Norris' onboard, there is no upwards jolt of Hamilton's endplate, no abnormal movement of the car, no sign of any impact, especially none which would be hard enough to send a car spinning:
If it was two touches there would be some movement of Carlos' car in addition to his normal rotation before the impact of George's Merc into his sidepod, that is not visible in the offboards:
No such movement of Carlos' car visible in George's onboard either:
We all know the stewards are not infallible but when the incident was noted they only named Sainz as they wanted to check who spun him, so they went through all the footage and came to the conclusion that it was Russell.
But boy oh boy do i love a good narrative.
- just claim something without any definite proof
- use a video which doesn't even show the car which actually caused the collision
- it's hard to disprove because of the angles of the cameras in the available footage:
. - Hamilton's car not visible in Russell's onboard
. - all the offboards are zoomed out and the claimed point of contact hidden
. - Norris' onboard is just blurry enough to make it feasible
- post it repeatedly
thus the impossible to prove and hard to disprove claim becomes just believable enough even when looking at the footage without diving deeper into it looking for clues that show what actually happened, easily believable enough to cause some stirr on social media.
Beautiful.
