Ok, in the interests of fairness, here is the incident from my perspective.
From the onboard shot you see that as my car travels towards him I actually have opposite lock on, so I didn't turn into him. From the external view it shows the cause of me moving right was contact between our rear wheels.
My opinion is this.
-Chris leaves a car width for Gary on the inside
-Gary moves to the right as far as he can, and both continue in a straight line
-Adam Vaughan appears to Chris' left, and Chris instinctively edges right to give him space (just like you put your hand up to defend your face if something is thrown close to it, or you duck if a bird flies up in front of you on the road)
-Chris makes contact with the rear wheels of Gary's car, Gary gets hit because the wheels interlock and Chris, although trying to countersteer, is unable to avoid contact
-Gary then swerves back into Chris in an immediate retaliation.
To surmise:
- Chris should have given Gary more room
- Chris shouldn't have edged right as Adam came into view
- Chris' contact with Gary was not deliberate, but that doesn't mean to say that he shouldn't have left more room
- Gary retalliated immediately with a deliberate hit on the side of Chris' car
Basically, it's a racing incident and neither should get a penalty. View the incident again guys, the original video doesn't show the steering traces of Chris. I would like to see the onboard from Gary being posted where he swerves back into Chris, because watching the replay that's pretty blatent. If Chris does get penalised, then I would like to see a similar punishment for Gary because both make contact with one another twice, one is Chris' fault, and one is Gary's fault (Gary's is intentional, Chris' was a reaction to another car appearing and a misjudgment on how much room he left Gary).
