Hamilton's Driving

Fandango; Normally I'd be with you 100% - Lewis is a spoilt brat who often takes his desire to win too far, both on and off the track.

However today he has been the victim. The pit lane release (even in slow motion) was split seconds apart and as has already been pointed out, Seb moved into him Vettel was also involved at the last turn, trying to get under him. 3 into 1 doesn't fit and Mark came off worse. The fault there lies with the organisers choice to place the green flag line there.

If anything I would say the Button/SC moment is more worthy of interest to the stewards. its F1, Not Formula Ford - in fact I recall a similar incident at Oulton and it may well have been Jenson leading the pack then as well - I'll double check that before I start pointing fingers.

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Originally Posted by tamburello

The pit lane is not part of the race track.

A ban would be reasonable.

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Amen - Vettel deliberately turning into him and pushing him into the pitlane was unforgiveable.

Same for Fred.

still Vettel got away infront of Lewis exiting pits, it was tenth of seconds timing of release of both drivers, we have seen far worse issues of similar kind before.. so whats the problem ??
a lot of people tend to think Button / Vettel ahead of Hamilton, but I will eat my hat of Hamilton not going to finish ahead of either these guys by end of the season..

Anyone with a video link? The Alonso-Massa incident in question was in the middle of an ad break, hence, wasn't shown.

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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel

Anyone with a video link? The Alonso-Massa incident in question was in the middle of an ad break, hence, wasn't shown.

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why the hell you want to repeat Massa's regular driving on grass.. utter rubbish wet-racing from him, very disapointed.

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Originally Posted by rohanweb

why the hell you want to repeat Massa's regular driving on grass..

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What you're saying does not make sense.

A reprimand? What a joke.

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Originally Posted by Sonic

Fandango; Normally I'd be with you 100% - Lewis is a spoilt brat who often takes his desire to win too far, both on and off the track.

However today he has been the victim. The pit lane release (even in slow motion) was split seconds apart and as has already been pointed out, Seb moved into him .........

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Yes, Vettel moved across to block Hamilton. But Vettel didn't cross the white line, did he? Vettel stayed driving within the area set out for cars to drive down the pit lane. Hamilton came out sideways from his pit and then proceeded to challenge as they went down the pitlane. But Vettel was ahead, and Hamilton was warned about his tactics in the last race. Do warnings not count for anything?

The reason I started this in a separate thread is precisely because Hamilton's win at all costs tactics are becoming an issue from one race to the next. If a driver gets a warning at one race, and then acts like this in the next race, surely some kind of suspended sanction is necessary? I'll be amazed if he doesn't get something from the stewards, and then it'll only be a matter of time before he's at it again.

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Originally Posted by tamburello

A reprimand? What a joke.

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I am guessing that it was based on the following reasons -

Once Hamilton was alongside Vettel (which he ideally shouldn'tve been, but it can happen) the space between them was that small, especially after Vettel moved over, that if Hamilton backed off they might've interlocked wheels, which would've been very dangerous. It was a deadlock, as far as the drivers were concerned.

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Originally Posted by tamburello

A reprimand? What a joke.

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I am very happy that there are no penalties. Once again the new FIA under Todt shows that it does not want to mess with the race results. That's what I hoped to see from Jean!