Lewis Hamilton reaction at controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi might have been angrier when he was younger, says David Coulthard

The Mercedes driver’s hopes of an all-time record eighth F1 title vanished due to the incorrect application of a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Safety Car rule from race director Michael Masi, allowing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to take advantage.
Hamilton resisted the ur🅠ge to complain too abrasively.
“The🅠 way Lewis handled it was fantastic,” ex-F1 driver Coulthard said. “Maybe when he was younger it would have been more difficult to do that.
“But he’s in his late-30s, he’s done ꧒a few laps. I think with age comes maturity.
“The benefit of youth is you don’t know, so🌺 you’re not scared of anything. As you get older, you start to understand the consequence☂s. But that maturity I think enables you to deal with different situations.
“I would have kicked off! I would still be complaining to th🌱e European Court of Appeal!”

Coulthard was asking if some of the prickliღer drivers from F1 history would have been as sportsmanlike as Hamilton: “It’s a great question. Because all of these different drivers, all of theಞse greats that have been multiple world champions, have had very different personalities.
“I would like to beli๊eve, though, in my romantic motorsports heart that there was enough competitive respect. Because even when you had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna at their worst or Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell, there was always a handshake.
“It’s like a boxer. They beat⭕ the hell out of each other and then they shake hands at the end, because there’s an underlyꦦing understanding of what it’s taken to get to that point.”
Hamilton’s opportunity at true revenge could🍸 come in 2023 if he is able to return to the championship picture and end Verstappen’s reign.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering every♕thing from American sports, to football♌, to F1.