basti313 wrote: ↑02 Sep 2018, 09:44
Schuttelberg wrote: ↑02 Sep 2018, 02:28
I just saw qualifying and refrained from listening or seeing anyone that knew about it. Can someone please tell me what the hell was going on between Alonso & Magnussen? 25 years of watching racing and I've not seen two blokes from separate teams squabble like that in the midfield and then behave like children after that?
That was ridiculous from Alonso:
Instead of going for slipstream as everyone else,
Alonso was trailing along before parabolica. So Magnussen overtook him and got a nice gap to the car in front. Alonso would simply need to use a usual Q pace through parabolica and would have had a good gap as well.
Instead Alonso stepped immediately on the pedal and tried to stay as close as possible to Magnussen. Then overtaking attempt into turn 1.
The worst part in turn 1 and 2: Alonso locked his brake in turn 1. Instead of going straight he turned in, went over the sausage curbs and rejoined right at the apex of turn 2. There were already crashes and penalties for such a line at the race start. Rejoining on the apex of turn 2 is nothing else, but stupid or an intentional attempt to crash the car. I have no idea how Alonso can go with this without a severe penalty.
The bolded part is the key here. Every car slows down before parabolica to get some space to the car in front, so they don´t start their fast lap on dirty air. Then the car behing can overtake him because of this, but there´s a gentlemen agreement wich states the car behind will not overtake, as all of them need some clean air so it would be utter nosense to use something they all need to do to take advantage and ruin the car you´re overtaking fast lap
But Magnusen broke the gentlemen agreement and overtook Alonso, ruining his fast lap. Then Alonso, who had nothing to loose as he already was on a positioin much better than expected, decided if he couldn´t do another fast lap because of Magnussen, Kevin wouldn´t take advantage of breaking that gentlemen agreement.
Some will call that instant karma for Kevin, he chose a bad enemy to ruin his fast lap and got what he did deserve