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Originally Posted by Steve PH
Ultimately LH let KR ahead (when it mattered), the fact that Kimi was slow and Hammy retook him immediately shouldn't really matter I would have thought?
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it does very much so
rules say you can't be on race pace after cutting corners, Hamilton was.
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Originally Posted by Steve PH
If this had happened the other way around and Kimi had been penalised for a similar incident I would be equally annoyed. As far as I'm concerned this miss use of the stewards powers will only be a bad thing for F1. Why risk going for an overtake, then sort yourself out, all within what you thought were the rules, only to be punished for it. Best just follow each other around and around in a dull procession.
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But you fail to recognise, that Hamilton did a dumb move in the first place, and he got away clean because there was no armco.
And it was a stupid location to over take Kimi, if he was indeed so much faster
All he had to do, was get in position, and he would have had a perfect opportunity for a clean over take at Kemmel, or at Malmedy/Les Combes
you can't over take where he tried to over take, not on the outside, not if you are at the same level, not even a nose lenght ahead... That's the mistake
he went off, and if you go off, you either loose your car, you loose speed and you loose car lengths...
He did not, because he cut the track, and continued at race pace
Stewards only applied the rules, designed to prevent such advantages...
again, mistake or rather 2 mistakes on Hamilton's behalf.