And McLaren look like fools again, jumping ship from Honda and blaming the engine when it looks like a chassis problem they have
Just to keep you luddites interested, there IS a footy analogy here, the 'experts' in the media all followed the MacLaren spin that it was the Honda engine at fault and the car was fine. Wrong. just like those soothsaying pundits last night, the F1 press hadn't actually got a clue
Oh dear oh dear, from what was looking like a cert 1-2 it quickly turned into a double DNF, took a big man (who never pipes up on the radio) to come on without being prompted in front of a worldwide audience and say 'sorry Lewis for costing you the win, it was all my fault', top man IMO, you win as a team and you lose as a team
Hope he gets a bit of protection from Merc, it can't be easy literally having seconds to make a call to pit or carry on when a lot of the teams attention was still on Bottas retiring, heres how it went down over the radio
Vowles, 39, owned up to his error in front of the world as Mercedes attempted to settle Hamilton. *
"Lewis, this is James,'' he said on the radio. "We understand. It's my mistake.''
A seething Hamilton said: "I want to say something, but just leave me to it.'' Moments later, Hamilton was back on the radio again. "I don't get it,'' he yelled. "I am not going to be able to pass these guys. We have thrown away the win.''
Vowles responded: "I have thrown away the win. We trust in you, and believe in you. I'm sorry.''
"James is one of the best ever," Wolff said in defence of his chief strategist. "It needed guts to come out and speak in front of millions of people and say it was my mistake.
Would we ever see a ref come out and say this after a game, let alone during one for an error that cost the other team a win.....NEVER!
He did your right, I was jumping up and down shouting pit pit pit to watch him just sail past the sit entry, NOOOOO!!!
It seemed such an obvious call, but they expected another lap of VSC and wanted to know what everyone else was doing. Having said that, Hamilton would have had to retire whilst leading the race anyway.