I re-watched it and:GrizzleBoy wrote: Preeeetty sure Rosberg turned in on Massa on lap 1?
They let Romain go with Button because Romain basically had the move done and the places were decided already. He didn't need to squeeze Button so much to get the move done, it was just an "unfortunate consequence" of his driving.
With Massa, I'm willing to bet that both Ferrari and McLaren were lobbying extra hard at this point and something had to be done. Also he did pass off the track, but you could also say that he did it so as not to cause a collision, which is also true. He committed to the move and there was a car sharing the racing line that he couldn't make disappear.
- yes and no but I'm not going to argue about it; yes - earlier RG was effectively in front, Button was going nowhere and forced the issue, then there was a move and contact, no - because it was partly forced by Button's position, there was no way he would have made a corner from the position he was in. Nothing changes: racing incident, fake outrage from Button to cover his part of the blame, Grosjean guilty too of course, but they ignored positioning and who was in front at respective times applying penalty. "No" part because it was a penalty in the end.
- Hamilton pushed Webber off more than in the above situation, to be clear I'm not complaining and he was more in front, just a proof that it happens all the time, they are forcing positions on each other all the time, Webber had to go off the track to avoid contact or slow down earlier - same as Button.
- Local commentators are funny, when it's their driver (LH) it's brilliant when it's not theirs (RG) they're downplaying it as 'Massa being "compliant"' Really, and Webber wasn't by going off the track? There was less room and help from the other driver in the 2nd situation, if it's not their driver it's the car, if it's theirs pure skillzzz
- Massa overtake - pretty clear but close, still it was nice to watch, but:
- v. good point above about leaving space, I hadn't thought of it, if there was one reason to let it go that was it, this formal car's width while in front, he had to take that line with Massa's wing right beside while being in front, literally couple of cm missing because of that.
