Nico Rosberg’s Apology to Lewis Hamilton Rings Hollow

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Published: August 30, 2014

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It may seem like the Nico Rosberg-Lewis Hamilton incident from last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix has already been dragging on forever, but the fallout will not fully be felt until the end of the season, and possibly beyond.

Rosberg issued an apology on Friday after meeting with Hamilton and Mercedes executive directors Paddy Lowe and Toto Wolff. But an apology does not give Hamilton or the team back the 25 points they potentially lost due to Rosberg's mistake, especially when the apology seems forced.

If Rosberg actually wanted to apologize for puncturing Hamilton's tyre, he did not need to wait nearly a week to do so. Whether it is true or not, it looks like he only apologized because the team told him to.

Of course, there is a difference between making a mistake and deliberately crashing into someone and, despite Hamilton's comments to the contrary, I believe Rosberg is guilty only of the former.



He saw a small opening and went for it, perhaps thinking Hamilton would give him more space than he did (remember, both drivers made their decisions in a few tenths of a second at 200 kilometres per hour, not after watching a slow-motion, HD replay of the incident 20 times from a variety of angles).

Hamilton also released a statement following the Friday meeting, saying that, "Nico and I accept that we have both made mistakes," hinting that perhaps he is not entirely blameless. 

BBC commentator David Coulthard—who has raced in about 247 more grands prix than me and most of the people reading this, combined—wrote in his column for The Telegraph: "Even if the contact was clumsy more than anything else, there was an element of stubbornness to what Nico did. ... Of course, this collision will make some review what happened in Monaco qualifying, but for now I do not think Nico showed any malice in what he did."

After the race in Spa, Hamilton told re...
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