Nothing much new has come out regarding the Kimi/Lewis incident, so the comments on blogs across the internet are simply filled with the same things.  Those who support Lewis continue to do so and those who are pretty comfortable with the outcome are similarly unmoved to change their opinion.

As was pointed out in the comments of the last post, none other than Niki Lauda has come out in support of Lewis and his driving in Belgium.

In the interest of fairness, let’s see what he has to say for himself.

He was on the outside, and then let him (Raikkonen) by, which is the rule.  Niki Lauda

Is this the rule though?  This is what I’ve been considering to be the crux of the matter - it’s the general feeling that all Hamilton had to do was allow Kimi to regain the place, but from what others believe he should have basically also opened up a little gap behind Kimi as well - or at the very least waited a corner or so before attempting to pass again.

The people who know most about what it is like to drive an F1 car are obviously the drivers themselves, so it’s always interesting to hear their take on situations that arise in the sport.

In fact, since the Hamilton incident at the weekend I’ve been looking forward to reading David Coulthard’s next ITV column which should touch on the subject - and of course Mark Webber’s column for the BBC.  The good thing with either of these drivers is that they usually say exactly what needs to be said with no pussyfooting around being overly politically correct.

I think I may be in a minority of 1 on this!

There’s no hiding the fact that I don’t really like Lewis Hamilton, but that doesn’t really enter into the equation as far as I’m concerned.

Having read through comments on other sites, I think the general masses are getting a few things confused here which I’ll aim to clear up.

Firstly, I’ve read a few people saying that even if Hamilton has broken any rules it doesn’t matter as Kimi later crashed out.  This is utter nonsense and I think most F1 fans would agree - if someone has broken a rule then anything else which happened either as a consequence or not doesn’t really matter.

There are no two ways about it, if Lewis Hamilton and McLaren continue as they have done in the last two race weekends then the Driver’s Championship trophy will be sitting on his mantlepiece come the end of the year.

I thought his win at Silverstone a little lucky for two reasons.  Firstly, both McLaren and Ferrari had to gamble on tyres due to the timing of their pitstops - and ultimately one was going to get it horribly wrong.  Had it not rained again, I could see Kimi getting faster and faster while Lewis fell back, but as it happened the exact opposite took place.  Ferrari chose not to change Kimi’s tyres and when the rain came he simply had no grip, which allowed Lewis to waltz off into the distance whereas the other drivers were all waltzing round the track.