I can fully understand Horner being pissed off. Their star man was 33 (?) points ahead, with the possibility of stretching it to, at least, 40 points with a win. And his race is finished after half a lap, with his main rival going on to win and cut the gap to 8 points. Of course he's going to be ratty. But the stewards judged on it, and punished Hamilton for his role in the incident. He (Horner) should let it go now, it's done. What I will say is, if the roles were reversed, and Hamilton had ended up in the tyre wall, this place would have imploded!
There’s ratty and there’s whiny!
Hamilton called on the radio to ask about Max almost immediately, and MULTIPLE experts called it a “racing incident.”
While Lewis may have had half a car width left on the inside, it wasn’t like he could simply turn and point at that speed.
Max, on the other hand, had TWO car widths on the outside, but didn’t want to give up his preferred line, because he felt like IF I TURN IN, HE’S NOT ENTIRELY IN FRONT OF ME AND WILL HAVE TO BACK OFF!
In my book, and from watching the cockpit and steering wheel footage multiple times, Hamilton tries to avoid the collision without giving up position or braking hard into the turn, while Max turns in, stops, turns in again. It is that second turn in that catches the tires.
It looked like a racing incident to me, esp considering the drivers had petitioned to be allowed to race this season, and for once Max came off worse.
Hamilton asked how he was, he was told he was fine and taken to hospital out of an abundance of caution, then TWO HOURS LATER celebrated his historic win on his home track!
Horner looked and sounded a bit childish for me. And, his calling the Race Director to get him to have a word with the stewards should have been beneath him!
Max was Red Bull’s only serious hope for Constructor points in the race and he watched them go up in a cloud of gravel.
One things for certain, Hungary is going to be tasty, so let’s hope it stays safe, and cooler heads prevail after the summer recess.
One point I do want to reiterate that others have also stated: Max doesn’t get to be the upstart aggressor all the time, as he works his way up to displacing the current King. Every now and then, he has to realize not everyone is going to give him the wide berth just because he’s Max! Lewis fought for position, even though Max was all over the place ahead of him. Lewis got his nose inside the corner and fought for the position. Max wanted the line and tried to take it by turning in with LOADS of track to his left. Lewis held his nerve. Max lost out…this time.
Change the names around and “Welcome to the Silverstone Grand Prix, woman!”
All hail, Sir Lewis Hamilton, 8-time winner of the British Grand Prix!!!
