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I put the fault on Massa. Sure it was a racing incident I but I believe in the lightning theory:
"Even if it's not your fault, it's your fault."
In the road racing forum there have been discussions about driving on the "wrong side of the slip angle curve" and I can use that as a metaphor to say that Massa races on the wrong side of "risk/reward curve" when he's next to other drivers. Most of his incidents that are not his fault, kind of are his fault.
On this one, you're starting a race, there's lots of cars all compacted at the apex of the first corner and that means you CANNOT go from the outside back down to the apex and expect nobody to be occupying that portion of space and time. When he made contact with Perez on the last lap a few races back.. they might put the blame on Perez but Massa made that move closer than was needed.
If you ever wonder why some drivers have terrible luck and others never seem to, it primarily rests with their level of awareness, their respect for physics and how they approach the risk/reward curve. I think Massa thinks he's better than he is and he's not adhering to at least 2 of those 3 things because he's driving beyond his talent.
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