Lewis Hamilton believes that Sebastian Vettel's restart during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix should have been looked at by the race stewards. The Ferrari driver waited as long as he could before restarting the race ahead of Hamilton.
The eventual race winner believed that the inconsistency in Vettel's accelerating, braking and weaving was dangerous to the whole field.
"You are not allowed to start and stop, start and stop.
“You’re not allowed to fake the guy behind. If there was not that rule, that’s what you’d do because eventually you’d catch them sleeping.
“In Australia he accelerated and braked and I nearly went into the back of him and (in Baku) he did it four times and I need to speak to Charlie, because I don’t understand.
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“I understand he passed it to the stewards but they didn’t do anything. They supposedly said everyone was doing it. But we’re the leaders and it cascades down, what the first car does everyone does the same thing.
“That now sets a precedent, and it means everyone who is leading under a safety car can start-stop, start-stop.
“I need to get it rectified when I have the briefing next because clearly they don’t care about it. And if that’s the case we will see more of it. I will expect it from him next time and I will try to prepare.”
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