GPI 2016 Spanish Grand Prix Edition | Page 102

TALKING POINT LEWIS TOOK THE BLAME A lthough Niki Lauda was quick to blame Lewis Hamilton for the collision with Nico Rosberg on the first lap of the Spanish Grand Priix, not everyone is pointing the finger of blame at the Briton after Mercedes’ catastrophic double-DNF in Barcelona. That is despite the fact that even the reigning triple world champion’s boss, team chairman Niki Lauda, is adamant the Briton spiralling out of control and collecting championship leader Nico Rosberg was all Hamilton’s fault. Rosberg, however, is still not happy. “I feel no solace that Niki Lauda blamed him ” said the German. “I have lost a win an But as far as Lauda is prepared to put the matte looked us in the eye and too “He apologised. He to That’s fine with me,” Lauda t “Toto sees it differently, thinker. If someone says ‘G someone makes a mistake a me is history,” said Lauda. Lauda may be ‘black an