I would say this is why the BBC team came down hard on Maldonado.
And deservedly so, but in the process they also
completely ignored Hamilton's contribution to the incident, which then of course leads to accusations of bias. Accusations that gained further credence on Sunday when they attempted to suggest that it was Koba that caused the incident on Sunday.
Maldonado's was down right dangerous - he had no idea what Hamilton was going to do yet appeared to try to take him out.
We should remember that it was Hamilton that swerved first in an apparent attempt to intimidate Maldonado.
Given this
fact, one could quite easily change a couple of the above words and say
Hamilton was down right dangerous - he had no idea what Maldonado was going to do yet appeared to try to take him out.
Because that is what happened. Hamilton's initial swerve caused Maldonado to take evasive action, had he not done so, then Hamilton may well of hit him.
Swings and roundabouts...
As DC pointed out, there may be anamosity between the two, but fisticuffs is a much better way than try to cause him to have an accident.
It was stupid of Maldonado to retaliate in the way that he did, but maybe he was just sick of Hamilton's driving etiquette, been taken out in Monaco, almost taken out in Spa, and then have him attempting to intimidate by swerving and waving his hand about like an idiot, perhaps he should've just waited to get back to the pits, drag Hamilton out of his car, and to quote another of DC's quips,
"kick three colours of **** out of the little bastard".
Hamilton's big problem now of course, is that Vettel is driving with maturity, when he's not winning he's picking up the points, in other words he's being super-quick, super-consistent. Where as Hamilton is crashing into everything that moves, and generally driving like a rookie and that is a very,
very big problem for Hamilton at the moment. That said, it's better that he gets it all out of his system before he leaves the dark side.
