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Originally Posted by nasportscar
it's 100% a racing incident and clearly not intentional.
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Not intentional != racing incident.
None of that section of track is straight after braking for turn 1 until you brake for turn 4 (and even that's at a diagonal to the apex).
Surely Mike didn't do it on purpose as he's a very clean racer, but it was an honest mistake. He didn't realize Alvaro got such a good run out of T1 (it's hard to put the power down there, which is why most people run wide on the exit) and simply wasn't expecting him to be there. He was thinking about attacking the leader in T4 (which is why he tried to get such a wide entry into T3) and not about those behind (or next to him in this case).
It was a mistake and Alvaro and KPAX paid a HUGE price and he got penalized.
-mike