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Silverstone – While Lewis Hamilton backpedaled on his
Ferrari Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen criticism Monday, the head of the Italian team
Maurizio Arrivabene launches a scathing attack against the team Mercedes .
Hamilton stated that he had accepted Finn's apology for driving
in him in Sunday's British Grand Prix and learned from his own
"stupid" reaction to the incident.
As Arrivabene raged at the unresponsive behavior of Mercedes and
Post-race suggestions for deliberate sneak tactics, Hamilton said Sunday
collision was "a racing incident and nothing more."
The collision on the opening lap was the second in three
races in which a Ferrari had hit a Mercedes, which led to several at Mercedes
question the tactics of the Italian team.
"Kimi said sorry and I accept it and we move on to something else"
Hamilton wrote on Instagram. "It was a racing incident and nothing more.
Sometimes we say stupid shit and we learn from him. "
Hamilton started the race from pole position, but after a
bad start and collision with Raikkonen fell to the 19th and last, before
recovering to finish second behind rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari.
In France, two weeks earlier, Vettel drove to Valtteri
Bottas of Mercedes on the opening lap. In both cases, the Commissioners penalized
Ferrari drivers for the incidents.
Sunday, the team leader Mercedes Toto Wolff said:
James Allison's words "Do you think it's deliberate or incompetent? so that
He leaves us with a judgment. "
Arrivabene was livid when he answered on Monday.
" I came here to clarify, if he actually said something
like that, "says Arrivabene, talking to Sky Italia about Allison, who
left Ferrari in mid-2016 and joined Mercedes in 2017.
"I mean, he should be ashamed of himself, because he
worked for many years in Maranello, he took a lot of money from Maranello, as
Well …
"Today, he does his job, you have to be elegant and
know how to lose. We are here in England. Sometimes they want to teach us how
to be gentlemen. He should start first.
"Really, it bored me so much.
incompetent … Who? Kimi? Who is he to judge what the driver does in the car?
"I can accept Jacques [Villeneuve, Sky Italia
pundit] because he was a driver, but this person?"
Arrivabene suggested Allison should not blame others for her
Disappointment of the team against a crowd of 140,000 spectators.
"First of all, he should look at telemetry and
understand that his driver, unfortunately for himself, had a bad start …
"So having a bad start, he immediately lost two
positions. Kimi made a good start. We have telemetry data, so he found
himself immediately above Hamilton …
"And I want to remind everyone that in China we had a
situation between Vettel and Verstappen and no one said anything. Everything is fine!
"But, I mean … I want to give them a message – that's it
was a great battle, a battle that I think the public enjoyed.
"There will be other battles, where most likely
Mercedes will win, but it's a lesson for us to stay chic – a thing that
they did not do it today. "
Meanwhile, Hamilton who missed a chance of a sixth straight line
victory in his home race sent a message to his fans.
"Thanks for letting me be with me
defaults. I know I'm not perfect, "he wrote.
" Accept who you are and love yourself
important. Are going to be awesome today and be you and give zero fcks to that everybody
thought. "
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