SPIELBERG BEI KNITTELFELD (Austria), July 10 — Mercedes’ seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Saturday he had been stunned to hear spectators cheered when he...
SPIELBERG BEI KNITTELFELD , July 10 — Mercedes’ seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Saturday he had been stunned to hear spectators cheered when he crashed hard in qualifying for the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix.He started ninth and finished eighth in a 23-lap race won by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to the delight of the Dutch driver’s orange army of fans at the team’s home race.
Verstappen had been on the receiving end of boos and the wrong sort of cheers at Silverstone, Hamilton’s home race, last weekend. Red Bull’s championship leader was booed when he qualified on the front row and cheered when he slowed in the race, a puncture and car damage dropping him from the lead to seventh.
“I was going through a bunch of stuff in the crash, but to hear it afterwards you know...I don’t agree with any of that, no matter what,” said Hamilton of the cheers after he hit the tyre barrier at speed.“It’s just mind-blowing that people would do that, knowing how dangerous our sport is. I’m grateful that I wasn’t in hospital and I wasn’t heavily injured,” added the sport’s most successful driver.
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