Lewis Hamilton the dirtiest driver in F1?

April 24, 2010

Now we know why Fernando Alonso hated his guts so much.

In case you missed the fourth race of the 2010 F1 season which pretty much concludes the Asian leg of this year’s campaign, McLaren scored a dominant one-two finish to put them in the lead for the constructors’ title.

Thanks to Jenson Button scoring his second win of the season, McLaren Mercedes took the lead from Ferrari in this year’s race for the constructors’ championship. McLaren now has 109 championship points to Ferrari’s 90.

However, the story was Lewis Hamilton, who finished second fastest behind his teammate to give McLaren the one-two finish. How come? Well, he was back to his old antics that estranged former teammate Fernando Alonso a couple of years ago and although Hamilton and Button haven’t banged heads yet, trust me when I say that it’s only a matter of time.

Perhaps the most intriguing stunt Lewis Hamilton pulled was when he and Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel went wheel to wheel in Shanghai over the weekend. There’s nothing wrong with that when you do it on the race track but when you do it on the freaking pit lane?!? There’s something terribly wrong with you.

Coming in for new tires, Sebastian Vettel was well on his way to the pit lane when Lewis Hamilton all of a sudden, jumped in front of him to have his new set of tires as well. It didn’t end there though.

As soon as Vettel left his pit box, Hamilton tried to jump in again in front of him, only this time, he caught the right side of Vettel’s car as Hamilton went wheel to wheel with the Red Bull driver, putting everybody’s pit crew in jeopardy.

Refusing to yield to Vettel, Hamilton continued to race side by side with Vettel as soon as they exited the pit lane. The two got out with Vettel just ahead of Hamilton. The cocky McLaren Mercedes driver should’ve been slapped with some sort of penalty but luckily for him, the stewards didn’t sanction any during the race, allowing Hamilton to finish the race in second place.

When asked about the incident, Hamilton sounded like a douche.

”I’m not really aware, I’m not sure what you are talking about,” Lewis Hamilton said. But reminded of the incident, Hamilton said he believed there was nothing wrong with it.

”As far as I’m concerned it’s okay. The team waited quite some time and I got quite a lot of wheel spin so I struggled to get out of the box. I noticed Sebastian was there, he pushed me quite a lot. But I felt it was fair.”

Can Lewis Hamilton win the 2010 F1 world championship? Bodog sportsbook has the odds.

Michael Schumacher 6.00

Fernando Alonso 3.50

Lewis Hamilton 4.50

Sebastien Vettel 6.50

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