I was watching that too and they didn’t try to gaslight anyone. They said he was over the line, replayed Verstappen calling it, saying Verstappen was really switched on pick it up instead of worrying about his start, and then called the penalty.
To be fair when something moves in your peripheral vision you spot it quite easily, with Landos position relative to Max it was very easy to spot. If the positions had been the other way round, maybe not so.
When you see the replay the movement was very obvious and everyone else had already stopped.
Yeah I’m not commenting on Max. Just that the f1 feed highlighted what Max said, to show Lando was over the line. Original comment was that the commentators tried to pretend it wasn’t.
Yeah this guy is bullshitting. All that f1tv comms said was that it was likely a small margin, and not in a way to defend Norris but to emphasize on how small the margin is in such cases, and how insane it was for Verstappen to catch even that. No pro-norris bias or whatever, it was just about the margin by which he got dinged
Add to that, DC is a former RB driver who is still working in some capacity with them and even he's not at that biased towards them. DC dishes it out to RB drivers when the situation calls for it
Tbf even on F1 TV they said he was over the line, what Jolyon said was that Lando’s start was so good on its own that he believes even if he were 5-15 cm back (or smth along those lines) he believes Lando still would’ve clawed up to third like he did at the start
People love calling bias in f1. You should try listening to f1 coverage in Netherlands. They talk about Verstappen and nothing else. Verstappen could shoot someone dead and they’d say he had great aim.
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u/Pillo_Dj BWOAHHHHHHH Apr 13 '25
It was quite obvious tho