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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: For anyone who wants to know: the FIA's biases cut both ways.
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:48:33 -0700
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According to the FIA report of the recent incident between Hamilton and 
Verstappen on lap 63 of the Hungarian Grand Prix:

"The driver of Car 44 stated that he was simply following his
normal racing line (which was confirmed by examination of
video and telemetry evidence of previous laps)."

Well I captured a couple of stills from F1TV (I didn't know it would let 
me, but right-clicking got me a "Copy Image" command, so...)

Here's Hamilton on an earlier lap with no one close behind:

<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JTCpmBBANeDG9LraZVQ2d03XuSn_KbHm/view?usp=share_link>

Look how far down the kerbing on the outside of the turn his car is.

Now here's the lap where he's just passed Albon and has gone back all 
the way to the outside of the track:

<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m9t-JVnupckLM1uhCEEGw6o-GK2M5bQm/view?usp=share_link>

Here's a still from one lap earlier than the incident, and you can still 
see the back of black (what is probably the last) brake marker board 
just above the "S" of "PETRONAS" on his rear wing.

It's in the same place as where it was when he turned in with no one 
threatening him.

So how the FIA can say they confirm he was taking his "normal racing 
line", I have no idea.

I still put the majority of the blame on Verstappen for braking far too 
late--just just wasn't ever going to be possible to make the corner from 
that late...

....but Hamilton CLEARLY turned in VERY early.

The normal turn-in point from that outside kerbing is close to two 
thirds of the way along it, and Hamilton's turn-in on lap 63 was maybe a 
third of the way down it. Maybe.