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[sagi58]

Hamilton out in Q1 after off in turn 1 damages hydraulics. Will start 14th on the grid.
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Karun Chandhok
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Just spoke with Toto Wolff who confirmed that unfortunately that trip over the exit kerb at Turn 1 led to a drop in Hydraulic pressure and caused them to make the call for Lewis to stop the car. Going to be fun to see what he can do tomorrow! @C4F1

Should be an exciting race tomorrow with both Ricciardo and Hamilton starting way down the order. Hamilton could still get a podium and Ricciardo well into the top ten.

Please correct me, if I'm wrong... but, this mean that Hamilton damaged his own car when he went over that curb?

[sagi58]

Hamilton out in Q1 after off in turn 1 damages hydraulics. Will start 14th on the grid.
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Karun Chandhok
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@karunchandhok

Just spoke with Toto Wolff who confirmed that unfortunately that trip over the exit kerb at Turn 1 led to a drop in Hydraulic pressure and caused them to make the call for Lewis to stop the car. Going to be fun to see what he can do tomorrow! @C4F1

Should be an exciting race tomorrow with both Ricciardo and Hamilton starting way down the order. Hamilton could still get a podium and Ricciardo well into the top ten.

Please correct me, if I'm wrong... but, this mean that Hamilton damaged his own car when he went over that curb?

Oh, wait... what was I thinking? No way could it be his fault...

Laurence Edmondson, F1 Editor  wrote:">Story of qualifying: Vettel takes full advantage of Hamilton's heartache

Shock: We are not used to seeing a Mercedes by the side of the track in Q1. Having already set a time good enough to advance to Q2, Lewis Hamilton ran wide at Turn 1 on his next flying lap and clobbered the kerb on the exit. Soon after his car refused to shift from fourth gear due to a loss of hydraulic pressure, knocking him out of qualifying on the spot. Seeing him attempt to push the car back to the pits showed just how much he wanted to continue in qualifying and the images of him kneeling next to his Mercedes behind the crash barriers showed how utterly devastated he was by the mistake. Hamilton later told reporters that he believed the issue occurred on the car before he ran wide.

[myownalias]

When LH started out in F1, I really liked and supported him, but over the years I have grown to dislike him, my opinions started to change during his time at McLaren partnered by Jenson Button. And the latest crap from him in the past two races, make me dislike him even more, seriously, lobbying the F1 management to drop Rosberg from the podium interviews, what a childish p***k, and I have to say that Liberty is weak to pander to him, they should tell him to suck it up.

On the race itself, is this the turning point of the season, could this be Ferrari's year, it genuinely seems that Ferrari has a better car as we approach the mid-season break!

[darwin dali]

I remember last year around the same time of the year, Ferrari/SV were doing really well, leading the championship with a win at the last race in Hungary before the summer break only to get slaughtered quite brutally by Mercedes/LH after the break...

[myownalias]

I remember last year around the same time of the year, Ferrari/SV were doing really well, leading the championship with a win at the last race in Hungary before the summer break only to get slaughtered quite brutally by Mercedes/LH after the break...

Yes, but this year feels different, it is Mercedes making the errors, not Ferrari, only time will tell, maybe I am just desperate for another team to win the title, we had four years of Red Bull, then four years of Mercedes (should they win this year), from a relative neutral, that really gets old fast!

[overboost]

Yes sagi it looks like Hamilton going for an off track excursion gave his car a good clobbering and snapped an hydraulics line.



However as you have posted Hamilton is protesting that his car was already broken before he ran the curbs. Blames Merc of course. However he went off the lap before in the same place. So back to Lewis!

As the car still had good power on that final lap I would say that the hydraulic pressure was fine until the final clobbering because without it the valves in the engine (hydraulically operated) would not function and the engine would simply die.

For the race tomorrow Hamilton is driving a car that is 2-3 seconds a lap faster than all but 4 cars in front of him. He will be well into the points or even on the podium especially if Bottas keeps his radio turned on and gets the order!

[gdh]

Team Mercedes definitely schooled Ferrari on strategy today.

[Andrew Dawson]

Why no penalty for Hamilton for cutting from pit lane, back to track. Yet another example of of a bad penalty system

[darwin dali]

Yup

[sagi58]

Yes sagi it looks like Hamilton going for an off track excursion gave his car a good clobbering and snapped an hydraulics line.



However as you have posted Hamilton is protesting that his car was already broken before he ran the curbs. Blames Merc of course. However he went off the lap before in the same place. So back to Lewis!

As the car still had good power on that final lap I would say that the hydraulic pressure was fine until the final clobbering because without it the valves in the engine (hydraulically operated) would not function and the engine would simply die.

For the race tomorrow Hamilton is driving a car that is 2-3 seconds a lap faster than all but 4 cars in front of him. He will be well into the points or even on the podium especially if Bottas keeps his radio turned on and gets the order!

What's completely ANNOYING is Mercedes confirming that it wasn't Hamilton's excursion.
That there was an issue and that's why he lost it over the curbs.
What the hell??

[sagi58]

Why no penalty for Hamilton for cutting from pit lane, back to track. Yet another example of of a bad penalty system

Actually, it's yet another example of how to keep your temperamental golden goose laying eggs!

p.s. Andrew,

[sagi58]

So... Hamilton has been called before the Stewards for that little "oops"!

Who wants to bet it's going to be a little slap on the wrist admonishing the team
and a pat on the back because he didn't hit anyone??

[sagi58]

And, this is how a man faces the media... he sucks it up and puts on a "public" face...

 wrote:">
Vettel 'won't lose sleep' over Germany error

...Vettel’s onboard camera showed him pounding his steering wheel in frustration in the immediate aftermath of the crash, and he sounded in tears as he sent an expletive-laden apology to his Ferrari team.

By the time he’d made it back to the interview pen, however, a more smiley Vettel was philosophical about the accident.

“I don't think it was a huge mistake,” he reckoned. “It was a huge impact on the race because we retired there, but it's not like tonight I will have difficulty to fall asleep because of what I've done wrong. I think it's disappointing because up to that point, everything was sweet… We didn't need the rain.

“[Today] was just one of those moments and my mistake, so apologies to the team. They did everything right, I had it in my hand. Small mistake, big disappointment.”

[sagi58]

For the record, we all know that Ferrari employs team orders as it's part of their strategy; but, today...
Today, we had confirmation that "hold station" is a team order that Mercedes employs.
How? The apology issued to Bottas, after he was given that direct ""team order""!!

 wrote:">German GP: 'Valtteri, please hold position' - Team to Bottas

p.s. was the "botched" pit stop Bottas had to suffer yet another strategy used by Mercedes?

[darwin dali]

So... Hamilton has been called before the Stewards for that little "oops"!

Who wants to bet it's going to be a little slap on the wrist admonishing the team
and a pat on the back because he didn't hit anyone??

You were right of course...
https://www.motorsportweek.com/news/id/19208