Bojan Vrbnjak
Most fans as well as professionals agrees that Lewis Hamilton during the race for the Bahrain Grand Prix by off - track in fourth turn gained a time advantage. What this was was hard to say. According to Ho-Pin Tung, a Dutch racer with Chinese roots, there is more than just the fastest racing line.
Ho-Pin Tung: We should take action from the first round
Sino-Dutch racer explained on twitter that tire wear is by default a serious problem at the racetrack in Bahrain. That the racer keeps his tires longer at life, all details count. Tung so he thinks it is Verstappen for example, due to differential problems suffered from faster tire wear. But a violation of the track restriction by the side also played a role Lewis Hamilton.
"Hamilton drove off the track in the fourth turn due to the fact that we have a lot of combined forces (both lateral and acceleration) on the tires. And the larger the radius, the lower the load and temperature. Therefore, I believe that the leadership of the race should take action from the first lap onwards.“It’s in the final stages of the race Hamilton vehicles on eleven laps of older tires than Verstappenn, but because in the first half of the race he drove off the track in the fourth turn, Tung he says it’s hard to say if they were Hamilton's tires in worse shape than Verstappn’s in the last laps of the race.
Van de Grint: The rules are not vague, they are just manipulated
That's right Kees van de Grint, a former tire expert at Bridgeston, who is clear about the whole situation, who doesn’t smell it and says they are race commissioners inconsistent. "In fact, nothing is unclear, but there is manipulation," so Van de Grint, who referred to the view that he had FIA a completely different result for more or less the same crime. “This is very annoying, but this is not the first time. Once it goes in one direction, another time in the other. That's ridiculous.“The Dutchman is not a supporter of asphalt excursion zonesthat allow you to drive off the track, so do it Hamilton do not disturb. Let them stand there sand barriers or something like that. However, he believes that we should allow driving through this asphalt excursion zone in any situation.
"I personally have no problem with that. There is asphalt there and you can drive on it. After that happened, I don’t know how many times they will say ‘if you do it again, you might get punished’. And Verstappen did it only once and would get a penalty right away. Then you could say that he gained a big advantage, but Hamilton also gained it by driving off the track. It’s very strange how things go. I would personally continue driving, and then we could fight behind the scenes,”Said a former tire specialist from a Japanese manufacturer Bridgestone
