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McLaren boss defends Hamilton
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh has come to the defence of Lewis Hamilton, saying he did nothing wrong in his collision with Mark Webber that dealt a major blow to his championship chances.
The Briton failed to finish his second race in a row after being forced to to retire from the Singapore Grand Prix after making contact with Red Bull’s Webber when trying to overtake the Australian on lap 36.
His disappointment was clear when he threw his steering wheel from the car before clambering out.
The failure to finish followed a similar scenario in Monza two weeks ago when he collided with Felipe Massa’s Ferrari.
Sunday’s retirement leaves him 20 points behind Webber in the championship race with four Grand Prix to go.
“I think Lewis was very unlucky,” www.autosport.com quoted Whitmarsh as saying.
“I am sure people may, because it is easy journalism, look at two races in a trot we have an incident but I think if you look at what happened Lewis did not make a late lunge.
“We can get heated about blame but I think Mark has got to race as well, but the important thing from my perspective was that from Lewis it was not a desperate overtaking, it was a solid overtaking manoeuvre.
“Whenever you overtake in any form of motor racing there is a degree of risk and he was unlucky that it did not come off this time.”
Hamilton said he was still trying to work out what happened.
“I’m still not exactly sure what happened with Mark and me,” he said after the race.
“But, telling it from my point of view, I saw that he’d made a mistake, and had got caught up with the backmarkers, so I was in position to slipstream him.
“I was on the outside going into Turn Seven, and he was in my blind spot, just behind me. I thought I’d got sufficiently past him, though.
“I braked, turned in, and tried to leave enough room for him on the inside — and the next thing I knew I’d got clipped, my tyre was blown, and that was it. But, as the saying goes, I guess that’s motor racing.”
A steward’s inquiry was opened into the incident but concluded that no further action would be taken against either driver.
Webber went on to finish third.
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