After hitting Verstappen’s car, Hamilton’s car was damaged in the front left area, damage that if it had not been for the red flag that jumped into this would have been more. <\/p>\n
‘Coincidences don’t exist’<\/strong>, goes the popular saying. What some call ‘the luck of the champion’<\/strong> He smiled again at the reigning Formula 1 champion after an accident with the candidate to succeed him that left the latter out of the game, leaving Lewis Hamilton free to score as many points as possible in this fierce fight for the World Cup.<\/p>\n Yes, # 44 served a 10-second penalty after the FIA \u200b\u200bfound him guilty of the incident, but minutes before a period of the race occurred that it was vital in his stay on the track<\/strong>– A red flag that stopped the action at Silverstone and allowed Mercedes to inspect every minute detail of the British driver’s W12.<\/p>\n Andrew Shovlin<\/strong>, a track engineer from the formation commanded by Toto Wolff, has acknowledged that at that moment they perceived damage that, had it not been for said interruption, they would not have seen in any way. \u00abThe tire that hit the front left side failed us, so that would have made us abandon<\/strong> had it not been for the red flag, “he explained.<\/p>\n \u00abThe rest of the damage was really very small: it had come loose a tire temperature sensor<\/strong>It was moving back and forth, but surprisingly it is the least important part of the front wing, and it was the only one that broke, \u201dadded Shovlin. The truth is that it is not the first time that this situation has occurred in which a contestant frees the abandonment or the fall to the back of the grid by staunching his damages under the red flag period.<\/p>\n