Bring Me the Head of Lewis Hamilton: The Hounding of F1’s Superstar

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Published: June 13, 2011

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You've seen the old horror movies that end with a mob of villagers heading up to the evil count's castle bearing flaming torches and pitchforks, intent on destroying the vile undead creature.

Nowadays after every F1 race, there is a similar mob seeking the head of Lewis Hamilton.

Mouths foam at the mention of his name, and lips twist into ugly snarls. Punish him, they bellow, teach him a lesson, ban him. Why not sharpen a stake and do the job properly?

The 2011 Canadian F1 Grand Prix on June 12 was a wet race featuring numerous mishaps, including a frightening incident in which race marshals were close to being struck by cars.

There were two notable incidents involving Hamilton. The first was a minor contact between Hamilton and Mark Webber, which the race stewards took one look at and deemed not worthy of investigation.

The second incident occurred when Hamilton attempted to overtake his McLaren teammate Jenson Button; there was a collision resulting in Hamilton being knocked out of the race, although Button went on to score an outstanding win. About that contact we were privileged to receive pearls of wisdom from veteran former champion Nikki Lauda. As reported in The Age, Lauda had this to say:

"What Hamilton did there goes beyond all boundaries. He is completely mad. If the FIA does not punish him, I do not understand the world any more."

It was not reported that Lauda was brandishing a pitchfork, one suspects not.

The race stewards investigated the Hamilton/Button collision and came to a very different conclusion to that reached by Lauda and many others. Here are their words as reported in Autosport:

"The Stewards have concluded that it was reasonable for Hamilton to believe that Button would have seen him and that he could have made the passing maneuver. Further, the Stewards have concluded that it is reasonable to believe that Button was not aware of Ha...
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