2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Imola, Apr 16 - 18

[falonso81]

Russel just sent a message to Toto. Almost took out both Mercs.

[matt_b]

Is going BACKWARD onto the trace allowed ?
Cause Hamilton did exactly that.

Yes, he was going in reverse. I also thought that was illegal, but I'm not sure.
Anyone knows?

You're allowed to as long as it is safe to do so and looking at the reply it was safe

[214270]

To me that looked absolutely like Russell’s fault.

Agreed. It’s the track kink people are reading as BOT veering sideways.

[Big Tea]

Bottas was quite central to the track, instead of leaving Russell plenty of space...

Not the incident, the reaction.

All drivers will be annoyed when being wiped out at 190 mph!!!

Agreed, but most wont go and slap the helmet of the other guy.
That is not acceptable behavior

[search]

If it’s a grid restart do they reset the lap count?

In other words in your 7th and being lapped then your just 7th and not 7th 1 lap down, etc.

Depends if they let the lapped drivers unlap themselves on the way to the grid. If that's the case then, everyone is back on the same lap.

yeah, just checked the rules, all lapped cars get one lap back and line up at the end:

"At the two (2) minute point any cars between the safety car and the leader, in addition to any cars that had been lapped by the leader at the time the race was suspended, will be allowed to leave the pit lane and complete a further lap, without overtaking, enter the pit lane and then join the line of cars behind the safety car"

[dans79]

Russel just sent a message to Toto. Almost took out both Mercs.

More like give the job to Norris.

[Postmoe]

Bottas veered to the right to protect his ego and put George on the grass!!

So unfortunate for Lewis. He went off line to pass the back marker. It is is not over yet though!

There's no space in Imola and not a lot of room to thing about one's ego. That's a twisted way of looking at things.

[michl420]

Russels DRS was open, this is also a factor for the result.

[JPower]

Not the incident, the reaction.

All drivers will be annoyed when being wiped out at 190 mph!!!

Agreed, but most wont go and slap the helmet of the other guy.
That is not acceptable behavior

You're right but I'll cut him some slack. He's still young trying to prove himself and had a lot riding on this race.

That's racing. If this was NASCAR it would've been a fist fight.

[FrukostScones]

from RAI onboard it looked more like King George lost it by himself.
and anyway, you don't slap a potentially injured driver... , no matter what.

[mkay]

HAM will unlap himself

[langedweil]

Was Russell's fault that Lewis went off too. He slowed down on the dry line just before Tosa. Lewis had to go on the wet line just before a corner!!!

Ham didn't have to pass there, he has brakes you know ...

[sosic2121]

Is going BACKWARD onto the trace allowed ?
Cause Hamilton did exactly that.

Yes, he was going in reverse. I also thought that was illegal, but I'm not sure.
Anyone knows?

You're allowed to as long as it is safe to do so and looking at the reply it was safe

[dans79]

Based on the onboards, bottas left him space, but Russell blinked.

[sosic2121]

Bottas veered to the right to protect his ego and put George on the grass!!

So unfortunate for Lewis. He went off line to pass the back marker. It is is not over yet though!

What is unfortunate about it!?