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Crossing the white line: Dirty tricks
- Updated: November 28, 2016
Toto Wolff best summed it up by saying he was in a “schizophrenic situation” in Abu Dhabi, and so too is PlanetF1’s Melvill.
Lewis Hamilton’s ‘dirty tricks’ It was the big debate ahead of Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, would Lewis Hamilton back up Nico Rosberg into the chasing pack in order to win the World title.
Hamilton said it would be unpractical and unwise.
Well, unwise it definitely was.
The issue is not with Hamilton’s “dirty tricks”, which is how Sebastian Vettel labelled his slow pace in the closing laps at the Yas Marina circuit, it is the blatant disregard for team orders.
Hamilton had every right to back up the field, he was racing for the win on Sunday and to retain the World title. That is, of course, why every driver lines up on the grid Sunday after Sunday.
He was told by Mercedes to up his pace. He told Mercedes to “let us race.”
As the laps counted down, he was again told to speed it up and it was made clear that it was an “instruction”, ie, not a suggestion.
He told Mercedes: “Right now, I’m losing the World Championship, so I’m not bothered if I’m going to lose the …
