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 stricken in the gravel, and his teammate at the back of the grid in a nightmare start for 🦹Mercedes.
After the race, Hamilton took full responsibility for the collision and apologised to Russell,꧂ who staged an impressive recovery drive to fourth. ♏;
"George thought the race was ove🗹r, but actually [it] tꦕurns out [it wasn’t]," the 2016 world champion told Sky.
"This is going to be interestin🀅g to analyse obviously, Lewis has the soft tyres so he just tries to go round the outsidꩲe but it’s three people going into turn one.
"It was 100% Lewis’ error t♚here, it’s a slight misjudgment, it’s not a big misj𝐆udgment, [he] doesn’t leave quite enough space for George there, so it’s all on Lewis.
“He already admittꦆed 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, who both s🐟tarted ღon mediums, as they ran three-wide into Turn 1.
Asked if it was a risk by Mercedes to put their drivers on different compounds, Rosberg 𓆏replied: “Possibly yes, because you p🦩ut 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 and going so much 𒊎faster. He had a real chance to be P1 after Turnཧ 1.”
And Rosberg reckons 🌌that factor will give Hamilton a small case to take to Mercedes when they review the incide🔥nt internally.
“He was comin✃g from the outside so had a much wider radius. Verstappen was coming in tight. So by the time they collide🀅d, Lewis was already level with Verstappen,” Rosberg added.
“That’s a small argu𝓰ment 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 that opportunity, with my sof🔜ts, to go for it’.”
Rosberg also praised Hamilton’s “sಞkill” after suffering what was only his sixth first-lap retirement across his 17-year F1 career.
“Can you believe it? The skill! In his whole career he’s only gone out six times on Lap 1,” he sa🍎id.
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