'Wily' Hamilton does the same as Verstappen - Horner - The Racehttps://the-race.com/formula-1/wily-hamilton-does-the-same-as-verstappen-horner/Mercedes unsurprisingly disagreed with this interpretation. The team’s trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said: “Looking at the video in-car, you can see why Lewis had a problem with it, because Max was right in the middle of the track that’s almost exactly three cars wide.
“He had no way of knowing whether Max was going to go left or right, Max stayed very central and braked hard, and Lewis was at around 69 bar of brake pressure.
“The car was on the braking limit trying to not go into the back of Max, all he could do to stop it.
“It’s just not where anybody would expect someone to let them go by. And if you’re letting your team-mate by, we all know how you’d do that.
“If you’re giving up a position, it shouldn’t be materially different, you have to relinquish the position.”