Damon Hill believes the spectacular track battle organized by Charles Leclerc, Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton at the end of the British Grand Prix was tough but correct.
Carlos Sainz managed to break away from this group and won the race, but the participants were ahead of each other several times, defending very hard and sometimes finding themselves out of the track, after which Fernando Alonso, who followed, predicted a penalty for Leclerc, but the stewards were never punished.
“There was a bit of contact between the cars, the drivers pushed a bit, but when the race management got a protest they sorted it out very quickly,” said the 1996 world champion, participating in the F1 Nation podcast from the official website of The championship. – There he was rejected and said that they would not do anything, because the fight was correct. I think this is a good sign.
During the race it happens that the opponent starts to overtake you on the inner track and there is not enough space for everyone on the track. Sometimes you have to use the whole width! We saw Lewis go off the track in Turn 3 and you could say it was Sergio pushing him out, but in fact it wasn’t. Sergio was able to dive into the inside radius and Lewis had to give up position.
It was very interesting to see all this, and I thought the fight was tough, but correct. The duel between Charles and Lewis in the Copse corner was incredible.”
Hill also noted that the British race was another confirmation of the effectiveness of the changes made to the aerodynamics of cars in line with the new technical regulations – this was fully reflected at the Silverstone circuit.
“There were a few processional-style races where the drivers couldn’t get close enough to the cars in fast corners to use DRS, but this time they did,” said Hill. “The riders were able to overtake the cars, hold them in the Maggotts-Becketts section and have a pretty tight chase on the straight up to the Stowe corner.
We’ve seen very intense competition on the track and I think it shows that these cars can stay close together for a long time in corners with a lot of downforce, making for an exciting finish.”
Source: F1 News
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