The damage wouldn't have been too bad but it's when the tyre started flailing is when the real damage was done. If he had driven slower it would have not caused as much damage.
Good observation nin-chin. In fact Bianchi did that very thing on the same lap as Hamilton except he had further to go having suffered his puncture on the first corner. Bianchi cleverly got his car back in one piece and drove a good race after that.
Bianchi had a slow puncture I.e there was air in the tube, Lewis suffered de lamination, we went through all this before and to avoid a delamination with a deflated tyre would involve sub 20 mph recovery to the pits by which time he would have been lapped around 7 times
So why the attempt at mild irritation , do you thnk the facts change because you distort the truth?
Just rewatch the race Cookin, your memory couldn't be more wrong.
Bianchi's tire was not a slow leak at all, and was completely delaminated as well. Lewis's tire actually lasted until the back side of the course and it was at Blanchimont that he did all the damage still driving fast with the tire flailing into the body work just a few corners from the pit lane.
It was an easy mistake to make in the heat of the moment and definitely had a good reason to be upset.
Anyway any points he may have missed due the floor damage is probably moot now that he has the upper hand in the championship and again is looking dominant so far at Sochi as well.
Ps. And don't get so mad at the messenger, it was Coulthard who had identified that Hamilton had done damage to his floor as he stopped in pit lane.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. - Winston Churchill
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