Considering Lewis was already 3rd at that point, losing time on Vettel and Bottas AND had no new soft tires, he had to find something to blame for a p*** poor start and flawed race strategy.......
Both Hamilton's cry baby antics and statements along with those from Mercedes have backfired badly. Everyone agrees it was a racing incident and not intentional. You can argue Kimi should have gotten more time (personally, I don't) but to say Ferrari intentionally hit Hamilton is simply ridiculous -- and PETTY for a Champion.
Wolff really showed himself to be a first class, absolute scumbag by not only making the "incomptent or intentional" comment--a message he obviously wanted to convey--but simultaneously implicated Allison to deflect the criticism away from himself. I could imagine that the people working for him must be looking over their shoulders a lot.
Testing underway Silverstone with HaasF1Team (RGrosjean), Redbullracing (Sebastien Buemi), WilliamsRacing (Kubica.) Today they are testing slick tyre prototypes in preparation for 2019. Slightly cooler conditions than the race weekend. If you look carefully, you can see which tyres Robert Kubica (WilliamsRacing) is testing for next year. Actually not....all the prototypes don’t have colour markings. So they look a bit naked.. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
So true. Imho if hammy hit Kimi there wouldn’t have been a penalty. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/villeneuve-raikkonen-penalty-less-severe-if-he-hit-bottas-1058399/
MB is under pressure and they are wilting quickly. Ferrari upgrades more than matched anything MB has done thus far, including the massive Austrian GP upgrade package MB bought along that was supposed to take MB to another level. Throw in the special Pirellis and questionable penalties given Ferrari and MB is in trouble, and their actions manifest it. Kudos to Ferrari and their upgrades. They are doing it right-work hard and stfu. MB is doing enough moaning by itself. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/the-changes-that-put-ferrari-on-top-at-the-british-grand-prix-1058328/
Image Unavailable, Please Login FORMULA 1BRITISH GPMORE EVENTS PREV NEXT FORMULA 1 BRITISH GP BREAKING NEWS Villeneuve: Raikkonen penalty less severe if he hit Bottas Share on FacebookShare on Twitter Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Kimi Raikkonen would've faced a lesser penalty if he hit the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas instead of his teammate Lewis Hamilton in the British Grand Prix, according to Jacques Villeneuve. Raikkonen received a 10-second penalty at Silverstone after tapping Hamilton into a spin at the start, while Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel was given a five-second punishment for colliding with Bottas at the start of the French GP. Villeneuve believes Raikkonen’s penalty highlights the inconsistency of officials in Formula 1, and he thinks the Finn would have received a smaller penalty if he’d hit his countryman in the second Mercedes. “I don’t understand why it’s 10 seconds, and another time it’s five, sometimes it’s nothing,” Villeneuve told Motorsport.com. “That’s what’s wrong. It’s racing. I don’t like it when there are racing penalties, it should be for dirty driving, which is a different thing, or stupid driving. “They decided that it’s Lewis, we’re in the UK, he’s fighting for the championship, that’s worth 10 seconds. “If it had been Bottas, it would have been five seconds, that’s the thing.” Villeneuve also highlighted Raikkonen’s clash with Max Verstappen at the Austrian Grand Prix, where they made contact on the opening lap and the Red Bull got ahead but did not receive a penalty, as another recent example of inconsistency. Want motorsport news in your inbox? Sign up for our newsletters! “Sometimes you see things like Verstappen in Austria, when he touched Kimi,” he added. “Why wasn’t that a penalty? Just because Kimi didn’t go off? If Kimi had gone off, then it would have been a penalty? “That’s what’s wrong, it’s the action that matters, not what happens after the action, ultimately.” The 1997 world champion believes Hamilton’s off-set tyre strategy triggered by the collision helped him in the closing stages, when he had fresher tyres than teammate Bottas. “Without them crashing into each other he would have been running third the whole race, not having people moving out of the way to let him by, he would destroyed his tyres,” he said. “That ended up working out, because he was the later one to pit, so he was the one who at the end had tyres that were still OK compared to Bottas. “He finished second after a crappy start, so he should be happy with that, because he wasn’t going to win this race. Nothing to complain about."
One has to admit, he has a point there. It is certainly not a given that he would have finished first or second without Kimis contact, once again he got away very lenient!
This may be better fodder for another thread, but, looking back across the last few races, I can't but be impressed by Alonso's ability to take a bad car and consistently overachieve with it. He may be a horrid teammate and a prima donna, but the man is doing impressive things with a car that is only just better than Williams' positively evil car.
Seb attacking T2 at Silverstone with DRS open in the last 10 laps.....he's the only one out of the 4. https://imgur.com/a/WM4Jv3O
