Nico Rosberg cruised to victory in the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday as his title rival, Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton, dodged crashes to finish second. A red-faced Kvyat later revealed he called Vettel, who made a hasty exit from the Sochi Autodrom following his first-lap retirement, to apologise.
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“The last (reprimand) was bloody ridiculous”.
Hamilton doesn’t believe his problems are intentional or down to a recent team reshuffle which saw his mechanics move to Rosberg’s auto, whilst the German’s switched to Hamilton’s side at the beginning of the year.
“When I was in karting there was one steward, he was just there to make everyone’s weekend a bad weekend”.
“I’m starting to have reminiscent experiences of recent… families would turn up, spend so much money to be there on a weekend”.
“I started to see signs of him!”
As Rosberg sped away, Raikkonen seized second place with Hamilton fifth as the safety vehicle was deployed to allow debris to be cleared. He put in a gutsy recovery drive and got into second place but, having clawed the gap back to 7.5 seconds to Rosberg, he had to back off with a water pressure problem and settle for second.
“There is no reason we can’t win its just that we have these bugs coming along.”Wolff said after the race that Rosberg had experienced a technical problem as well, which he described as “a odd signal from the power unit”.
Two weeks previously in China, exactly the same engine failure left him at the back of the grid, and he finished seventh in a auto damaged in a collision at the first corner. We’re in this together. “We’re in this together so they’re feeling the hurt and emotions you go through because we’re connected in that way and it’s a attractive thing”. “I enjoyed it out there, and enjoyed going flat out to the end”. We just don’t have the speed.
“The details were that the plane landed and within ninety seconds the box was in the vehicle and on the way to the track so I don’t want to know how he sorted that”.
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Hamilton has not won a race since he clinched his third drivers’ title in Austin a year ago and is already 43 points behind Rosberg in the drivers’ standings this season. I am very happy about it, it has been great four races, very enjoyable and I am aware it will not continue like that forever for sure.
