I find it hard to call pushing Rosberg off the track at turn four (a number of times), and cutting across the front of his car at the first turn 'nothing notable'. With the former I could understand why he did it had the front of Nico's car only just been in line with his rear wheels, but Rosberg was usually well alongside Hamilton when he did it.
Of course but we are talking specifically about Rosberg and Hamilton.
I remembered the incident slightly differently but having gone back and looked at it again, you've got a good point there. Also Hamilton had gone pretty deep himself so it was either that, or run off the track. And conceed postion. Which he was right not to do, so Nico should have seen that one coming.
He was 1.6 behind Kobayashi in FP2, so he closed the gap, probably due to getting better situated with the car.
I thought he'd be slightly off due to having to get adjusted to the car, although I didn't expect him to be that far off. I thought having driven the Marussia earlier in the year he'd at least be somewhat familiar with the characteristics of a turbo car. It's good to hear he's picking up the pace now though!
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For me, Rosberg leads Hamilton going into the final laps. Rather than settle for second, Hamilton dives down the inside and the two touch. Hamilton is given a post-race penalty while Rosberg limps on to the finish, where he becomes champion. Hamilton's fans pit up a vigorous defence, but parallels are drawn to a similar mistake the Maldonado makes, and they are forced to concede that Hamilton blew another title chance with a silly mistake.
How was it illegal? Because of the double diffuser? The stewards ruled that it was perfectly fine. The big teams just kicked up a stink because they didn't think of it.
