Hamilton's Driving

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Originally Posted by airshifter

I agree. When I watched the action in slow motion there was already contact between Hamiltons front tire and Vettels rear at about the time Hamilton got going straight, as Vettel was squeezing him in. In that posted photo Lewis is already to the right of the pit lines, and the only way to give Vettel more room would be to move farther into the pit box areas.

It's not as if Lewis had any safe way to lift and allow Vettel to move forward to he could tuck in behind him. To do so would have risked more contact between the two cars potentially sending the cars into the wall filled with team engineers, or the pit boxes or garages filled with mechanics.

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Fair point actually.

I guess then it becomes a question, which cannot be answered, of whether Hamilton would have yielded had Vettel moved over to the left and given him racing room even though effectively having the inside line to the next turn.

And BOTH drivers got a reprimand! Why are we still beating this dead horse???

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Originally Posted by truefan72

In a race where Button nearly causes a wreck at restart

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Or, the drivers behind hav forgotten how to queue. They need to have lessons at my local Sainsbury's.....spend your life queueing there before some acne riddled 16 year old just about manages to mutter something resembling 'alright'..........

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

And BOTH drivers got a reprimand! Why are we still beating this dead horse???

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'cos we've all finished picking our noses/scratching our nuts and are bored????

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Originally Posted by tamburello

I wasn't aware you shared Wilko's views, Sonic. In fact, I never thought you did or would.

In fact, I put you in a much higher class than his sort.

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I'm honored to be mentioned as a third party, thanks Tambourine.

My sort are easily pleased.

Mwaaaaaahhhhhh. ;)

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Originally Posted by Sonic

:rolleyes: If his sort don't call people names based on little more than their nationality then, tes I'm right on board with Wilko's class.

Peace and love. :)

Sonic out.

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According to Tambourine, I am a racist, bigot (and probably a smallot too...) I have three eyes and 6 toes.

Still, I have my cough splutter health! :laugh:

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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel

That makes it more the fault of those who released him into the path of another car than his.

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Doh! He was not released into the path of another car though, was he? Lewis unfortunately lit up the rear wheels and was slow away. Were it not for that, he would have been ahead.

They were both in the wrong for what ensued - 6 of 1, half a dozen of 'tother.

Now, how's that volcano doing?

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Originally Posted by Ari

particularly after his 'talking' at the conclusion of the last Grand Prix.

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Because that was last race, not this one....??????

Doh!

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

...the replay clearly shows that he got released mere tenths after Vettel but got a shocking getaway, putting them side by side. With their tyres interlocking there was no way he could brake and get out of it. Vettel then attemped to push him into the mechanics' slow lane

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That describes the incident very clearly :up:

As one of the commentators said Hamilton was never going to overtake anyway because of the pit lane speed limiter. Vettel squeezing the McLaren across the pitlane was dangerous and totally unnecessary.

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Originally Posted by Ari

BUT why were they still side by side down the pit lane??

I agree that they were released very close to the same time. Vettel marginally before, but as they said on the BBC you can't expect a lollipop man to be checking not just pit lane but everyones pit box. That was excusable.

What was NOT excusable was that Vettel was a 2 metres ahead of Hamilton AND on the driving part of pitlane. Hamilton was on the side of pitlane, outside white lines and marginally missing airguns and all sorts.

It was ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE for Lewis to race in that fashion which he did. He should have backed off immediately seeing that Vettel was ahead of him and that he had no lane. Instead he raced all the way down pitlane side by side amongst mechanics and air guns etc.

For those saying that Vettel moved over.... why shouldn't he!? Hamilton had no lane! Why should Vettel try to accommodate someone who is somewhere they simply shouldn't be.

Fact is that Hamilton did the wrong thing and, being the FIA loveboy that he is, managed to get away without a penalty of any sort.

ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION. Simple as that. There is no excuse for what happened. Yes the release was very close to the same time but Hamilton, seeing that he had no lane, should have backed off and moved in instead of fishtailing (he's good at that) down pit lane amongst the other team space.

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Very good post!