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[onelapdown]

A few quotes from the interested parties:

Lewis Hamilton

I have no idea. I was behind him I went to move to the right and he went to move to the right as well and I ended up on the back somehow. It's racing.

Fernando Alonso

On lap one, he touched me in Turn Four in the rear diffuser. And then on lap two he jumped over me on the straight. I don't know what happened. I was flat out...the McLaren is quite quick on the straights.
I think we were running too close and for sure maybe he didn't realise how close we were. He jumped into my rear wing. I am sure on the first couple of laps, if you are eighth or ninth, you try to recover places too quickly.
Pat Symonds told me now that rumour, and he has printed now the data to show everybody. It is totally rubbish, but what can I do?

Pat Symonds

Fernando was coming out of the turn and accelerating down the straight. He reached fifth gear, at 227km/h, on full throttle, no touching of the brakes or anything like that. And you can see on the accelerometer the impact. He got hit from behind.
I think all I can say from our side is that there is no blame attributable to Fernando, which is what some of the speculation might be. But it does say we are not getting onto the straights very well, we are suffering a bit with traction, engine speed and engine torque.
We have the data and there is nothing untoward there. You don't need to be an expert to see that.

I think it's clear it was just a racing incident with no blame attachable to Alonso. Given what went on last year between the two I thought I'd better post these before this incident gets twisted into something it isn't.

[EwanM]

A few quotes from the interested parties:

Lewis Hamilton

I have no idea. I was behind him I went to move to the right and he went to move to the right as well and I ended up on the back somehow. It's racing.

Fernando Alonso

On lap one, he touched me in Turn Four in the rear diffuser. And then on lap two he jumped over me on the straight. I don't know what happened. I was flat out...the McLaren is quite quick on the straights.
I think we were running too close and for sure maybe he didn't realise how close we were. He jumped into my rear wing. I am sure on the first couple of laps, if you are eighth or ninth, you try to recover places too quickly.
Pat Symonds told me now that rumour, and he has printed now the data to show everybody. It is totally rubbish, but what can I do?

Pat Symonds

Fernando was coming out of the turn and accelerating down the straight. He reached fifth gear, at 227km/h, on full throttle, no touching of the brakes or anything like that. And you can see on the accelerometer the impact. He got hit from behind.
I think all I can say from our side is that there is no blame attributable to Fernando, which is what some of the speculation might be. But it does say we are not getting onto the straights very well, we are suffering a bit with traction, engine speed and engine torque.
We have the data and there is nothing untoward there. You don't need to be an expert to see that.

I think it's clear it was just a racing incident with no blame attachable to Alonso. Given what went on last year between the two I thought I'd better post these before this incident gets twisted into something it isn't.

Cheers mate. Mind you Lewis V Alonso is gonna kick off sometime soon... when the king returns haha

[Kimi_Hamilton]

Thanks for posting this, for sure

Love Lewis' quote - "It's racing" - agreed.

[darwin dali]

Had it been a backmarker running into FA or LH, boy you'd have seen some penalties and accusations flying and Ferrari would have somehow ended up as the instigator and conspirator of the incident

[Red Racer]

I knew he wouldnt brake test because that would put alonso out of the race and alonso wouldnt do that.

[racechick]

Had it been a backmarker running into FA or LH, boy you'd have seen some penalties and accusations flying and Ferrari would have somehow ended up as the instigator and conspirator of the incident

Now why you have to drag ferrari into this?? Well since you have im pretty sure Ferrari would have made a fuss if they suspected they may have been brake tested. But it was nothing to do with them

[al4x]

im glad to see fa cleared swiftly, apology please itv...

[bmwpower]

why would we need clarification on this?? anyone with common sense can see its a racing incident. The only thing this thread will do is more LH/FA conspiracy negative bashing

[darwin dali]

Had it been a backmarker running into FA or LH, boy you'd have seen some penalties and accusations flying and Ferrari would have somehow ended up as the instigator and conspirator of the incident

Now why you have to drag ferrari into this?? Well since you have im pretty sure Ferrari would have made a fuss if they suspected they may have been brake tested. But it was nothing to do with them

I was bringing it up to show the difference how drivers and teams are treated - I would have liked a reprimand of some sort for LH and not just a shrug off and 'it's a racing incident' - it was amateurish and if it had taken out FA or somebody further up the grid, it would have altered the race outcome. But the golden boy is untouchable

[EwanM]

Had it been a backmarker running into FA or LH, boy you'd have seen some penalties and accusations flying and Ferrari would have somehow ended up as the instigator and conspirator of the incident

Now why you have to drag ferrari into this?? Well since you have im pretty sure Ferrari would have made a fuss if they suspected they may have been brake tested. But it was nothing to do with them

I was bringing it up to show the difference how drivers and teams are treated - I would have liked a reprimand of some sort for LH and not just a shrug off and 'it's a racing incident' - it was amateurish and if it had taken out FA or somebody further up the grid, it would have altered the race outcome. But the golden boy is untouchable

Lewis Hamilton has shown time and time again that he can still be very amateurish, not just tht incident.
The Start is the thing that stick in my mind.

[al4x]

yeah, 2 mistakes in 1 gp (and possible dnfs), finger waving, shows hes not as angelic and great as everyone wants too believe! carrying on like that will cost you a title!

[bud]

Had it been a backmarker running into FA or LH, boy you'd have seen some penalties and accusations flying and Ferrari would have somehow ended up as the instigator and conspirator of the incident

Now why you have to drag ferrari into this?? Well since you have im pretty sure Ferrari would have made a fuss if they suspected they may have been brake tested. But it was nothing to do with them

I was bringing it up to show the difference how drivers and teams are treated - I would have liked a reprimand of some sort for LH and not just a shrug off and 'it's a racing incident' - it was amateurish and if it had taken out FA or somebody further up the grid, it would have altered the race outcome. But the golden boy is untouchable

Go watch youre ballet dancing if you think Lewis should have gotten a penalty for that, That is the stupidest thing ive heard a professor say.

[texasmr2]

I saw it simply as a racing incident and nothing more.

[bud]

I saw it simply as a racing incident and nothing more.

thats how i see it dude, omg we agree on something

[Mikep99]

I saw it simply as a racing incident and nothing more.

thats how i see it dude, omg we agree on something

Oh Sh!t the world is coming to an end I agree with you too bud