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Originally Posted by Iceman
He got punished for it. Hamilton didn't.
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Hamilton didn't jump the start.... there isn't a grey area with this one. And Hamilton didn't gain an advantage whereas Alonson clearly did.
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What did Vettel ever do? Hamilton passed Vettel on the pit entry straigh, was all over the white lines and then when Red Bull clearly (!) was faster and let Vettel out earlier, Hamilton tried to block him. Vettel had the line, Hamilton should've backed down.
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Hamilton & vettel were acutally side by side coming into the pit lane (see link below). Hamilton had the inside line and hence went in ahead. The McLaren lollipop goes up 1 second after Vettel so Hamilton wasn't released into Vettel although Hamilton didn't get grip and ended up next to Vettel and actually did pretty well to steady the car & not go into him. Watch the end of the link below and look how little room Vettel gives Hamilton - you can actually fit another car between Vettel and the wall.
Hamilton didn't try to block him as he wasn't ahead, but yes he should have yielded and Vettel shouldn't have pushed him into the Engineers, but it wasn't a situation of Hamiltons making and he didn't try and squeeze Vettel which would have been more dangerous - he did back off eventually.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcz...-hamilton_auto
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"Didn't get a grip", bullshit. Hamilton is lying all the time, you could even see it in the press conference, it's been a while since I've seen someone so uncomfortable.
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He's probably thinking - here we go again, another excuse for a collecting bashing by the other drivers. Watching the link above Vettel is doing the more dangerous manouvers and it was right that they were both warned. Otherwise next race you would have seen Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton down 5 places along with all the other drivers with indiscretions of which there are a lot - don't forget that Hamilton also was pushed onto the grass behind the safety car, not sure by whom though.
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He can drive, but he needs to drive under the same rules as everyone else. He gets away with murder because he's Ecclestone's favourite. Once he starts driving with the same ruleset as the rest, I'll shut up. Right now he's liek a young Schumacher who's thinking "they can't touch me". All it takes is one judge with balls and he'll start learning.
Ice
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He got punished for just about everything apart from speeding on track the last couple of years and while he does push the rules where there are grey areas he isn't driving dangerously so far this year which is more than you can say for a number of the other 'top' drivers. The fact that we have ex-racers on the judges panel means there is a bit more common sense being applied.