One of the big talking points of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has got to be the incident between Vettel and Hamilton. It was a slightly unusual situation. Vettel going into the back of Hamilton was just one of those things. But afterwards, when Vettel side-swiped Hamilton, that was just unnecessary. I think they WERE RIGHT IN PENALISING SEB at that moment.
What an utterly crazy race that was in Baku!It started off pretty sedately, really. I thought this was going to be a bit of a snooze-fest, and then we had the safety car and it all went completely nuts. I’m not quite sure where to begin! There was a talking point for pretty much every single team on the grid.
I thought Lewis Hamilton did a brilliant job in qualifying because, as the weekend was going along in free practice, he looked like he was on the back-foot. Then, when we came to qualifying, he dug it out.
ONE OF HAMILTON’S strengths has always been braking and corner entry, and I think that when the track has low grip and when he doesn’t have that ultimate peak grip, he’s not able to extract the best performance he wants from the combination of the tyres and the track surface. Therefore, it doesn’t quite happen for him.
THAT’S VERY SYMPTOMATIC of a low-grip surface; we saw it in Monaco, we saw it in Sochi and we saw it in free practice here. In qualifying the track cleared up a lot more — there was more rubber down, the temperature dropped, there was more grip, and Hamilton was able to use that incredible feel he has under braking and corner entry. His feeling is just so, so good at the point of the lock-up, where he is able to modulate the brakes. That’s been one of his big strengths, and I think he did that brilliantly in qualifying.
In the race,what can you say? I think he was going to be the winner, but then that headrest came loose. It sounds like it was just a one-off — it wasn’t put in place properly, probably under the red flag when he got out of the car and that cost him the win.
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