Schumacher was well clear of the yellow zone when he passed them. His move in La Source and on the exit was to avoid Algersuari and before they got to Eau Rouge the light was green. It appears they had the yellow lights on for that section and not going into Eau Rouge and up the straight. There are lights in zones and he didn't do any illegal overtaking.n_anirudh wrote:Is it just me or are the warning lights/race light--caution alternatively flashing yellow and green??? I paused the video several times and I see yellow and green being given simultaneously.Gaara wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS7ZFvOW ... r_embedded[/youtube]
Schumacher overtook a HRT car at the start under yellow flags with no penalty? heh?
If you hit someone after you aren't all the way past, it's your fault. No different than doing the same when you don't control the line of the guy you are overtaking on the inside. Yes Kamui could have braked sooner but Lewis hit him, not the other way around. Kamui made no move toward or away from Lewis, Lewis drove across the front of his car and there was contact. Kamui maintained his line and didn't deviate until he was hit. Not deviating from your course and trying to regain your spot aren't the same thing. I don't see what all the fuss is about. It was a racing incident.Poleman wrote:Well its all media bullcrap,even the apology from Hamilton...He just wants to play nice(Stewards are already after him).Kobayashi on the other hand,what a liar!He said that he wasnt going to challenge to retake the place instead he pulls right from Hamilton to enter the slipstream,he gets blocked and then moves on the outside with ridiculusly late braking.The thing that he actually tried to retake the place is what triggered the whole sequence and reaction from Hamilton's side.
Lewis on the other hand should have given a glance to his left mirror,but given the point and the speed it would mean that he would miss the entry completely.
A nice in-car from the incident by Hamilton's Mclaren:
I also think he was more caring for the flying bits of carbon fibre rather while being close with the HRT.Ray wrote:Schumacher was well clear of the yellow zone when he passed them. His move in La Source and on the exit was to avoid Algersuari and before they got to Eau Rouge the light was green. It appears they had the yellow lights on for that section and not going into Eau Rouge and up the straight. There are lights in zones and he didn't do any illegal overtaking.
So, basically you 're saying that they are both liars but Lewis is a "good" liar and Kamui a "bad" liar?!Poleman wrote:Well its all media bullcrap,even the apology from Hamilton...He just wants to play nice(Stewards are already after him).Kobayashi on the other hand,what a liar!
So you expected Kamui to simply teleport of ithe track? He was already as far left as was possible, Lewis made one of his usual ego inspired mistakes by assuming Kamui would bow down to him and then bugger off someplace else which he didn't as he too is a racing driver and other racing drivers aren't paid to roll over and play dead whenever his holiness Lewis Hamilton drives up to them!richard_leeds wrote:Why does there have to be someone at fault for every incident?
Both drivers could have avoided it by giving the other a little more room, but neither did. It was a racing accident, move on.
So he's obliged to lift because he some how knew Hamilton was going to cut across him?marcush. wrote:kamui had a destinctive advantage of actually seeing what was going to happen potentially when Hamilton already had to focus on his breaking point-it is really incredibly hard to judge the drop zone for the brakes towards lescombes and yo u see even the best not making the corner clean when they have to lok into the mirror before turning in.
Kamui knew Hamilton could not see him and he knew that you want to go a bit further out before turning in...All that was needed was a little lift...
But Kobayashi as spectacular his wheel to wheel driving is he seems to be occupied with his own affairs not really caring about the other guy.Webber in a ways has shown similar attitude in the last years but hey this sunday he raced very well.
I don't think (I hope at least) that no one is asserting that he was obliged to... However, it would have been sensible to do so, he said this himself, that he ended up in a place he didn't really want to be. Hamilton cutting across – no he wasn't meant to predict that in any way, Hamilton took himself out there. That said, Kamui was in a pretty silly place.Gerhard Berger wrote:So he's obliged to lift because he some how knew Hamilton was going to cut across him?
Bob, he's a race car driver, Peter sauber doesn't pay him to roll over and play dead when Lewis, mark, Jensen, alonso or button steam up along side of him! [...]beelsebob wrote:I don't think (I hope at least) that no one is asserting that he was obliged to... However, it would have been sensible to do so, he said this himself, that he ended up in a place he didn't really want to be. Hamilton cutting across – no he wasn't meant to predict that in any way, Hamilton took himself out there. That said, Kamui was in a pretty silly place.Gerhard Berger wrote:So he's obliged to lift because he some how knew Hamilton was going to cut across him?