A lot of people simply hate Lewis or hate Nico and that influences their view. I like both of the Mercedes drivers and hated to see this whole thing happen at all. As such, I think I can look at the video and have an unbiased view. I also have a little experience in a race car, not that it matters, but I understand how some of this stuff works.

I was a big fan of Keke and really wanted to see his son succeed. Some of you might remember (or not) that I was willing to give Nico the benefit of the doubt after Monoco, and I did not want to believe what I was seeing yesterday.

Why would you crank the steering wheel toward your teammate unless that's where you wanted to car to go?

No matter how you look at it, there is no getting away from the fact that Nico cranked the wheel over hard toward Lewis, when all he had to do was crank left and go around the next corner, or at least over the curb and avoid a collision. While this doesn't prove Nico hit Hammy on purpose, there is no doubt Nico did absolutely nothing to avoid the collision.

Backing up a bit, Nico has gone off the track a few times (aside from Monoco) in qualifying this year. Once was Hungary, and there was another incident where I can't remember the track. In both instances, there was none of the weird back and worth sawing of the steering wheel like there was when Nico went off at Monoco. It looked weird at the time, but now that I have less faith in Nico's sporting ethic, I think he drove down the escape road on purpose and the flailing of the steering wheel was just theatrics to sell the notion he had made a mistake instead of a cold, calculated cheat. He wanted the car to look out of control.

Maybe the most telling sign is that the team was so visibly upset with Nico. They can't exactly come out and say Nico punted Hamilton on purpose, but they also did not hide their displeasure. In the heat of the moment they were very definitely angry with Nico, and it was only hours after the fact that they were saying Hamilton misinterpreted Nico. It was only hours after the fact .... hours after everyone had calmed down, that Mercedes tried to smooth this over and make Nico look less at fault.

But again, let's leave emotion and conjecture out of it. Let's not try to say we know what Nico was thinking. I just want to know why he pointed the car at Hamilton's car unless that's exactly where he wanted it to go.