brucemillar
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The team management have not agreed it's a racing incident that is the verdict of the stewards. The team inquest will be was this preventable? If the answer to that is yes then the guilty party will be punished by whatever means the team sees fit.
Late last night Toto was quoted as saying it was "in their opinion" a racing incident, with both drivers having "something to learn from" and that they as a team would continue to allow their drivers to race with no orders.
Lauda was less than charitable about LH. Calling him "stupid" stating that this was on lap one when LH had already been passed.
“Stupid,” Lauda said. “It’s very simple for me. It was a miscalculation in Lewis’s head. I blame him more than Nico. For the team and for Mercedes it is unacceptable. Lewis was too aggressive to pass him and why should Nico give him room? He was in the lead. It is completely unnecessary and for me the disaster is that all Mercedes are out after two corners.”
I stand by my comment. (and I am neutral here) Rosberg was in front and has absolutely no commitment to anybody to allow them a free pass. Under the "one move" rule he is entitled, as he did, to defend his position. At that speed and in a series of corners LH should have been prepared for Rosberg to race him and NOT wave him through. LH was not alongside when he (LH) was on the track - again under the rules this gives him no right to expect NR to concede the line. NR stayed on his racing line - given it was lap one the Stewards could hardly argue that.
Basically LH left himself with nowhere to go but onto the grass. Had he waited and had he the speed advantage that he seemed to have? he could have passed Rosberg with no drama on the next straight.
Why was Rosberg in the wrong mode?
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