He did win right to be on that part of track, Nico just left him no option as he kept on going into that direction. Surely it won't be a mistake made by Nico if Lewis is not allowed to claim the cars width of space like you say.
"Sort of" is right - Hamilton was never as far alongside Rosberg as the diagram would have us believe.
I don't think that it was a blameless accident. Rather, I think that you can hold one driver more responsible than the other, but not so much as to justify a penalty.
Wow! A British newspaper trying to demonize a German F1 driver, for a blameless accident. Who'd have thought?
Fact of the matter, is this; Nico moved to defend, at the exact same time that Lewis moved to attack. Lewis didn't move into a gap that was closing because, as he started the manoeuvre, it wasn't closing. Watch the attached video; they moved at the exact same time. Not one second after each other, not half a second, not quarter of second, not quarter of a quarter of a second; the EXACT same time...
Had it not been for this freak circumstance, of both drivers moving sharply right simultaneously (coupled with the difference in closing speed), the accident could have been avoided. You keep saying how Nico "kept going into that direction", but it all happened so quickly (as you can see from the video above), that he had no time to stop "going into that direction".
What you also appear to be saying, is that Nico could have foreseen an aggressive attack to the inside by Lewis; and that Lewis could have foreseen an aggressive defence to the inside by Nico. Which is just ridiculous. They're racing drivers, not mind readers!
Both pictures would be classed as being on track here as he has part of one wheel on it on second picture.
Watching from the on board camera, it was blindingly obvious that Hamilton was faster.
Or course he was. Otherwise he wouldn't have tried to pass.... It was the unanticipated speed diference no driver could be expected to compensate for.
Drivers have to navigate slow-moving traffic all the time. Remember what Button said about Haryanto? "I know he thinks he's fast, but he isn't."
Nico was already doing stuff on steering wheel knowing he was much slower and a strong move to the inside to block Lewis overtaking that direction which is way he compensated for mistake. He wouldn't need to defend at all if he had the right mode.
As Nico is fellow teammate, think it was a bit too strong what he did.
Think psychologically helps Lewis as he didn't lose points to Nico, first time in the season that's been the case. Also next time there should be more space given in similar circumstance and Nico will know Lewis is not the kind of driver to back out of it. If Lewis backed out of it though this race or Nico still managed to continue, think Nico would have upper hand then but he didn't.
Apples and oranges. They drive the same car, not cars with widely different performances.
You claim that there was an "unanticipated speed difference". I refuted that by pointing out that drivers encounter slower cars all the time. The fact that it's a different car doesn't matter.
I don't think he intended for Hamilton to have a race-ending crash - but nor do I think he'd have been particularly bothered if he had (which takes us back to the psychopathy of racing drivers).
If it wasn't unanticipated why did he go on the grass?
Because he didn't anticipate the defensive move from Rosberg. He knew the difference in speed was there; he just didn't think that Rosberg would move over. That's why I think Hamilton was more responsible than Rosberg - from Rosberg's position, the lack of speed meant that a defensive move was the only move available. Hamilton should have been able to anticipate it.
How I wished Hamilton just crash and didn't took anyone with him, less debate ?
