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There is a direct line from the final laps of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2021 - when officials made errors that changed the course of the world championship fight between Verstappen and Hamilton - to these events, as the final two red flags were thrown to try to ensure the grand prix would finish under racing conditions. Do I feel comfortable here? I wouldn’t say I do,” he said. “But it’s not my choice to be here, the sport has taken the choice to be here.” Last year, there were things I told them. I said the issues that are with the car," said the 38-year-old Briton. With the words “We Stand Together” ribboning around it, the lid features the reworked Progress Flag designed by British intersex artist Valentino Vecchietti, with a yellow triangle and a purple circle added. In Qatar, homosexuality is illegal: Men can be jailed for years for sodomy. The law even has provisions for “inducing” a man to commit “immoral” acts.
Wearing a blue suit, the record 103-time grand prix winner received Brazil’s legislative medal of merit and a diploma, and he made a speech thanking his fans and dedicating the honour to Senna. Sainz benefited, promoted to fourth place by Russell's problem and slowly pushing up to challenge Hamilton and Alonso but unable to pass them.But they are limited in the extent of modifications they can make this year, and substantial philosophical changes will have to wait until next year. 'We are not going to throw in white towel' - Wolff The Dutchman made his second poor start of the weekend. He lost places to both Mercedes at the first start, and was challenged by third-placed Alonso at the second, but once up and running was in a class of his own. A more mature, complete driver now, Verstappen’s youthful excesses have been largely curbed and his judgement is more circumspect although he remains an aggressively confrontational driver, uncompromising with his elbows as Hamilton discovered this season.
On the contrary, we just need to really dig deep and deeper than we have ever done and provide both drivers with a car they are able to fight with. The first-corner crash led the FIA to make a decision that a lap had taken place but that most of the events during it had had no effect, other than the crash between the Alpines.The timing of the incident meant that, according to the rules, there would be two racing laps after the restart. We have won eight constructors' championships and six drivers' championships with him and that relationship holds. Other than that, just really good tyre management. I generally enjoyed it. It's not the most physical of races, being that you can't push all the way, you're saving, you're doing 200 or 300 metres of lifting and coast to keep the car cool and stop it from failing." Wolff: Brilliant drive from Hamilton Just days before the win, Hamilton condemned Saudi Arabia’s anti-LGBT+ laws and said he wore Pride colours on his helmet to “spark the conversation” on LGBT+ rights in homophobic countries.
Hamilton, who was talking to the latest edition of BBC Radio 5 Live's Chequered Flag podcast, said he still believed Mercedes could return to the front at some point. Ironically, that desire led to the final, bizarre and confusing climax, and a race that instead ended under a safety car. Lewis Hamilton was fined after taking off his seatbelt to accept a Brazilian flag on his in-lap after his momentous victory. Photograph: Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images
Vecchietti, a columnist who founded Intersex Equality Rights UK, thanked Hamilton for wearing their flag design on his crash helmet. Alpine drivers Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon were the other big losers from the official decisions - they took the penultimate restart fifth and 10th but crashed into each other and retired at the second corner. And as so many times in the past, he was able to manage his tyres with expertise as Alonso did the same and the two circulated close together to the flag. In a season already marked by drama this finale simply could not have been scripted nor will there be consensus on how it played out. Inevitably it ended in protests to the stewards grinding on long after the trophies had been awarded and the fans departed. The stewards rejected the protests but more wrangling may lie ahead with Mercedes having lodged an intention to appeal against the decision, and with the right to take their case to the court of arbitration for sport.
They are doing everything they can with the car but if the thing just slides through the corners and they have to correct, you just almost feel for them."
His reaction and that of his Red Bull team was one of unbridled joy while Hamilton and Mercedes were left disconsolate and convinced the win that had been in their hands had been unfairly snatched from their grasp, leaving the greatest prize in motor racing potentially in the laps of the lawyers. Verstappen, who had made a bad start and dropped behind the Mercedes cars, ran third for a while but once in front was in total control. It was the second successive event where Hamilton has shown strong pace, after he pushed Verstappen close for the win in Austin, only to be disqualified for excessive plank wear. I've driven so many cars in my life. I know what a car needs. I know what a car doesn't need. I think it's really about accountability." Hamilton goes into the meeting, the first to be held in Saudi Arabia, in a tightly fought battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen who leads the championship by eight points with two rounds remaining. Yet much as the world champion is focused on this nail-biting finish, Hamilton, as he has been in the past, was also insistent that he would play a part in trying to make a difference.
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