WHO’S FAULT WAS THE
ROSSI-WICKENS COLLISION?
THE RACE DECIDING
COME TOGETHER
During the last stages of the 110 lap St.
Petersburg GP, 3 drivers had chance to
win: Wickens, who had the Lead for most
of the race, Rossi at 2nd place and
Bourdais at 3rd. After the race restarted
at Lap 107, Wickens tried to play a trick
to have a good restart: he slowed down
on the exit of last corner, but his trick
fired back, since Rossi was far away from
him and with Wickens’ slow down, Rossi
got closer than ever before, and it was
clear he will go for it! Indeed he tried to
go inside at T1, but lost a lot of grip and
slide straight into Wickens, who spun
and hit the wall. None of them made any
mistakes nor illegal moves: Wickens
gave enough space for Rossi and Rossi’s
attempt was absolutely ok. While it
would be easy to blame Rossi for the
collision, if You ask Me, it was a normal
racing accident, no need for penalties. A
penalty for a collision like this would be
really counterproductive, it would
message “Don’t even try to pass if You
are not 110% sure about the outcome”. In
other words: try only the trivial and
nothing else…
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