The ‘small argument’ Nico Rosberg thinks Lewis Hamilton can make about George Russell F1 crash
Hamilton and Russell dramatically came to blows in a f༺irst corner collision that left the seven-ti🐠me world champion stricken in the gravel, and his teammate at the back of the grid in a nightmare start for Mercedes.
After the race, Hamilton took full responsibility for the collision and a🍰pologised to Russell, who staged an impress🔯ive recovery drive to fourth.
"George thought the race was over, but actually [it] turns out [it wasn’t]," the 2016 world🌄 champion told Sky.
"This is going to be interesting to analyse obviously,🥂 Lewis has the soft tyres so he just tries to go round the outside but it’s three p﷽eople going into turn one.
"It was 100% Lewis’ error there, it’s a slight misjudgment, it’s not a big misjudgment, [he] doesn𒈔’t leave quite enough space for George there, so it’s all on Lewis.
“He already admitted to [it] and kind of took responsibility for it.෴”
Hamilton used his faster, grippier soft tyres to make the best start out of the top three and draw alongside Russell and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, who both started on mediums, as they ra🍬n three-wide into Turn 1.
Asked if🦩 it was a risk by Mercedes to put their drivers on differentᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ compounds, Rosberg replied: “Possibly yes, because you put the guy behind who’s on the softer compound.
“Lewis would have gone P1, I think, around the outside. He was already level with Verstappen and going so much faster. He had a re🍷al chance to be P1 after Turn 1.”
And Rosberg reckons that factor will give Hamilton a small case to take to 🐷Mercedes when they review the incident internally.
“He was coming from the outside so had a much wider radius. ൲Verstappen was coming in tight. So by the time they collided, Lewis was already level with Verstappen,” Rosberg added.
“That’s a small argument that he will be able to bring to the team in an inter♋nal discussion, and say: perhaps we should have been smarter and we should have asked George to stay behind Verstappen and give me that opportunity, with my softs, to go for it’.”
Rosberg also praised Hamilt🥂on’s “skill” after suffering what was only his sixth first-lap retirement across his 17-year🐷 F1 career.
“Can you believe✅ it? The skill! ꩵIn his whole career he’s only gone out six times on Lap 1,” he said.
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