Lewis Hamilton vs Ferrari

Well finally McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton has responded to Ferrari’s weekend statement regarding the safety car incident which they claim cost them a podium position and the unfair treatment by FIA at the European Grand Prix.

Hamilton was quoted, “I don’t remember too much about it, to be honest. When I came down the straight, I was accelerating; I didn’t see the safety car coming out and then as I came round Turn One, literally as I got to the safety car line all of a sudden I saw the safety car coming out and pretty much alongside me, so I backed off and went across the line as it did that.

I was able to push until safety car line two, I think between the two lines you can go fast and at that point I thought I had passed the safety car. He was already behind, so I continued. I haven’t watched the race, but as far as I was concerned, I had passed the safety car line one so I thought I was okay at least that’s how I saw it.

Whenever a safety car comes out, it’s difficult to compute all the information. There are all these beeps in your ear, and lights flashing on your dashboard too, so it’s all a bit complicated.

When the team told me I had a drive-through penalty, I made time by pushing as hard as I could, and was able to increase the gap a bit to the guys behind I think my general pace was quite a bit better than a lot of the people behind me.

We were competitive from the beginning. I took my penalty it’s quite a long time to spend at 60km/h in the pit-lane and I came out second. I don’t see how that’s unfair it’s racing, those are the rules and we all have to accept them.“