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Originally Posted by sarg
The timings of the radio messages are rarely coordinated with the on-track action
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Definitely. And the Stewards will have everything in the correct sequence, unlike the broadcasters.
I read that they saw Verstappen definitely braked (pedal pressure and resulting G were stated in what I saw) while Hamilton was close behind him.
As I think I heard stated clearly afterwards, if both were out of the race that favoured Verstappen, so he had little to lose. Hamilton needed to finish.
The difference these days to the Prost/Senna or Hill/Schumacher era is the amount of data available to the stewards. Those sort of actions would undoubtedly be found out and severely punished.
Here's hoping for a clean and competitive final race. Seems a bit of a vain hope at present though...….
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