I don't think Hamilton brake tested Vettel in the true sense of the word. But the odd thing was that he kept braking and bleeding speed through the entry of the corner and well past the apex too. Right when Vettel probably expected him to accelerate. You could argue that there's no excuse for running into the back of Hamilton regardless of what he was doing in the front. But what Hamilton did there was against the code and not on at all.

This isn't to excuse what Vettel did after at all, which I still believe was a stupidly careless mistake to not straighten up the car because he was so focused on wildly waving his hands at Hamilton his moment of red mist.

There is a structural problem with antics behind the pacecar. Sudden slowdowns or excessive braking. Make it mandatory to stick 2-3 carlengths behind the pacecar and actually penalize people who ignore it.

They need to get the SC an escape road on this circuit. Get the bitch off the track at the start of the straight, let them go, then the SC can get back to the pitlane. Heck, even the last corner run-off would be perfect for this.

All the restarts were hairy for some reason or another. In the first restart you had a slow moving safety car in the pit road that the whole field passed at full speed. If there's a tangle then you have someone going into it sideways/flying at 350kph. I love me some spectacle, but this straight is one of the rare potentially deadly locations of the season and should really be treated with caution in restarts.

If you drive into someone intentionally you should be disqualified, period. 5km/h or 300km/h doesn't matter. Maldonado did it to Hamilton at Spa a few years ago and was disqualified from qualifying wasn't he?

If Vettel did it accidentally and admitted it I wouldn't mind, but I haven't seen that yet. Lets be honest he's too proud for that.

Did anyone catch Hamilton asking the team if they could get Bottas to slow down so as to create some dirty air for Vettel? If that doesn't prove Bottas is already his bitch, I don't know what is.

No, it proves that he considers that Bottas should be his bitch.

The fact neither the team nor Bottas complied shows that he is not. Just because Hamilton says something on the radio and it's broadcasted on TV, doesn't mean Bottas or Mercedes or Charlie will take it into account.

Just read the article again. And then watch the video again. Look at the shift lights that indicate constant speed of Hamilton and then maybe read the article for a third time. Lewis did nothing wrong. Vettel assumed that Lewis would accelerate, but he didn't. Its 100% Vettels fault.

FIA should use a LMP2 prototype as safety car to see if drivers can stop complaining about slow speed

I barely believed - I didn't see the race, went to bed before it because I had to be up early for work. The night before I had a dream that Danny R won and Stroll was 2nd. The only thing that ruined the realism was that Ralf Schumacher finished 3rd and someone was driving a flying car, but uncanny isn't it?

They need to get the SC an escape road on this circuit. Get the bitch off the track at the start of the straight, let them go, then the SC can get back to the pitlane. Heck, even the last corner run-off would be perfect for this.

All the restarts were hairy for some reason or another. In the first restart you had a slow moving safety car in the pit road that the whole field passed at full speed. If there's a tangle then you have someone going into it sideways/flying at 350kph. I love me some spectacle, but this straight is one of the rare potentially deadly locations of the season and should really be treated with caution in restarts.