Lewis Hamilton admits he soon calmed down about Ferrari’s request to review Sebastian Vettel’s penalty in Canada upon hearing their ‘evidence’.
The fallout from the controversial incident in Montreal rumbled on to Paul Ricard as the Italian team tried their avenue of last resort to get the race-deciding penalty rescinded.
Ferrari’s case was quickly thrown out by the same stewards from two weeks ago, however, and it later emerged that their “overwhelming” new evidence was anything but.
“It was definitely odd coming here when I heard that Ferrari was spending time focusing on something from the past,” he said on Saturday.
“Naturally for me with my team I would be having them focus mostly on trying to improve the car.
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“But then we came here and I think when I arrived in the morning I heard it was Karun Chandhok’s analysis video that was the new evidence. I was pretty relaxed after that and just put it behind me.”
Hamilton went on to extend his record number of poles in F1 to 86 in qualifying for the French Grand Prix, 60 of which have now come at Mercedes.