BRITISH GRAND PRIX - MIXED FORTUNES AS VERSTAPPEN CRASHED OUT AND HAMILTON PREVAILED! ! ! PART 3.

 

For Camp Red Bull, it was a case of 'we have been robbed.' It was a case of 'Max had been unfairly tripped and raced over by Lewis.' Horner found himself unable to contain himself and became nearly incandescent with self-righteous anger and indignation. 

Unable to exercise due caution or diplomacy; to give himself more thinking and reflection time. 

He found himself thinking with his tongue, which, to be fair, as did many others.  Both people in the Formula 1 industry and lay people who just like to watch and enjoy the races. 

People who have become addicted and some of whom have come to imagine themselves to be more knowledgeable about Formula 1 racing than they/we really are.

It was a rather tense and highly charged situation, with both Horner and Toto contacting the stewards to let them know how each of them were seeing the incident. 

Which was that their respective racer was right and the other was wrong. 

Which meant that both Hamilton and Verstappen had not done anything wrong, which, of course, meant that they had both been right in how they had each conducted themselves. 

Unfortunately for Hamilton, the Stewards did not see it the way he and Team Mercedes saw it. 

The result was that Hamilton got a 10 second penalty, which was not quite enough to pacify the still glowingly-hot Horner. 

Peanuts, Team Red Bull might have been thinking, and, when Hamilton went on to win the race despite his penalty, well, TRB might have thought, that just goes to show what we have been thinking, that the penalty 'was a joke.' 

Of course, irrespective of the level of culpability of either racer, and after the race, Hamilton, though not concealing his anger towards what he sees as Verstappen's aggressive tendency during racing.  

Did make the point that, nobody has all the responsibility for incidents like these. 

That being said, he clearly attributed most of the responsibility for this one to Max. 

But we can understand Christian Horner's and TRB's disappointment, while questioning how they have gone about expressing it.  

When we consider that Silverstone has been a massive blow for them, with it costing them a car, upto 25 points, and probably a very badly shaken Max.

To be continued!