Bojan Vrbnjak
A few minutes before the start of the race GP of Russia the race commissioners announced that Lewis Hamilton under investigation for practicing the start in an unauthorized place. Instead of British did so in the area written in the rules is Hamilton practiced outside the exit of the pits.
Investigation, completed during the race, revealed that Hamilton violated the rules and did so twice, for which he received two penalties after 5 seconds, which prevented him from fighting for victory. Shovlin, chief engineer of the team Mercedes, considers that the race commissioners have been informed competitors. "This is often the case if there is too much rubber in a particular spot, this is not representative of grip. Racers as well as engineers try to find something that is closer to the grip on the starting line," so British. "So it came to pass that Lewis asked if he could go a little further out of the pits and we didn’t realize how far he intended."
"But in reality, he was trying to find a piece of asphalt that was similar to the one on the starting line. We didn't see his first attempt, and when we saw the second, we thought the commissioners wouldn't like it,” he says Shovlin. "We are sure that this was not dangerous and given that it is also written in the note that he was on the right side of the exit from the pits, we thought it was ambiguous enough to… .When we saw the position of the car, there was no no surprise that they won’t like it and no doubt there were teams that labeled this case the way they noticed it with the FIA and the commissioners. I do not know,He added Shovlin.
