THE HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX - MERCEDES-RED BULL BATTLE JOINED BY THE GODS, AS BOTTAS BECAME UNINTENTIONAL DESTROYER!! PART 1

 

If you are a conspiracy theorist, or simply superstitious, you could be forgiven for carelessly allowing yourself to conclude that Team Mercedes and their racers, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, have it in for Team Red Bull and their racers, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.

I mean, with Max Verstappen having come of the worst from his brutal encounter with Lewis Hamilton in the first lap of the British Grand Prix. 

By what strange and brutal bad luck could he - along with other hapless racers - have had a second and consecutive major mishap in the first lap of the Hungarian Grand Prix, and with Team Mercedes, again, being the architect of it? 

Yes, at times like these, emotions are likely to taken control of people's brains and tongues. 

As we take, hopefully only temporarily, of our intellect, our normal adherence to logic, especially in the highly technical environment of Formula 1 racing. 

Yes, it is at times like these when we are more susceptible to being superstitious, to succumb to conspiracy theories. 

Times when we might say to ourselves, and even to others, 'that cannot be due to accident', it cannot be only a 'coincidence.' There has to be more to it than meet the eye.

And yet, as shock and anger begins to be abated, and calm begins to return, and the facts are identified and the process of analysing what has happened and how and why.  

We begin to understand why the first impression is not necessarily the right one. 

With the race having to be started in the rain, the conditions had became more hazardous than they would otherwise have been. 

To be continued!