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Esteban Gutierrez got 11th.

Again.

Was gonna recommend Amplitube but since you have Guitar Rig, you'll be fine. It's super cool that you can use your Rocksmith cable to hook a guitar into those applications. Just for practicing and playing at home, it's so much better than blowing a wad of cash on on a practice amp and you have so much more variety available.. I've used my Rocksmith cable 90% to plug into Amplitube and practice on there. Rocksmith itself didn't really grab me but it's fun once in a while.

I asked for the video and article content to be less family-friendly.

Also, according to a 1960s McDonald's ad, hamburgers ARE sandwiches.

@rethla:Because he's gonna hurt someone or get badly hurt himself? He's doing two things that drivers don't do out as a bit of a gentlemen's agreement (because of how dangerous they are), blocking under braking and blocking after the person trying to pass you has already made a move. There's a difference in defending and blocking. What he is doing is not defending, it's blocking. It's banned in IndyCar already. He would have been rear-ended by Kimi at over 350kph if Kimi hadn't been on the ball. A lesser driver would had hit him and got into an incredibly severe crash at top speed. Kimi was going faster than him and he knew Kimi was going faster but he moved in front of Kimi at the last second anyway.

I wouldn't be shocked if the rules were amended to ban what he's doing. A lot of people are already saying that if this type of blocking doesn't get banned, it will once someone gets severely injured in a crash.

Here's a good article on why what he is doing is so dangerous: http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/opinion/f1/does-verstappen-need-be-stopped

@dave_tacitus said:

Did you see Horner during the red flag before he was about to talk to Max? He didn't look very impressed and at first I thought he was going to give Verstappen shit for what he did. It was the same kind of look he had when he was talking to Vettel about Kvyat after Kvyat had crashed into Vettel in the Russian GP (Thinking back to that, you had to know shit was going down if Vettel was going over to the Red Bull garage to talk about the performance of a driver. I do wonder how much influence that had on their decision to demote Kvyat).

And yeah, when pretty much every driver, media personality, and several team principals (including his own) all say that what he did was not good, maybe it's time for him to re-evaluate how he is handling defending position.

Wasn't Rosberg given a penalty for forcing someone off the track in Germany? Verstappen did the same thing here twice and got away with it. He even went off the track himself when he forced Kimi off. You can even see him straighten out his wheel and even slightly turn left in the onboard video. When people saw that same thing for Nico, it was considered slam dunk evidence for a penalty (which he got) and incredibly dirty, yet Verstappen is apparently channeling his inner Schumacher for doing the same thing.

Oh boy that Verstappen interview on Sky. He completely deflected all blame and even tried to blame Kimi for getting run off the road.

Raikkonen is pissed. He sounded kinda fired up in his interview. He said he made a passing move then Verstappen moved in front of him after the move to pass was made and Kimi was going faster. Kimi either had to brake to avoid a collision, or hit Verstappen at full speed. I'd be interested in reading the transcript but it sounded like at the end of the interview that Kimi implied that Verstappen can get away with anything.

@sessh: Exactly!

So running people off the road and moving to block people in braking zones is suddenly acceptable?

He just did it again to Perez, but it backfired this time. I'm waiting for there to be a big crash.

edit: massive lock-up for Verstappen after trying to stay ahead of Vettel. Don't think he'll be fighting the Ferraris anymore until at least the next pit stop.

Verstappen is being ridiculous here. How has he not at least got a warning? He clearly offensively blocked Kimi after Kimi committed to a passing attempt right before a big braking zone. What happened to being allowed one defensive move?

It seems insane that Verstappen is repeatedly doing this stuff in multiple races now and is getting away with it.

Verstappen really seems to like to deflect blame. He did an aggressive move and it didn't go well. That was on him.

Kimi having no luck today. Hamilton having all of the luck instead.

That Magnussen crash was brutal. He looked pretty sore. Wonder if he'll race next week?