- The seven times world champion was involved in an investigation after almost accident
- A driver was forced to take evasive measures to avoid entering the Ferrari
- The commissioners investigated after the session and quickly returned their verdict
Lewis Hamilton was defined as “F *** ING dangerous” by a furious F1 rival after a quasi-museum during the second training session in Saudi Arabia.
Hamilton, who joined Ferrari de Mercedes in an astonishing agreement of 40 million pounds sterling before this season, was the subject of an investigation after an incident on the right track in Jeddah.
Alex Albon de Williams was forced to quickly take evasive measures after having crossed the slow Scuderia of Hamilton when he was hot in the first FP2 stages.
He then retreated and evacuated his frustration about the radio.
The stewards launched an investigation on the flash point but chose not to take measures against Hamilton – which means that he avoided a potential penalty of the grid.
Explaining the decision not to punish Hamilton, the commissioners noted: “ However, as agreed with the teams, unless the entry during free practice is not considered dangerous, there will be no penalty for such an entry.
Lewis Hamilton escaped action despite his label as “dangerous” in Saudi Arabia
Hamilton was involved in a quasi-rural during the second training session in Jeddah
Alex Albon was forced to take evasive measures and evacuated his frustration about the radio
“During the hearing, the driver of the car 23 estimated that he had control of the car at any time and even if he was hampered, he did not consider the dangerous situation. He had seen the car 44 in front of him before.
“He did not expect the car 44 to be in the position on the right track in which he was and that shocked the driver of the car 23 as the turn 17 approach and had to take evasive measures.
“While his immediate reaction when the incident happened had to say that she was dangerous after examining her later, he agreed that this was not the case.
“So we didn’t take any other measure.”
Hamilton has endured a difficult second practice session and finished 13th. The veteran found himself more slowly than his teammate Ferrari Charles Leclerc.
Williams team director James Vowles said the incident was not “intentional”, but warned that other blockage examples should occur this weekend.
“There are certain parts of the track, it is mainly between turn 5 until Tour 8, where you are blind, you are fully loaded on the car, and you can no longer do much,” said Vowles to Sky Sports F1 after the sailing flag.
“You can take off, that’s about as much as you can do,” you certainly can’t brake. And that’s really what caused him.
“It is not intentional to Ferrari, but try to be stronger because we do not want an accident.”
