Swango1980
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It is true, they did not. They had no defence, the Mercedes was much quicker. The defence is to force the overtaking driver to take as wide a line as possible, and keep them wide by taking the inside of the corner. Or, let them charge up the inside so that they exit the corner wide, hoping to get back up the inside of them after exiting the corner. Both may be futile options if the overtaking car is much quicker, but it at least makes it trickier for them. Max did neither. Would he have done the same thing if there was a wall on the outside of the bend, or a tyre barrier? I doubt it, he would have gone straight into it himself.Watch Max’s car and his steering inputs ..
Another interesting observation was that most of other drivers did not put up any form defence .. Which kind of sums up F1, DRS and fixed engine regs
Can we analyse Max's braking inputs, I assume that is relevant?