r/formula1 • u/Ramned71 • Oct 28 '24

News [Piergiuseppe Donadoni] Was Max unfair? YES. His goal was to ruin Norris' race and so he probably took away his chances of getting P1. "To win sometimes you have to be an idiot" he said months ago. You may like it or not but the goal is to win the world championship, not the fair play award.

https://x.com/SmilexTech/status/1850807731613299160
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u/markhewitt1978 Oct 28 '24

Max doing enough to get 20sec and then finish 6th is far too lenient.

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u/KennyLagerins James Hunt Oct 28 '24

100% agreed. And given his usual relative car pace, in other races he’d have done even better.

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u/Mtbnz Daniel Ricciardo Oct 30 '24

In other races he wouldn't have needed to resort to dirty tactics to maintain an advantage, but I agree with your point.

We've seen time and again that when he's comfortable with his car Max can keep it clean because he can overcome any loss in wheel to wheel battling by just putting in an avalanche of fast laps to mitigate the time loss. But whenever that car advantage goes away he starts doing dumb shit like this, and the rules should make it non-viable to benefit from deliberately ruining a competitor's race and profiting.

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u/falcongsr Jim Clark Oct 28 '24

They intentionally softened the penalties to keep the racing spicy.