I know its a bit late, but I missed quali and only now saw the vid of the schumi event.
The link earlier in this post only shows schumi but another one shows an onboard shot from Alonso, so its possible to compare the lines and speeds.
I watched this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzkvf...acher%20monaco
I spent some time watching the onboards of Schumacher and Alonso.
Up to a point just before turning Schumacher's and Alonso's cars where on the same line to the corner, so talk about him taking too tight a line is BS.
To me it seems as if Schumacher just turned in a fraction to early, made a reflexive correction to the left and then skid when trying to go around the corner.
I can see it as an accident. I've done similar things myself in the Porsche (Not comparing myself to MS, just stating that that specific sequence happens.).
I think what several people may forget is that an F1 car has zero grip when its going slow. So locking up in that slow corner with no downforce is not that strange.
That initial corrective jerk to the left compromised the corner entry angle, so its quite probable that he could not turn sharp enough afterwards to make the corner.
F1 cars do not have tight turning circles and his left fron wheel really seems up to the barrier at full lock to me. Lightly, yes, but still touching.
Also to me it seems as if he is really trying to engage reverse to get out.
He can't see back around the corner, so concerns about traffic and the danger to reverse seem very justified to me.
At the speed around Monaco that whole corner takes a second only.
So I'd like to see anyone try correct an unexpected situation like that in a 3rd of a second.
Really, the only question is why the early turn in. And there are a few possible explanations for that.
According to the telemetry he braked harder there than earlier. So a possible explanation is that he was going faster than before initially, prompting desperate push of the brakes and then slower after the brake, prompting the early turn-in.
Furthermore it wasn't that long until Alonso arrived at the scene. 20sec only.
Even if MS had engaged reverse, he would have been directly in Alonso's way had he reversed.
In the end my opinion as that this was a witch hunt, in my mind confirmed by Flav's sudden magnanimous treatment of MS now that Alonso has won.
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