Talking after the dash race, Norris agreed with Alonso that it was “apparent” who was liable for the crash. “Lewis dived up the within and brought about the incident,” Norris informed the official F1 channel. “Nothing I may do about that.”
The stewards, explaining their resolution to take no additional motion, famous that the primary collision really passed off between Alonso and Stroll, fairly than Alonso and Hamilton. However they added that the “quick arrival” of Hamilton had actually contributed to the pileup.
“Nonetheless,” they continued, “we weren’t capable of establish a number of drivers wholly or predominantly guilty for the assorted collisions or any one in all them. Additionally conserving in thoughts that this was in Flip 1 of Lap 1 the place better latitude is given to drivers for incidents, we took no additional motion.”
Hamilton’s temper wouldn’t have been helped by how his Dash race finally panned out.
Though the 39 year-old survived the first-corner contact, he spent many of the ensuing 19 laps caught behind the Haas of Kevin Magnussen.
The Dane picked up no fewer than three penalties in a determined bid to carry off Hamilton, all of them “nicely deserved” by Magnussen’s personal admission, in order to permit his teammate Nico Hulkenberg to flee up the street.
And when Hamilton did lastly handle to move the Haas, and Yuki Tsunoda’s Alpine, to complete eighth, and choose up a solitary level, the Briton’s distress continued as he was hit with a drive-through penalty for rushing within the pitlane. Given he couldn’t serve it because the race was over, that transformed right into a 20-second post-race time penalty, dropping Hamilton to P16. Mockingly one place forward of Alonso.
