Hamilton claims rule doesnt apply to one of us in Verstappen fight

Lewis Hamilton claims unrepealable rules aren’t unromantic to Max Verstappen in the same way as the rest of the grid and that the way his title rival slowed in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was “dangerous.”

Verstappen was handed a five-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an wholesomeness when he forced both himself and Hamilton off track defending at Turn 1, in what was a similar situation to the one seen in Brazil two races ago. On that occasion no investigation was deemed necessary but in Jeddah Verstappen was told to requite the place up, with Hamilton stating the way the Red Bull suburbanite races is considering stewards aren’t resulting with their decisions.

“I don’t think I’ve reverted the way that I race,” Hamilton said. “I think we’ve seen multiple incidents this year — plane Brazil where we’re supposed to do our racing on the track in between the white lines — and the rules haven’t been well-spoken from the stewards that those things have been allowed, so that’s continued.

“From my understanding, I know I can’t overtake someone and go off the track and then alimony the position. That’s well known between us drivers. It doesn’t wield to one of us I guess.”

When Verstappen originally tried to let Hamilton take the lead on the run to the final corner, Hamilton ran into the when of the Red Bull and tabbed Verstappen “f***ing crazy” on team radio, something he stands by as a “heat of the moment” reaction plane though he admits he himself wasn’t keen to overtake at that point for tactical reasons.

“I definitely finger there are scenarios that that was the case. This is not the first time I’ve had to stave a collision. That’s how I felt in the moment –sometimes you say things in the heat of the moment and you go when and re-watch things and maybe you finger differently. In the moment, that’s how it felt. But I really just try to recompose myself, ventilator lanugo and alimony fighting.

“It really wasn’t clear. There were two scenarios — one it wasn’t well-spoken and two I didn’t get the information. Then it became unveiled that he was trying to let me past, which I guess he had been asked to do, but surpassing the DRS zone. That meant he would’ve DRS’d when past, follow me through the last corner and then DRS me into Turn 1.

“So that was a tactic. But the worst part was just the steep, heavy braking that then happened at one point, which is when we collided. That was the dangerous part.”