what do you mean? you can chose your line at any point in time, obviously not after a car is already there
How can people not understand the basic driving rules that MS broke.
1: You can not reactively block another car. That is you can not look in your mirror and move in a way that positions your car in response to the overtakers car. You can choose your line and stick to it, but you can not choose your line in reaction to the car behind choosing their line. MS was clearly looking in his mirror and changing the position of his car in response to the movements of RB. Its blocking and its illegal.
but other than that what on earth does that mean "not reactively" it's defensive, it can be reactive, it's not blocking as long as it's 1 move
Count how many moves "clean and gentleman driver" Damon makes here
if it has the same effect as weaving why wasn't it treated like weaving was?
2: You can not slowly drive diagonally across the track. You can pick a line on the outside, middle, inside etc, but you must get in that position and then drive straight. You can not start on the outside and slowly over several seconds move diagonally across the track to the inside. It completely blocks the track as very rarely will an overtaking car have enough speed to make the pass before you have squished them to the side of the track, leaving them to brake or crash. It has the same effect as weaving, as the overtaking car can not dash past before you have covered their part of the track. (Hence why RB nearly ended up in the wall)
just curious, you are the one saying it's the same, not me. we've got weaving a few months ago and it was breaking a tow and a warning...
from my point of view you can drive whatever line you want as long as you leave a car's width between you and the white line to somebody that already is there (which ms obviously didn't leave)
this is extremely difficult to police and was never applied this way.
3: What can often be a natural result of the two violations above is in effect not changing your line once, but gradually choosing multiple lines as the car moves across the track. Instead of moving from line A to line B (and therefor being one change of line), the practice of responding to the car behind can lead to faster and slower changes of direction creating several different lines between A and B as the car moves to the right, then more to the right, then a bit more right, then a lot more right etc. Just because a car is moving in only 1 direction does not make it only 1 change of line. Going right and left is two changes or line, but going right then more right is still two changes.
all these 3 are very debatable in the context of what was allowed in f1 racing until now
3 driving violations and he hasn't even got to the wall yet.
ms left it too late and rubens wanted to prove a point. ok, case closed, point proven etc
the only thing is that in future the same type of offence will be punished the same way...but I fear it will not and we will get some excuses like
-crowding outside the track is ok, there was no wall there
-the wall is there but the speed was smaller
-he has given 10cm more than ms has, it doesn't matter that the speed was the same
-his name is not ms