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[Rassegna stampa] – Lewis Hamilton will re-read the Formula 1 sports regulations to avoid losing more races due to avoidable errors. This is the essence of the Sochi weekend, in which he had to give up the first position of the race to meet a very ‘strong’ penalty in a rule that evidently escaped the control of Mercedes. The Briton begins to harbor a certain intolerance towards the stewards, in addition to the remote support also of his rival Max Verstappen – even considering that the Dutchman took advantage of the stop & go of number 44 yesterday. The Formula 1 bureaucracy is on the bench of the accused, according to the duo.
“How to get two tickets in a few seconds, pinched by the LTZ cameras or a traffic light. Three weeks after the forbidden pit stop at Monza, Hamilton opts for the most absurd way of throwing another victory and postponing the appointment with Schumacher at 91. This time he slips in the pre-GP start tests, which the drivers do Just outside the pit lane: The six-time world champion sits too much, according to the stewards, although the regulations do not exactly set the limits of the law. The result is a 10 ″ penalty (5 ″ plus 5 ″, objectively excessive) and an afternoon to search for ghosts: “They are trying to stop me, no one has ever been penalized for something so ridiculous. I have done it many times and they have not told me anything. […] Schumi’s record will last at least another two weeks, perhaps longer if Hamilton continues to live by the edge of the rules and provocation: on the track – there are already 5 penalties in 2020 – whatever it was, where he was banned from taking his battles to the podium. of civilization. Responsibility is once again shared with the team, from which via radio he gave the go-ahead to attempt the exits in a less “rubberized” area, more similar to the real exit, a detail that saved him at least two points in his license. . “I will reread the regulation carefully,” Lewis promises, “studying the areas where the stewards might find excuses to get in my way. I will not give it to you.“
Jacopo D’Orsi, The impression
“It must have been lightheaded, during the last mile to climb to the top of Michael Schumacher’s victories. Lewis Hamilton got bogged down giving the victory to Valtteri Bottas. Unfortunately for the Finn, the Russian race could soon move to St. Petersburg. I’m not sorry, given the poor show in Olympic Park: encouraged only by Lewis’ angry radio crews against those who “want to stop him, but will never make it.” Lewis yesterday was angry about the sports measures: “When you are in front, and I do not mean my specific case, the controls are tripled, the rules change. They do it to try to make the races more fun. ” The greatest ingenuity was made by Mercedes who did not tell him to get out of that position, but anyway it is a story with some shadows. The stewards took more than 20 minutes to notify the punishment despite having the images available. Then, at the end of the race, they re-examined the case by transforming the two initially reduced points in the super license (with two other infractions in a month, Hamilton would have missed a GP) into a fine. Well it would be too much“.
Daniele disappear, Corriere della Sera
“After the finale, Lewis’ controversial phrases to the FIA judges held the ground. Who says I couldn’t do the initial tests there? – He had ventured on the radio with his engineer Pete Bonnington. They can never bring me down. In particular, Hamilton pointed to the document that the stewards had drawn up after the meeting with the pilots. “It was just saying we had to attempt the exits on the right side of the pit lane after the traffic light, not how many meters ahead we had to position ourselves,” Lewis explained. I didn’t want to accelerate on gravel, because it wouldn’t have been representative of what I would have found on the grid starting on clean tarmac. I spoke to the team about it and they said everything was fine. That of the commissioners was an interesting decision… ». Even his rival Verstappen defended him: ‘Lewis is right. He had already received a heavy penalty, the points that took away his license made no sense. I promised myself to stay away from the grand prize commissioners, I just want to meet them at the hotel or at the bar.“
Luigi perna, La Gazzetta dello Sport
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