Felipe Massa and Sergio Perez Crash: Were Stewards Right to Punish Mexican?

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Published: June 9, 2014

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When a group of cars is separated by less than a second for an extended period of time—as Sergio Perez, Daniel Ricciardo, Sebastian Vettel and Felipe Massa were in the latter stages of Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix—a collision is almost inevitable in modern Formula One. 

Perhaps it is because the safety standards of the sport are so high nowadays and therefore encourage drivers to take greater risks, placing their cars in positions that would have been unthinkable in previous eras.

Perhaps it is due to the psyche of the modern F1 driver: his aggression, his recklessness, his clumsiness.

Whatever it is down to, you just knew whilst watching Perez, Ricciardo, Vettel and Massa fight for the same piece of asphalt that at least one of those drivers would make some sort of mistake and that at least one of those drivers would not make the chequered flag.

In the event, it was Perez and Massa—the most likely pairing of that particular train of drivers to have an accident—who ended up in the wall on the very final lap of the race.



The incident itself, which saw both cars plough into the tyre wall after the front wing of Massa's Williams made contact with the rear-left tyre of Perez's Force India on the pit straight, was among the most violent crashes in recent history. 

Sky Sports' James Galloway and William Esler described how Ted Kravitz revealed the true scale of the accident, claiming that Massa experienced "a force of 27G" when the Brazilian's car slammed to a halt in the wall.

And Massa was convinced the blame lay at the feet of Perez, with the Williams driver quoted by ESPN F1 as stating:

I talked to him from the hospital to the track. I was so disappointed with him. He needs to learn and I wanted him to be in my position, because I had a huge crash and I wanted him to be on my page to see if he learns.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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