The crash at Turn 11 at Silverstone’s Copse generated a wave of criticism and defences towards Lewis Hamilton. The seven-time world champion staged a dangerous manoeuvre at 300 km/h that produced the mistake and hard accident of Max Verstappen, his main rival in the championship, followed by a very slight sanction to the British. The race continued, the 10 seconds of penalty to the Mercedes driver were recovered and finally he stayed with the race in his homeland, fueling the fire with a celebration that seemed excessive and with the Dutchman in hospital before the precautions of the crash. With crosses of emails and images, the fight in the week continues… just like the championship. Hungary is the next round in Formula 1 and the only thing that is clear at the moment is that the relationship between Hamilton and Verstappen takes a lot of temperature and something has broken between them. The Red Bull and Mercedes teams do the same to throw water at their mill and put the FIA in trouble.
In the last few hours, from the Austrian team that is still leading in the drivers’ and constructors’ table, he revealed the damage caused by the accident and released the first numbers that could be charged to his German counterpart, in the event that a resounding ruling on the accident is made.” Unfortunately Verstappen will not get back in that car because it is a total loss,” said Helmut Marko, red bull’s structural adviser. and added an estimated value of the damages ensuring that “as things stand, about three-quarters of a million euros (750,000 euros)”.” In times of budget cap this amount is very significant and hurts us.” Most importantly, however, his challenger is “fine” and recovered, so Max Verstappen is preparing for two intense weeks. “He will get back on the RB16B in Hungary, he is also very motivated,” they warn.
Meanwhile, in Mercedes they do not remain silent and once again the defense of the action of Lewis Hamilton was given, the curve to the right generates doubts about the position and the decision not to loosen the Briton, but they understand inside that his movement was the right one giving the point of view of the lines crossed of route. James Allison, the German team’s former head coach, made reference to the incident and banned his former employers. “Lewis’ maneuver is absolutely in line with the FIA’s overtaking guidance.”
“If you’re inside during an overtaking, this guide says you must be substantially in parallel with the other car, and Lewis was, his horn beyond half of Verstappen’s car,” he remarks and passes on what happened on Saturday about the same dispute.” If you look at the Sprint Race and look at the first lap of the main race, Lewis had to back off constantly to avoid a collision,” Allison closed in her statements that light the fire and open another focus of conflict in the run-up to the drivers’ visit to the Hungaroring.
