2015 Formula 1 Season Paddock

The decision to bring Hamilton in was an error judging the gap he had , complicated by the fact that race control initially signalled for the virtual safety car before switching to the physical safety car , there is no GPS car track location indicators in Monaco and Hamilton had input in the decision

 

Verstappen's use of Vettel's blue flags to pass was brilliant , fuck he hit the wall hard

 

I can't understand how Ricciardo escaped a penalty for contacting Raikkonen in exactly the same place and fashion as Alonso did on Hulkenburg

 

"The pit stop was made on lap 66 under a safety car and dropped Hamilton from the lead to third place. Wolff said the decision was made in an attempt to pre-empt a similar strategy being used by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in third, but the team based the call on incorrect information that told them Hamilton would resume in the lead.

"What the hell happened there, that is exactly the right question," Wolff said. "The simple answer is we got the math wrong, the calculation wrong. We thought we had a gap which we didn't have when the safety car came out and Lewis was behind the safety car. The calculation was simply wrong and that's what happened."

The teams usually base such decisions on GPS data from the cars, but the tall buildings of Monte Carlo means the data is not available in Monaco. Added to the confusion caused by race control's decision to initially deploy a virtual safety car (a method for neutralising the race at a lower speed) before releasing the actual safety car, Wolff said the team got its decision wrong.

"In Monaco you have no GPS and that makes the whole exercise more difficult and this is why we got it wrong when it switched from virtual safety car into safety car.

"The final decision was made 50 metres before the pit entry."

http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/12943766/toto-wolff-admits-mercedes-got-math-wrong

 

He did bend the Armco behind the 3 layers of safety barrier , I was kinda surprised they restarted the race with the condition the barrier was in especially in that location

 

Hamilton takes some of the blame for the pit call ~

"Afterwards, a clearly upset Hamilton said he could not express his feeling at the outcome, though he seemed to be prepared to shoulder some of the responsibility for the error.

“I can’t really express the way I feel at the moment, so I won’t even attempt to,” he said. “You rely on the team. I saw a screen, it looked like the team was out and I thought that Nico had pitted. Obviously I couldn’t see the guys behind so I thought the guys behind were pitting. The team said to stay out, I said ‘these tyres are going to drop in temperature,’ and what I was assuming was that these guys would be on Options and I was on the harder tyre. So, they said to pit. Without thinking I came in with full confidence that the others had done the same.”

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2015/...gic-blunder-robs-hamilton-of-certain-victory/

 

If the team thought he would lose 1 or two places they wouldn't have called him in , that's where the gap error comes into it , they thought he would emerge in front

 

Hamilton ~ " It was a joint call "

http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/2...its-both-he-and-mercedes-made-the-call-to-pit

 

Ecclestone tells Rosberg he is " bad for business " of F1

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/may/24/bernie-ecclestone-nico-rosberg-f1

 

Verstappen to receive 5 grid place penalty in Canada for causing the collision with Grosjean

http://m.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/119153

 

Refuelling return meets heavy opposition , likely to be dropped

http://m.bbc.com/sport/formula1/32857685

 

Oh yea very intentional. Completely dejected man. 150 million makes it easier to take though.

 

Because rubbing is racing

 

I just wish there were more opportunities for overtaking at Monaco

 

It must have been a real tough walk home.

 

I thought he was gonna leave the car on the track and go get on his yatch like Raikkonen did

 

FTFY

I think Hamilton will come to the next race with pure fire in his veins. His team too.

I was extremely impressed with how he handled himself at the podium; he truly has matured as a professional and as a human being.

 

My only wish was that Ferrari would have passed Mercedes to win the race. Oh well, at least Button got McClaren Honda some points finally. If only Verstappen woudn't have pulled a Grosjean on Grosjean. I know Roman was upset but didn't he spend a season just wrecking people?

 

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