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It definitely makes things even spicier. It’s also very interesting due to how max, Horner, and red bull in general reacted to what happened at silverstone, which was a very similar situation, I wouldn’t be surprised if Mercedes’ are making this point privately.

Red bull wanted a harsher penalty applied to Hamilton (he got a 10 second penalty iirc), whether anyone agrees with penalising him or not, but in a similar scenario, red bull were pushing for a ‘let them race’ mindset to be applied. The big difference is clearly the aftermath, but are red bull seriously trying to say that because Hamilton avoided a collision then there shouldn’t be a penalty?
Oddly it was Michael Massi that seemed to think that as both ran off the track that was what made the incident OK and not deserving of a penalty…totally missing the point that Hamilton was only there because Max put him there!

It’s also curious as to how much Massi has had to say on this. It’s normally the Stewards the decide if there is an investigation to be had and Massi as race director has zero input. But even on the radio to Red Bull at the time he seemed quite open in saying he saw it as ‘one of those things’ when in reality he should be stating totally neutral and letting the Stewards explain the why’s and why not’s.

And yeah Red Bull are the masters of changing their view depending on their perspective but let’s be honest that’s the same for most sports and has always been the way in F1!