British driver Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes won the Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix, ahead of Dutchman Max Verstappen of Red Bull and Finn Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari in a thrilling finish here on Sunday.
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“We saw a race where someone did an outstanding job and then what happened in the last lap was a couple of circumstances – it is racing”.
Horner’s own Red Bull team had similar incidents when Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were fighting for championship.
Team orders would see Mercedes instruct Hamilton and Rosberg how to race.
“The great thing is that Toto and (non-executive chairman) Niki (Lauda) have been great these past three years in allowing us to race”.
And he said the incident would have no bearing on his negotiations with Rosberg over a new contract.
Sunday’s collision was their third in five races and came only four races on from their crash in Spain, where both men were forced into retirement on the opening lap.
The race stewards, who had the same question about putting two hands on a grippy object and rotating it to the right, gave Rosberg a ten-second time penalty for failing to leave his teammate racing room, per Sky Sports.
He does however keep his fourth place finish but has seen his championship lead over the reigning world champion cut to 11 points.
Canada Heading into turn one, Hamilton and Rosberg were side by side.
I can’t help but feel that while Hamilton wants to be like Senna, but instead the manner of his success has made him more like the new Schumacher.
“It is not something I go out to get involved in”, he said.
It is just the latest bad blood between the warring duo, and left Mercedes team bosses fuming, while some in the crowd booed Hamilton in the bitter aftermath.
Asked whether he felt Rosberg deliberately drove into Hamilton, Wolff replied: “No, I don’t think it’s that black and white”.
“I’m gutted. That’s sport sometimes, but unbelievable”, Rosberg said.
He had made clear to reporters, before the officials’ decision, that he considered Hamilton to blame.
The pair clashed once again this season, with Rosberg punished by the stewards for “causing a collision” on the final lap of the Austrian Grand Prix. I didn’t expect Lewis to turn in.
Now Mercedes racing chief Toto Wlff has had enough saying: “In Barcelona I was much easier about it because we had 29 races without any collision”.
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“Apparently he said in a TV interview that I was in his blind spot so maybe that is why he turned in”.
