BARCELONA REVIEW BY BEN STEVENS
On a related note, after years of animosity
between championship contenders, the dynamic
between Vettel and Hamilton makes for an abrupt
about-face. The way Hamilton quickly let Vettel’s
mid-race love-tap go would have never happened had
the offending driver been Nico Rosberg.
Even as the two remained in disagreement over
its circumstances there was no hint of tension as
they sat next to each other in the press conference.
If anything, Hamilton seems to relish it – of course
whether it lasts with someone as prickly as him
remains to be seen.
A few quick hits:
• It’s always a good time watching guilty drivers
do the walk of shame back to the paddock,
with Sunday being Stoffel Vandoorne’s turn.
If there’s one improvement I’d recommend to
Liberty Media, it would be to hire the “shame”
woman from Game of Thrones to walk behind
them.
• Spotted in the paddock on Sunday: Pastor
Maldonado, and a giant dancing robot – both
are the stuff of nightmares.
• Sunday motorhome lunch review comes courtesy
of Red Bull, where I had a rotini pasta with
chicken. I give it a 6.5 out of 10. Also I was very
disappointed to find they didn’t stock Coca Cola.
• The “crying kid” a.k.a. “Thomas” is already an
F1 celebrity – no joke, people were stopping him
for photos in the paddock. Expect an ice-cream
commercial with him and Kimi Raikkonen in
the next four weeks.