The ‘small argument’ Nico Rosberg thinks Lewis Hamilton can make about George Russell F1 crash
Hamilton and Russell dramatically came to blows in a first corner collision that left the seven-time world champion strickeওn in the gravel, and his teammate at th꧒e back of the grid in a nightmare start for Mercedes.
After the race, Hamilton took full responsibility for the collision and apologise🃏d to Russell, who staged an impressive recovery drive to fourth.
"George thou🔯ght💝 the race was over, but actually [it] turns out [it wasn’t]," the 2016 world champion told Sky.
"Thisౠ is going to be interesting to analyse obviously, Lewis has the soft tyres so he just tries to go round the out✨side but it’s three people going into turn one.
"It was 100% Lewis’ error there, it’s a slight misjudgment, it’s not a big mis🌊judgment, [he] doesn’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5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, who both started on mediums, as they ran three-wide into🌳 Turn 1.
Asked if it was a risk by Mercedes to put their drivers on differ🎉ent compounds, Rosberg replied: “P🦹ossibly 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 an✃d going so much faster. He had﷽ a real chance to be P1 after Turn 1.”
And Rosberg reckons that factor will give Hamilton a smallജ case to take to Mercedes when they reviewꦐ the incident internally.
“He was coming from the outside so had a much wider r🤪adius. Verstappen 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 internal discussion, and say: perhaps we should have been smarter and we should have asked George to stay behind Verstappen and give me ꦛthat opportunity, with my softs, to go for it’.”
Rosberg also praised Hamilton’s “skill” after suffering what was only his sixth firs💛t-lap retirement across 💯his 17-year F1 career.
“Can you believe it? The s🌳kill! In his whole career he’s only gone out six times on Lap 1,” he said.
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