The Formula One championship could easily be decided on Sunday by a crash between the top two drivers—rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. It wouldn’t be the first time.
Lewis Hamilton stood on the podium’s top step in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia last week, shaking a bottle of nonalcoholic sparkling stuff in celebration. His rival Max Verstappen stood on the second step pointedly staring into space, before storming off stage.
There is, however, one more option — and it’s only open to Verstappen. He could, quite simply, drive into Hamilton. Because he owns the tiebreaker between the two, having won one more race than Hamilton this season, he doesn’t need them both to cross the finish line. If neither man completes the 58 laps in Abu Dhabi, the title would go to Verstappen.
“Max wants to win this championship on the track,” Horner told the Times of London this week. “It’s as simple as that. He’s a hard racer but a fair racer, and I expect no different this weekend. Nobody wants to win this championship in a gravel trap or in a stewards’ inquiry.”would have thought it was a little too on the nose for “Drive to Survive.” Hamilton is the Mercedes team’s 36-year-old, seven-time world champion bidding to become the greatest driver of all time.
Not everyone has always felt that way about their closest rivals for the championship. Michael Schumacher won the first of his seven world titles in 1994 after running into Damon Hill in Adelaide, Australia. He insisted it was a racing accident, but Hill never forgave him. In 1989, Senna needed to take first place to leapfrog Prost in the standings. But late in the race, Senna tried to overtake the Frenchman by going up the inside of a corner. Faced with a choice between letting him through and causing a crash, Prost chose the latter. He turned his steering wheel hard to the right and sent both cars onto the gravel. Prost thought he had become world champion right then and there.
The next season, when Prost and Senna locked horns for the championship in Japan again, Senna wasted no time. With Senna ahead in the standings, the two drivers crashed in the first corner of the race.
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