This risks hurting the seven-time world champion.
14th, Lewis Hamilton saw the blue flag waved in front of him because .. Max Verstappen, the leader, came back to him.
The Briton complies and lets the reigning world champion pass on the start/finish straight.
The images are painful for Toto Wolff, the boss of the German team.
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But it's a symbolic image because the two drivers were fighting for victory here last year and this season the two cars are racing in different categories.
Even if George Russell, teammate of Lewis Hamilton, ranks fifth.
The season promises to be long for Lewis Hamilton.
“The car doesn't seem to want to go fast.
It's a frustrating situation but that's the way it is,”
he said before the Grand Prix, prophetically.