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luwalira said:
Once again FIA's Ferrari bias is in practice. Hamilton and Rosberg made errors, received a penalty. Kimi plough into Sutil in Monaco but walks away with a clean slate. 
I think there is a huge difference between losing control of your car at 300+ km/h while breaking hard, and not being able to spot a basic thing like a red light at the pitlane exit.
Kimi's driving at Monaco was unfortunate, perhaps a result of wanting to make up for lost time/points, who knows - and in any case sickeningly bad luck for Sutil who deserved the points more than any that day.
FWIW Kimi repeatedly excused his error, also to Sutil personally.
Hamilton is a tremendously gifted young driver. Fast and very very stabil for a rookie/2. seasoner.
Having said that, I more and more believe that he lacks a basic quality to ever become a truly great driver, and his mistake today demonstrated that: Either he cant multitask or he doesn't have the ability to keep cool when it really counts.
His mistake today was a rookie mistake. Something you do in your first race.
Much like his previous button-fumbling and sand-trap mishaps were in 07.
I have no doubts that his mistake today was very unintentional, since it destroyed his own race, too. If he had only fracked up his own race, that would've been fine. Instead he also ended Kimi's race.
Why he chose to ram Kimi and not Kubica, one can only guess.
Perhaps he thought Kimi was overtaking Kubica - or perhaps his subconscience made the choice for him. Who knows.
Now he gets a 10-place penalty for Magny-Cours. That's probably fair enough.
No matter what happens, this probably wont lessen the admiration of both ITV commentators and other Hamilton fans, who are more blinded by his ability to drive fast at an early age while being PC, colored and marketable - than his lack of ability to perform even the simplest tasks behind an F1 wheel.
My prediction is he will end in top 3 this year.
Whether he will ever be a legendary champ or simply disappear with time remains to be seen. My money is on the latter. He has the skill in the fastness department, but lacks something when it comes to focus.
And he either has to learn that pretty quickly or really make up for it by winning every race he finishes (assuming that his mistakes will make him DNF for the rest).
A lot of people find him an interesting driver - and he probably does a lot of good PR-wise for the sport and his team. However, I for one could do without him in F1. I hate his attitude and find his driving erratic at best.
From F1.com:
Commenting on the incident, Hamilton said:
"As I exited the box, I saw two cars jostling for position ahead of me in the pit lane. Obviously, I didn't want to get involved in their tussle, and was trying not to do so, and then all of a sudden they stopped. And by the time they'd come to a halt, it was too late for me to avoid them. It's just unfortunate when stuff like this happens, but I have no argument with the stewards."
"There's not much I can say," was Raikkonen's reaction. "My race was ruined by Hamilton's mistake. Obviously, anyone can make mistakes, as I did two weeks ago in Monaco, but it's one thing to make a mistake at two hundred (miles) per hour but another to hit a car stopped at a red light. I am not angry because that doesn't achieve anything and does not change my result! I am unhappy, because I had a great chance of winning."
A straight apology (not "if I ruined his race..") from Fumbleton would have been in order here.
How Kimi managed to not bitchslap Hamilton after the incident, I dont know. I think I would have had I been in Kimi's shoes.
I guess these guys are used to these mistakes.
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