Felipe Massa says Lewis Hamilton is ‘crazy’ if he believes that the Brazilian deliberately tried to take him out in qualifying in Abu Dhabi.
The pair got tangled up in Q2 while on out laps, and Lewis was forced to run over a chicane, knocking down a bollard in the process. Hamilton still managed to set a lap time and get through, but at the time he accused Massa on the radio of ‘trying to take me out.’
“First of all he was completely to the wrong side of the track and didn’t let me by,” said Massa. “And then he tried to push the car over, beyond the corner. I was on the normal line. If he said that, he’s completely crazy.”
Massa’s preparations for his final lap were compromised when he had to get out of the way of Fernando Alonso and allow him a clear track.
“It was not great to be honest on the opening lap, and then I had a problem to prepare my lap, and I couldn’t, so I couldn’t do the lap like I expected. It was a big casino there on the out lap to try to prepare the tyres. I couldn’t prepare to open my lap, so for sure it was supposed to be a lot better than that.”
Massa’s plan for tomorrow is to “try to overtake as many cars as possible…”
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It will be interesting to see what the stewards do with Hamilton.
Considering its his second offence in two days, i wouldn’t be overly surprised to see a grid penalty applied.
I remember Lewis said a bit ill yesterday.
He might catch Sato Takuma Syndrome…
Yeah it was a bit of a 50-50 deal. I think Hamilton had pulled out of the way of a car that was ahead of Massa, then thought he could get back by Massa.
Either way this is a great example of how in the multi-billion dollar sport of Formula 1, you’d think they could afford a few spotters like them hillbillies in NASCAR do.
For me it was clear that Massa could have left him more room.
Hamilton wouldn’t have seen Massa until he was right beside him because of how he approached in his blind spot.
Hamilton shouldn’t get a fine at_all.. if anything Mclaren should for not informing him but that’d be daft in itself especially as NOBODY suffered from the incident.
If Massa was on a hot lap and didn’t get through to Q3 it’s an entirely different matter.
It looked to me like one of two things happened.
Hamilton slowed to create some space and then sped up because (1) he was ready to go and didn’t realize Massa was there or (2) he did see Massa coming, realized he screwed up, and panicked.
Judging by past performances my inclination is for the second scenario.