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These Mercs are so far ahead of the rest it's unreal.
Rosberg cruised around for the entire race and Hamilton moved from 20th to 3rd overall; cracking drive from Bottas again though - future Ferrari driver ?
Hockenheim only half full for this! Rosberg fans not much bothered then!
Surprised at that tbh. I know they've just won a world cup, but i'd have thought that would have raised the publics appetite for sporting events.
Oh, and why didn't the safety car come out..
Lewis Hamilton was 'really concerned' for marshals as they recovered Sutil's Sauber.
Both Hamilton and Rosberg surprised after track marshals run on to the Hockenheim circuit to push away broken-down Sauber; "I think you know why," adds Lewis cryptically after Safety Car not deployed.Lewis Hamilton has admitted he feared the Hockenheim marshals might get hit by an oncoming car as they attended to Adrian Sutil’s stranded Sauber in the closing stages of Sunday’s German GP.
Both Hamilton and his race-winning Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg expressed surprise after the race that the Safety Car hadn’t been deployed to recover the stricken Sauber after Sutil spun and stalled in the middle of Hockenheim’s pitstraight.
Instead, Race Control decided to control the situation with yellow flags and, after a short delay, three marshals ran across the circuit in a brief window when the final corner was clear of cars to attend to the Sauber and push it down the inside of the straight and into an opening in the pitwall.
However, Hamilton, who was the first driver on the scene once the marshals had entered the track, revealed afterwards his concern for the men's safety..
“I was really concerned for the marshals. It was really concerning,” the Mercedes driver told reporters.
“When you come round that corner at serious speed and then there are marshals standing not far away from where you’re driving past, for me that’s the closest it’s been for a long, long time.”
Hamilton revealed that he had flashbacks to memories of watching the harrowing footage from the 1977 South African GP when Welshman Tom Pryce hit a marshal who was crossing the track with a fire extinguisher. Both men were killed in the incident.
“When I used to work at a driving school in Bedford and one day I came in and they had this video playing all the time from a race years and years ago,” Hamilton recounted. “A car stopped on the track, a marshal ran across the track and got hit by a car coming past.
“So that was the first thing I thought about and I couldn’t believe that the Safety Car hadn’t come out.”
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