Yeah, the important thing to note there is that he's never intentionally caused a collision. You know you get a fair and honest game with Lewis. There was a time in his career, especially during the 2011 season where he got into scraps with Massa once too many often but that was as much down to Felipe's own suspect racecraft at the time as Lewis's. The only sporting misdemenour I can think off with Hamilton was the Australia 2009 incident when he and the McLaren sporting director told a fib about an incident involving him and Trulli in a safety car period but was caught out when the stewards reviewed the radio conversations.
As a racer though, he is impeccable. Even the Silverstone incident wasn't his fault with Max knowingly turning in on Hamilton fully aware that he was there. It's only because Max slammed into the barriers and came out off it worse that Hamilton was given a (totally unjust) penalty. If it was Lewis who had ended up in the barriers, Max would have got the penalty. At best it was a racing incident, at worse it was Max's fault.
Regardless of how immense Max's speed has been this season, his antics are not worthy of being a title winner.
Clean? I pointed out three incidents last weekend he could, probably should have been punished for alone. I've never seen a driver get away scot free for ignoring yellow flags. I've seen Villeneuve disqualified from an entire race before, for it. It's usually a slam dunk penalty, but maybe it's one rule for him and another for everyone else. Then there's Silverstone. Yes it was 100% his fault, for the reasons already explained in detail before. He's a ruthless driver not a fair one, he thinks he has a divine right to win every race, especially at home, and it's everyone else's fault when he doesn't. He was called to the stewards room to explain himself twice at the weekend, he is called before them now on a regular basis. Clean drivers never spend as much time in stewards rooms as he does. You rarely see Bottas or Perez getting grilled by the stewards, do you?
Wolff is just as capable as Horner of dishing the insults out. Ever since Monaco when the circuit suited Red Bull, the public mud slinging began and hasn't stopped since. Wolff smashed up his own headset in a rage at the weekend, because he didn't tell his own driver that he was allowed to pass Verstappen, for a change, and it's not the first time we've seen his temper tantrums recently.
Jos was a very average and uncompetitive driver on the track. But his private life is nothing to do with the sport and should not be debated here.
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