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Update: As reported by Motorsport.com:

“The footage clearly captures Vettel correcting an oversteer moment as he rejoins the track – which is shown by a sharp steering wheel movement to the right by the German.

Shortly after that, however, Vettel has dispatched the oversteer and begins steering to the left to follow the direction of the circuit – suggesting he is now under control.

But a split moment later, rather than keeping to the left, Vettel is shown to release the steering wheel which allows his car to drift to the right – cutting off the route that Hamilton would have taken had he had clear space.

The movement to straighten the wheel, which put Vettel into the path of Hamilton, is believed to be key to the unanimous decision by the stewards to punish Vettel.

A further reason the stewards established was through the use of an extra CCTV camera view of the incident, which was not broadcast on the international feed, showing Vettel’s head looking in the mirrors at where Hamilton was during these moments when he was releasing the wheel to the right.

Onboard footage of the Vettel incident also shows his head looking towards the mirrors in the moment when he is drifting out, suggesting he knew where Hamilton was.

Had Vettel kept his car tight to the left once he had regained control, then there was likely enough room to have allowed Hamilton through on the right, in which case the matter would almost certainly not have been investigated.

The fact that telemetry data showed Hamilton had to brake to avoid the collision with Vettel showed how the Mercedes driver was caught out by his rival’s actions.”

I wrote at the beginning of the season that Vettel is an #overrated driver. He again showed why he’s a petulant child who cannot and won’t take responsibility for his own fuck ups by doing what he did at the 2019 Canadian Grand Prix. It was clear from the on-board that he turned his steering wheel to the right as he was exiting the grass at turn 4 to stop Lewis Hamilton from passing him. At any cost. Even if it caused a wreck. Remember Singapore when he managed to wreck himself, Raikkonen and Verstappen at the same time?

That Hamilton had to back off to avoid that collision is quod durum that Vettel impeded the former. HIs rant about how the race was “stolen” is non-sense. And to further illustrate that he’s a petulant child / bad sport, he had the audacity to move the P1 sign in front of Hamiiton’s car and replace it with the P2 sign meant for his car – which, incidentally, never made it to the “parking lot” for the top 3 finishers because he couldn’t be bother. Because he ran off to the Ferrari hospitality building to complain to Binotto about the “unfair” race. Because he didn’t want to do the interview with Martin Brundle. Because he doesn’t like how the rules played out for him. Because he cocked up and nearly caused a crash. Because he was penalized 5 seconds for that.

Grow the fuck up.