I think all in all he was very restrained considering the situation, although probably not the best PR to not be at the team photo.
The team probably wanted him away from prying eyes in case he cracked and said something. He'd already upset the online apple cart by not having a big hissy fit live on cameras so they were probably trying to keep it that way. More likely is that he simply wanted to go home though!
What an embarrassing end for Mercedes, don't know what they were thinking. Just madness. The positive Hamilton can take from this race is that he destroyed Rosberg in the race today and pulling away from him at a rate of 0.5-1 second per lap. He'll bounce back in Canada. It's good to see Verstappen is okay after his major shunt, really clumsy move though. I really feel for Maldonado too, another race retirement. Luck is not on his side this season!
No kidding on that. Alonso's just looked like a racing incident. Ricciardo's was an out and out punt.
No I think he could have joined the celebrations...thank the team for giving him a winning car, for giving him first choice this year to go and take pole, then thank them for totally mucking up his race win and also destroying what should be his second race win in Monaco in succession. Do you realize last year it was Rosberg that cheated him of a pole and likely race win, but this year the team decided to do it all on their own....lol Hamilton thought that by going out first and getting pole without rosbergs cock up with running off track would bring him luck this time..somebody had other ideas..lol
Is Lauda the only one with commonsense in this Mercedes team? please log in to view this image Mercedes bosses queued up to apologise to stunned Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton on Sunday after an error that robbed him of victory at the showcase Monaco Grand Prix. Hamilton had led from pole position until he was called in for fresh tyres when the safety car was deployed with 14 laps remaining. They had calculated he would pit and retain the lead but instead cost Hamilton the race, halving his championship lead from 20 points to 10, while handing it to team mate Nico Rosberg instead. “It was a mistake by the team,” said the team’s non-executive chairman Niki Lauda, himself a three times world champion with plenty of experience of success and failure. “Lewis said he was not happy with the tyres and they over-reacted completely wrong and called him in. There was no need, no reason. It was simply a mistake,” added the Austrian. please log in to view this image “They over-reacted 10 laps before the end, in Monaco. Where you can’t pass anyway…we destroyed his race. I apologised already.” Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff said he too had immediately said sorry to Hamilton, who had not put a wheel wrong otherwise and was seemingly destined for a long-overdue second win in the principality. “What the hell happened there? That’s exactly the right question,” he said. “The simple answer is we got the maths wrong. The calculation wrong. We thought we had a gap which we didn’t have when the safety car came out.” Wolff refused to blame any one person, saying the team won and lost together, and denied flatly there had been any skulduggery to favour Rosberg in front of the German manufacturer’s watching senior management. “I went to see him now in the [media] scrum and… I apologised,” he said. “That’s probably the only thing you can do and he’s a great leader, a great driver and I am sure that he will understand that sometimes we make errors. And this was such a situation.” They got the Maths wrong...why was there any cause for calculations with a few laps to go on a track where you could hardly overtake Toto?
The next time Lewis or Rosberg make a major mistake then they better not chuck them under a bus unlike last time. Lewis did well not to lash out with the media as it would achieve nothing other than damage his wdc chances.
Mercedes F1 team apologises to Lewis Hamilton for Monaco GP error Well it's all pretty galling but what can you do hey. Analyse it, learn from it, then move on from it.
