'In the context' there's no context that excuses Esteban's actions in Monaco. Pierre wasn't attacking him at all. Pierre and Esteban had been told that there were team order in place for them to hold. Esteban ignored this from corner 1. Australia 23 wasn't a team order being ignored, when Pierre is given team orders he bitches but follows them. Esteban is incapable of following an order unless he's in front. It's insane.
This is confusing message to me, because I've been quite tight lipped about the incident and what followed, even though the bad feeling around this situation sat with me all week, and in the post(s) that I wrote I don't really think I made excuses for Esteban, so I don't really understand why you sent this to me specifically.
I thought it was quite clear both in my og post and especially in the tags of the 2nd reblog, that I thought Esteban fucked up in Monaco, even mentioned that I would be totally fine with him getting monetary punishment from the team, my problem was at the time, the 2nd reblog was made like and hour/hour and half after the race iirc, that the reactions to the incident were getting out of hand and were completly over the top, over something that I don't think was that bad.
The context to me was important, because of the way people were talking about the situation, which I personally don't think was worse, than Australia, where they suffered heavy damage for both cars and lost out on a good chunk of points there, while Alpine ended Monaco with what was realisticly possible, 1 point, plus some damage, which is not ideal, but I don't think it deserves public flogging.
Esteban can and did follow orders in the past, they just never get highlighted, so I disagree with your assesment, also the only one who straight up mentioned teamorders afaik in Monaco is Pierre, Famin's comments were way less concrete and Esteban denied going against the instructions that he was given...
