{"id":4536,"date":"2010-04-17T00:07:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2010-04-16T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T02:52:11","slug":"hamilton-defiant-after-criticism-in-drivers-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-defiant-after-criticism-in-drivers-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton defiant after criticism in drivers&#8217; briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lewis Hamilton and his McLaren boss sounded defiant after the 25-year-old was chided by his fellow drivers on Friday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of his weaving in front of Vitaly Petrov&#8217;s Renault in Malaysia two weeks ago, some of Hamilton&#8217;s rivals rallied to make clear their view that he should have received an actual penalty rather than a mere warning.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers confronted Briton during a meeting late on Friday, and are believed to have pushed FIA race director Charlie Whiting to impose drive-through penalties for similar driving infractions in the future.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamilton told British newspapers that he did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My feeling is that if you are defending into a corner and you weave more than once, that is illegal, but I am not aware that trying to break the tow was illegal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also hinted that he felt his opponents had fixated on the Petrov incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe they should raise Mark Webber&#8217;s incident in Melbourne.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t raise that,&#8221; said Hamilton, referring to when the Australian driver drove into the back of his McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh defended Hamilton, insisting that the 2008 world champion is &#8220;entirely safe&#8221; despite racing &#8220;passionately&#8221;, but new GPDA chairman Nick Heidfeld insists that weaving on straights should not be condoned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it was dangerous in this case, but it can be in some circumstances,&#8221; said the German.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton and his McLaren boss sounded defiant after the 25-year-old was chided by his fellow drivers on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[810,1275,1270,1221,5262,5300,5261,5340,566,154,491,5284,98,1239,5368,1193,415],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4537,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}