leave him space. You can't have it both ways Max. There are probably going to be more crashes as neither man is going to back down now that we're closing in on the last races of the season.

When referring to outside or inside driver, is it dependent on where the turn is? Or it it always the driver farther to the left is the inside?

just a required correction here, Lewis also "missed" the apex of turn 1, and granted he's coming out of the pits, it's clearly a voluntary move (compared to lap 1 situation at turn 4 where they both broke at the latest point possible, so you can explain the missed apex by the sole speed of Max's car). imho, both situations are a tad different. In Lewis position, which was behind Max before the stop, I would have let him pass T1 while getting right behind him to prepare a clean overtake on the straight to T4 (and I'm far from being a 7-times world champion on the track, but I'm sitting in my simrig...). And I don't even consider the question of the blue flag Lewis was presented with, which - even if not being a "lapping-vehicule blue flag" - still requires from the driver getting out of pits to be particularly careful with quicker cars coming from behind. He might have thought his move in T1 was a smart one, but I hope what happened in T2 will have definitely taught him that in order to win a race you have to finish it first... (and i'm even afraid Lewis would have done the exact same thing with no halo on the cars, just imagine the final result of this move...; come on guys, they are not kart racers anymore, millions of kids are watching them)

For me, the funniest thing was how Leclerc showed just a few laps later how you can solve this without crashing

The last time Lewis was aggressive and missed the apex at Copse corner, everyone blamed him for Max's crash. He might have done the right thing this time.

Great analysis mate!

Pushing Max out earlier would have resulted in another Silverston, where Max wouldn't budge wider

Max went into attack full on - Hamilton decided he would defend full on. 2 crazy people next to each other..... Schumacher, Senna and Prost all did it.

That slow mo showed us how great the halo 😇 worked in this situation again.

Awesome video! Anyone any idea how he draw the pictures and edit them in the video?

I can agree and respect all the points put forward in this video. But The most under stated point on this incident is that Lewis was on cold tires how could he possibly expect to turn and be as fast as Max at that early part of his out lap. this really is what is reasonable to expect that a driver has to understand their grip level and therefore performance at any point of the race.

@6:31. That space is always going to disappear especially as it's a left-hander ahead. To me, I've seen lewis bail on corners a few times this year and even in this race, Not Max. Big fan of both drivers, I just don't see how you can say this is okay from Max, He's fine with running a driver off the road earlier in the race yet starting crying cause he's being squeezed out too when he's nowhere nearly level with Lewis until he put it on a kerb. Also not sure about the professional point, I find grand prix drivers to be the ultimate complainer. It might not affect their times but F1 drivers moan about things for laps, we hear it over the telly and didn't Max try to fight Ocon in Brazil hahaha. I think Max would've gone for that move regardless of how long his pit time was tho so I agree with the overall point. @9:51 I dont understand how there is space here. The cars are moving forward here and the edge of the track is ... 1m away? what space? there is nowhere max can go, he's lost the corner imo. By the time contact is made, half of Max's car is off track.

Lol, imagine if you were Lewis rn. Last time they crashed, Hamilton was being more aggressive then usual. This time, he was not aggressive enough. I give up man.

Before even watching the video... I was waiting for this one!

What I get from this is you cannot overtake aggressively. You also cannot block and must allow the faster car to pass if they are fast enough to pass. But if they dont get fully past we argue about who was wrong while neither finished the race.

"That's what you get when you don't leave space." -Max So based on this analysis the correct statement would be: that's what you get when you leave space

9:52 But Verstappen never yields. If Lewis tries to shut the door early doesn't the collision happen earlier and now Hamilton doesn't have the excuse that he was on the racing line?

Great analysis, thanks!

From what you're saying I get the impression that LH wants two things at the same time: 1 pushing MV as much as he can to the run off and 2 keeping the line for a perfect apex in order to run away from MV after this corner. He forgot that MV doesn't want to be pushed and will push back! The result is what we all saw, LH's and MV's car having car sex.

I don’t understand how you can apply the trajectory argument for Max and not for Hamilton in this case, esp when the chicane is converging on turn in. Max came in too hot and was going to force his way or crash.

I’m surprised by this explanation. I don’t really see the difference between the squeezing in the first round. As a Verstappen fan, I think Verstappen is somewhat too agressive. If Hamilton would have squeezed earlier, I can see Verstappen still driving into him.

Terrific explained Driver61, as if you had read my comment before;)

Using the example where max pushed him off was a good example but as he said the turn 1-2 is much tighter. If you look at the replay where lando norris overtook lewis in the same corner. With an simular situation lewis let lando have more space in turn 2 where it was fair.

I've not seen the video yet, but when they showed this overtake LIVE from Max's camera I IMMEDIATELY thought that he would cut the chicane (like ALL other 10 drives in identical overtakes like this did), cause there were no space at all. But when he started turn right, almost going backwards XD, in to the chicane, my brain immediately pictured out the crash seconds before lol. Like WTF did he expect XD.

I never thought that the outside driver going into a turn has no right for the road. It makes no sense. I agree with aggressive driving and battling, but leaving no space for the outside driver is non-sense.

I think you missed a vital point not mentioning Verstappen's radio message immediately after the crash: "That's what happens if you don't *give* me space". MV wasn't thinking "Wow, there's a possible gap but it's tight, I'm going to take it but it might not come off". No, instead he was thinking "I deserve this space, you need to know your place and get out of my way". That sense of entitlement pervades all of his driving, is what leads to outcomes like this, and also drives the petulance we saw after their collision at the British GP.

i cant believe how many people are letting Verstappen off on this one. He was absolutely at fault and he deserves his penalty. Watching it live, I saw Lewis ahead on the entry into turn 1 and briefly though, "that red bull is going to have to either back off, or he's gonna have to use the escape lane across turn 2." But then I realised that it was Max in the red bull and I instantly thought, 'well, HE isn't gonna do either of those things so this will be another crash.' It was obvious before they even turned into 1 that there would be no more gap at the apex of turn 2, but Max just kept his nose in it anyway! Because, just like every other occasion, Max thinks the other drivers have to get out of his way and let him through. It's also very obvious that there was no way Max was going to make it round turn 2 even if he hadn't crashed into Lewis. The corner is far too tight and he was going far too fast to rotate the car at that angle. So he either hits Lewis at the apex or forces lewis and himself into the gravel as he tries to make the exit. It was Max's responsibility to pull out of that battle before turn 2, just like the other 19 drivers would have done. But everyone gives Max a free pass for being a dangerous liability. This video also mentioned the Monza race where Lewis was forced off the track. I guarantee that if the two cars were in each others place then Max would not have left the track and there would have been a crash there too. Max is a complete liability to every other driver and he should be getting penalties each time he endangers other drivers with his "aggressive" driving style.

I think Lewis might not be running wide of the apex in corners because he was penalised for just that at Silverstone.

Thanks Scott. Always interesting to hear your perspective.

As some current and ex-drivers said, sausage kerb should be replaced by grass and gravel, as it was in old days. Gravel slows and destabilizes the car enought so that you as a driver would try to avoid it, and it doesn't damage the car and doesn't acts as a trampoline like a sausage kerb. Wasn't it for sausage kerb, Max would have cut 2nd corner, as Lewis would have pushed him out of the track, and Max later would have been told to let Lewis pass if his move on Lewis would had stuck going out of the corner.