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Originally Posted by rusnak
I'm sure the stewards have looked carefully at all the video and telemetry, but that looks like a tough call from the TV footage. Perez was against the right side of the track. He'd be in the grass if he was any more to the right.
Massa - Perez crash Canada 2014 - YouTube |
Watch Perez's onboard, Perez moves away from the outside to block, but Massa was already there. Seems on top of Pereze straightening the wheel to move to the left of the track, the car's got aerodynamically pulled together, so Perez's car reacts to the straight wheel(with large amounts of toe out geometry allowing the car to wander) by getting pulled into Massa's, and Massas, pulled into Perez.
If Perez had of kept the wheel into the corner, they wouldn't of hit *like that*.
Whether Massa could of made the next corner, is an unkown, Perez moved too late to cut off a perhaps overzealous pass, and the overzealous pass combined with a overzealous block = wreck.
Watch this.
http://youtu.be/_0PuSoufowQ
You'll clearly see Perez is not near the grass, and in fact, goes completely off line to cut Massa. It was a move too late.
Tough call, agreed. Whether to make a call on it or not, would depend on if Massa could actually brake for the next corner or not.