Marko Hanželic
Namely, after the end of the race in Monza decided to Max Verstappen bears the bulk of the blame for the situation in the 26th round, when he got involved with the first chicane Lewis Hamilton. Team racer Red Bull will thus start in Sochi three places lower from the achievement he will achieve in the qualifiers, and at the same time two penalty points have been entered in his superlicense booklet.
Commissioner's team Tim Mayer, Garry Connelly, Vitantonio Liuzzi in Paolo Longoni she asked after the race like that Verstappen as well as Hamilton and representatives of both teams, and also examined the videos in detail.
From these it could be concluded that the Dutchman "In no time" he was no closer Hamilton as behind the rear of the front wheel, which means the Mercedes racer had the upper hand in any case. Verstappen he explained at the hearing that Hamilton turned the steering wheel in the direction of his car when exiting the first turn, thus triggering a collision between the two cars.
Hamilton he pointed out that he was Verstappen started to overtake very late and would not be able to ride the chicane without crashing into it. The commissioners then concluded that the video showed Hamilton withdrawing from Verstappn, while Dutchman with an overtaking maneuver he started too late that the British should have given you these racing room.
They added that they would Hamilton he could have turned slightly more to the right, but his position on the track was by no means controversial. In their reasoning, the Commissioners explicitly stated that the penalty relates exclusively to the incident itself and does not include the consequences. Recall, for the incident in Silverston je Lewis Hamilton got a ten second time penalty during the race.
