The Walloon government has given green light to the organiser of Spa Grand Prix to seal a contract extension with Bernie Ecclestone, ready to cover financial losses that may occur.
+1NTS wrote:In karting we have a few guys in our team that tend to drive "elbows out", which is a style you choose. HAM does the same thing, he chooses to turn left there instead of leaving half a meter of extra space at the apex of the next corner. He has the right to do so, and it gets him an advantage if it works (which is 9 our of 10 times), but it ends in tears 1 out of 10 times.
I'm not quoting anybody there, just telling you what I saw. Nico turned hard left away from Hamilton and then hard right into him, almost full lock in both cases.NTS wrote:You're mis-quoting and exaggerating. He did not say "I ran deliberately into Lewis", according to Hamilton, Rosberg said he didn't avoid the accident to prove a point. Which is totally different from trying to "increase the force" when running into somebody.Raleigh wrote:Nico hacked the wheel left, away from Hamilton, then turned hard back into him to increase the force of the impact.
I think (but I'm just guessing) that Rosberg was having the last laps of the Hungarian GP in mind. Hamilton didn't let him through (which in my opinion was correct, why let someone through who is so far behind). But that caused him to stop a few laps late (which explain the "Rosberg was angry at team bosses" quote), which meant Rosberg caught Hamilton at the very end of the race. Then he failed to overtake due to a very elbows-out move of Hamilton, who basically pushed him onto the grass on exit (which is allowed, but it was a bit on the edge)SectorOne wrote:It´s a very strange reaction from Rosberg to even begin to think like that.
He´s been in Hamilton´s position in Canada at the start and did not budge one bit and yet now he feels Hamilton should move aside when the roles are reversed.
I think you're spot on there. You'd think Nico would've learned from Bahrain that Lewis will never let him round the outside of him.NTS wrote:I think (but I'm just guessing) that Rosberg was having the last laps of the Hungarian GP in mind. Hamilton didn't let him through (which in my opinion was correct, why let someone through who is so far behind). But that caused him to stop a few laps late (which explain the "Rosberg was angry at team bosses" quote), which meant Rosberg caught Hamilton at the very end of the race. Then he failed to overtake due to a very elbows-out move of Hamilton, who basically pushed him onto the grass on exit (which is allowed, but it was a bit on the edge)SectorOne wrote:It´s a very strange reaction from Rosberg to even begin to think like that.
He´s been in Hamilton´s position in Canada at the start and did not budge one bit and yet now he feels Hamilton should move aside when the roles are reversed.
With that moment, where he avoided an accident and lost his single chance of overtaking, in mind I can imagine he decided not to avoid any more accidents for the rest of the season. Stupid choice for an F1 driver, because he has a lot of points to loose in accidents as well. But I can understand the emotion if he feels like he lost to Hamilton due to Hamilton's ruthless driving style.
