Now it looks like Michael had been blocking Lewis Hamilton when being lapped to allow Sebastian past, wouldn't be surprised if people who only just know about it will act like they knew it happened in the race. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/motor...redicts-red-bull-bloody-nose-115875-23156171/ I don't really like two of my favorite drivers coming to blows but, in this case, Hamilton should grow a third leg and straighten up.
I do not understand this (if it is true) because I do remember Vettel and Hamilton lapping Schumacher by the chicane in sector three and Schumacher moved aside for both of them, so can't see how he was meant to block anyone.
I don't reckon Hamilton would say what he said, unless he has not got any respect for a 42yr old 7 time world champion, but who knows? He might have blocked him.
Well lets see what happens in Monaco and if there is any awkwardness. Schumacher would beat the crap out of him like a father slapping his son for being rude.
I know Schumacher blocked Hamilton in Q1. If he didn't pass three blue flags during the race without letting Hamilton through then he didn't block him.
Good article Manny. Oddly enough, I saw the subtlety of what Schumacher did at the time but to mention it would have suggested I was taking sides against my old buddy, so I've not mentioned it anywhere. I am not a partisan supporter of any driver but I do not like underhand tactics or injustice of any kind. In my opinion Hamilton got a raw deal throughout the whole race, including a typically stodgy McLaren strategy (together with poor pits stops) which may have left him feeling he was battling against the whole world; and finding one driver being less helpful than others will not have allayed such thoughts. In my view this was not the clumsiness of a slow thinking old man; no, what Schumacher did was quite deliberate - he doesn't do things by accident except perhaps breaking his legs…
Yea Hamilton was slightly compromised and it was no doubt deliberate on Schumachers part, but the eventual outcome of the race was not affected, Hamiltons main issues appeared to be with the cars top speed, ie gearing.
Bollox!!! even Narain was more of a setback for Lewis towards the end at turn 5 ? So what about Button being used as a scapegoat to slow down vettel like at every grand prix? Seems a bit fishy when vettel pits jenson is always infront of him "waiting to pit". Lewis can rightly **** off if you ask me...
Him moaning ("like he never does") just for the sake of moaning. Proof more people other than Alonso does it. He had plenty more overtaking chances
Schumacher says he didn't block him: http://www.planetf1.com/news/3213/6951600/Schu-Denies-Blocking-Hamilton-In-Spain I try my hardest to like Lewis being a Brit myself, but every time he opens his mouth and talks nothing but ****e. In the end it brings me back to hating him all over again. Here he was a few weeks ago saying when he gets "beat" he accepts it and gets on with his driving, really he's doesn't and just acts like a boil that nobody wants around.
Being young when he started and equalled my driver I havent liked him from the start even with being british, but I did start to like him better but his fans do him favours in that respect at all.
Hamilton and Button were quite slow in sector 1, possibly cost them the race - ie around Turn 3. Red Bulls are awesome there.
If Schumacher feels the need to deny this accusation then I suppose Hamilton must have said it. I'd like to know at which point in the race Schumacher's supposed to have held him up because I didn't see it. Just before their last stops Vettel and Hamilton lapped Rosberg (who did hold Hamilton up slightly) but didn't catch Schumacher before pitting. When they caught the Mercedes cars again a bit later on Schumacher jumped right out of the way and let both leaders straight through. It's not possible that Hamilton got the Mercedes drivers mixed up is it?
Has anyone found some footage of Hamilton being blocked or did it not actually happen. When Hamilton lapped Schumacher he seemed to be well out of the way.
Well what can you do, if he was going to blame his inability to overtake Vettel it was going to be on Schumacher who has taken enough **** on hid "dirty tactics" for 1 and 1/2 years. Hamilton needs his head sorting out, he would look much better if he actually admitted he was slow, him and Rosberg.
I don't know what to think about this. In the race, I expected Schumi to block Lewis a bit after Vettel went through but saw nothing obvious. Cosi says it was subtle and it must have been. Not sure about the Mirror article. I checked it out and it's just two lines at the end of a piece about Lewis and the next race. It says: 'Hamilton is fuming that Schumacher blocked him to help his pal Vettel in Spain. But he said: "I won't speak to him about it - I didn't want to waste my time or my breath."' That doesn't even make sense! And I'd be surprised if Lewis said something so childish. Beware believing the tabloids, I'd say.
