Lewis Hamilton insisted he has “moved on” after Monaco, as reporters pressed hard about the strategy blunder that cost him a deserved victory.<\/p>\n
The world champion has said little in the two weeks since that ill-fated extra pitstop, and it is believed the only contact he had with Mercedes was a single email.<\/p>\n
“I’m really not going back to Monaco.\u00a0 I couldn’t care less about it.\u00a0 I’m literally moving on,” Hamilton said in Canada when asked by massed ranks of reporters about the incident.<\/p>\n
Despite the journalists several attempts, the Briton would not budge, even to comment on his brief post-chequer stoppage at the ‘Portier’ corner and whether it was a nod to the crash in 1988 that similarly cost hero Ayrton Senna a sure win.<\/p>\n
“There is no answer to it (that question),” Hamilton insisted.<\/p>\n
He did, however, deny suggestions the badly bungled race strategy had dented the trust and confidence between driver and team.<\/p>\n
“No,” the championship leader said, “I have full trust and confidence in the team.”<\/p>\n
One reporter even tried to provoke a response from Hamilton by suggesting Monaco might have been a lesson to him in not interfering on the radio when strategists are plotting the best strategy.<\/p>\n
“Okey dokey,” he sighed.<\/p>\n
“I’ll keep doing what I’m doing because that’s done pretty good for me up until now.”<\/p>\n
Also playing down the Monaco gaffe in Canada was Fernando Alonso, who thinks Mercedes will eventually look back on it and “smile”.<\/p>\n
“I watched the recording of the last race and apparently they had a simple misunderstanding,” he said.<\/p>\n
“They had to make a decision in a very short time and the interaction between the driver and the team at that moment was maybe not the best.<\/p>\n
“But they have a great advantage in the championship so this mistake will not affect the situation.\u00a0 When they win the title I think they will remember the race in Monaco with a smile,” Alonso predicted.<\/p>\n
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