From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2023-11-04 10:08, Phil Carmody wrote:   
   > 100% Ocon?   
   >   
   > He was already doing Lada asymmetric braking before he was even alongside.   
   >   
   > Phil   
      
   All I'll say is that Alonso could definitely have left more room. He's   
   on a cooldown lap, so there was no reason to not go as wide as he could.   
      
   If you're going to let a driver on a hot lap go by just after   
   mid-corner, you'd had better leave as much room as possible, because you   
   are putting yourself into the trajectory of that car if the driver   
   screws up.   
      
   Go to the inside before or after a corner? The faster car will almost   
   always move away from you if it loses grip (it COULD do the hookup and   
   spin inside, but it doesn't seem to happen all that often in F1 these   
   days). But to be on the outside of the faster car just beyond the apex   
   means you are precisely where that car will tend to go after a loss of grip.   
      
   Alonso had what looked like at least another car's width of room to his   
   right when Ocon ran into him. Yup. Just review the analysis during the   
   Sprint Shootout and there is MORE than a car's width to the right of   
   Alonso's Aston-Martin.   
      
   So, yes: Ocon's primarily at fault...   
      
   ...but Alonso could have saved his team a whole lot of grief by running   
   through wider than he did, or just slowing more to have come even with   
   Ocon before the apex rather than after.   
      
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