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| Alonso & Hamilton differ on incident; Surprisingly! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 4 2007, 06:58 PM (95 Views) | |
| Paul_Murtagh | Aug 4 2007, 06:58 PM Post #1 |
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Autosport.com - Alonso, Hamilton differ on incident The atmosphere at the McLaren motorhome was slightly more tense than usual today, when Fernando Alonso found himself repeatedly answering the same questions about his part in the pitstop hold-up that cost teammate Lewis Hamilton a final flying lap. And the tension certainly wasn't eased when Hamilton himself joined the media briefing to give his interpretation of the events. Following up Ron Dennis's explanation of how the pitstop hold-up happened as a result of Hamilton ignoring earlier team orders, which in turn put the drivers out of sequence, Alonso was grilled on the reasons why he was stationary for ten seconds while Hamilton was waiting behind. So the blame game continues at McLaren. Will we ever find out exactly who was responsible? Here's a quote from each of the drivers: Alonso: "I was completely out of schedule. I should have been in front of the group, in front of everybody, trying to do the lap, and I think it was very difficult to manage where I was and for how long they needed to stop me in the stop, because I was not in the perfect place to position myself with the traffic." Hamilton: "I was at the end of the pitlane; there was me, Fernando and Kimi. Just with the situation, I didn't want to disrupt the opportunity that I had. I didn't want to mess up my opportunity by changing places or whatever there was to do, and be open to being overtaken by Kimi and losing my place. So then it would have not allowed me to get an extra lap. So that's why we had the disagreement, because I didn't agree with it and I didn't do what they wanted me to do." |
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| Alien_SAP_Fiend | Aug 4 2007, 07:27 PM Post #2 |
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Hamilton has a lot to learn. |
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