Sebastian Vettel’s touchy sideways swipe at Lewis Hamilton in Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix was only one episode among numerous in a surprising race, yet one bound to be replayed unendingly in the years ahead.
The demonstration of a driver calculatedly colliding with another to pick up preference is no irregularity in this game – episodes including Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher jump in a flash to mind – however visually impaired, careless street seethe is less normal.
Vettel’s activities in Baku were precisely that. It was the intuition of a child in the play area – foolishly lashing out with no thought for the outcomes.
The demonstration of a driver calculatedly colliding with another to pick up preference is no irregularity in this game – episodes including Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher jump in a flash to mind – however visually impaired, careless street seethe is less normal.
Vettel’s activities in Baku were precisely that. It was the intuition of a child in the play area – foolishly lashing out with no thought for the outcomes.
It could have resigned him on the spot. It didn’t as it turned out, yet the 10-second stop-go punishment that took after denied him a specific triumph in the light of the head rest issues that hit Hamilton later in the race.
A standout amongst the most acclaimed occurrences of a driver losing it in marvelous design played out on a splashing evening at the Belgian Grand Prix 19 years prior when race pioneer Michael Schumacher hammered into the back of David Coulthard in the midst of a mass of shower as he attempted to lap the McLaren.
“Goodness god!” came the yell from Murray Walker in the analysis box as Schumacher’s car was decreased to three wheels in a matter of moments.
The two cars come back to the pits, where Schumacher – red fog completely slid – jumped from his cockpit and pursued to the McLaren carport, disregarding the arguing of a Ferrari engineer as he went, where he was just kept from laying his hands on the British driver by a mass of Coulthard’s mechanics.
It could have resigned him on the spot. It didn’t as it turned out, yet the 10-second stop-go punishment that took after denied him a specific triumph in the light of the head rest issues that hit Hamilton later in the race.
