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MONAfiasCO

5/25/2015

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Having made a real effort to avoid hearing the result beforehand, I watched the Monaco Grand Prix highlights yesterday evening. Hamilton was imperious and his victory looked like a forgone conclusion…

...before his team ruined everything.

With only a handful of laps left, safety cars (virtual and actual) were deployed and Hamilton’s team called him in for a totally unnecessary tyre change. Rosberg and Vettel stayed out and Hamilton re-joined in third, which is the position he finished the race in (given that overtaking in Monaco is so hard).

I was so cross that I was out of my chair and actually shouting at the telly and the Mercedes team.

Hamilton himself was clearly angrier than me but he handled the situation with a maturity that was commendable.

Rosberg was gifted the win by the Mercedes team; watching him celebrating a victory that he simply didn’t deserve rubbed it in for me. I found myself wondering if there was some kind of conspiracy at play rather than a genuine cock-up.

It’s the depth of my frustration that has surprised me because I was properly angry, in fact I still am; enough to write this post and share my angst. It was only a race and yet to me the result felt like a genuine injustice.

Niki Lauder was bluntly critical of his team and rightly so. I hope that Mercedes pay Hamilton the race win bonus that he deserved – that wouldn’t actually make Hamilton any happier, but at least there would be some kind of justice served.

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