Exactly what some of us said yesterday!
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/why-v ... i/6544910/
With his stricken Red Bull still being returned to the garage, the Dutchman suggested that Pirelli would shake off its responsibilities for what happened and claim that debris was the cause.
"For sure [there will be talks with Pirelli] but we know the result from that conversation already and that's a bit hard to accept," he told Dutch TV.
"It will be related to debris, it's like that. I'm sure there will be talks, Pirelli isn't happy with what happened here today, but it doesn't change anything to the race and the result I got here."
Sure enough, when a few hours later Pirelli's initial diagnosis was that suspected debris was the cause of the failures to the Red Bull and Lance Stroll's Aston Martin, it drew a cynical response from Verstappen's father Jos.
Tweeting in reply to a story on Autosport's sister site Motorsport.com detailing Pirelli's explanation, Verstappen posted: "They always say that."
An they are giving the same lame excuses, and double talk. I think a significantly more plausible scenario in this case would be that Lewis ran over debris from Max's accident, since he was only seconds behind.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/pirel ... s/6541845/
Isola said a cut found on the left rear that came off Lewis Hamilton's car after the red flag indicated that a similar issue may have affected the other drivers, but in the world champion's case it had not compromised the construction.
"It was on the rear left tyre, that is not the most stressed here, because it's the rear right. And the other point if we talk about wear, the most worn tyre is the front right. So it is not a matter of wear.
"Another element that is important is that we found on the rear left tyre of Lewis Hamilton, another cut, quite a big one. This was at the red flag, so in the same stint where Max crashed.
"I believe it was debris, because they didn't have any warning that there was something strange on the car, on the suspension, on the tyre, on the brake, nothing was giving any sign of failure. And it was a sudden failure.
"So considering the rear left is not the most stressed tyre, the cut we found on Lewis's tyre and so on, these are indications that are taking us in that direction.
"But we don't want to exclude anything because as Max said, these things shouldn't happen."
Yet as was shown yesterday, even when Bottass hit a massive chunk of debris, the tire didn't instantly cause an accident.
Max will need some bad luck from Hamilton to counter balance the imense luck LH had yesterday and on Imola. Similar to Sepang 2016 countered the bad luck Rosberg had on Austria where Vettel´s tyre blow out damaged his car and, ultimately, took many points away from Nico on that race.
