From this race…

Hamilton, Lewis

Hamilton, annoyed at not overtaking Vettel in Spain, has been identifying the people who “blocked” him.
With Vettel beating Hamilton by less than a second in Spain, Hamilton has more than enough reason to be disappointed. However, as usual the blame is not with Hamilton, it was first Schumacher and then the Toro Rossos of blocking his pursuit of the charging Vettel.

Schumacher was less than impressed after Hamilton commented “I won’t speak to him about it – I don’t want to waste my time or my breath.” To which Schumacher responded,
“I don’t recall this, and I think it wouldn’t make sense.” Mostly in your old age you don’t remember allot and also allot does not make much sense, but in this case Schumacher is right, it does not make sense.

But not content with the Schumacher repost, Hamilton went after Team Toro Rosso remarking that they too had blocked him: “That kind of thing shouldn’t happen because they are not supposed to be a sister team, are they?” Hamilton said. “Definitely in the last race there was some of that … all of a sudden moving in my way, which caused a bigger gap, the gap that I closed to Sebastian and I then lost. They let him past and held me up for the next couple of corners.

“If that continues to happen, some penalties should probably be handed out. I won’t complain but I have mentioned it to my team so it is for them to approach the FIA to make sure the stewards are aware of it.”

Schumacher had a replacement nose on his scheduled stop on lap 13.

Di Resta made it past but was punished with a drive through penalty for a causing an avoidable accident.

Hamilton was penalized with a drive through penalty for causing an avoidable accident but after the race the British driver firmly put the blame with Massa accusing him of turning in early.

The safety car was brought out to clean up the damage with it returning to the pits on lap 38.

Sutil limped on through the lap, but became the catalyst for the nest accident.

Hamilton, not wanting a further collision reacted by slowing down to see what Sutil would do, however this drop in speed caused Alguersuari to run into the back of him and in turn Petrov to run into Alguersuari. Both Alguersuari and Petrov made heavy contact with the barriers on the outside of the turn and the following cars picked their way through the wreckage.

The leaders had been very lucky not to crash in this incident but both Petrov and Alguersuari were instantly out.

The safety car was deployed to clean up the mess but it soon became apparent the Petrov had not exited his car. With a lack of sensation in his legs the track medics needed to extract the driver in his seat and the race was red flagged on lap 72 to enable this to happen safely.

The drivers return to the grid where Hamilton had repair work on his car. The race resumed on lap 73 after one additional lap behind the safety car.

Maldonado came of worse and ended up in the barriers at st Devote.

The stewards did not take kindly to this maneuver, much like the one he did on Massa and handed him a 20 second penalty. This ultimately did not affect Lewis’ position in the final race results.

“You know what? Out of six races, I’ve been to the stewards five times,” a furious Hamilton told the BBC. .

He continued, “It’s a joke. It’s an absolute frickin’ joke. You can’t overtake here and very rarely do you get an opportunity. I went up the inside of Massa and the guy turned so early and just turned into me, so I tried to go over the kerb to avoid him and we’re stuck together, so it was just…and of course I get the penalty, which is usual.

“He held me up in qualifying and I got the penalty. He turned into me (today) in and I got the penalty. Then I went up the inside of Maldonado, and you can see on the screen that he turned a good car length too early to stop me from overtaking him, and crashed into me. It’s just ridiculous, man. These drivers are frickin’ ridiculous, it’s stupid.”

However, Hamilton did not stop there, he continue to remark (part jokingly) why he received the attention from the stewards:

“Maybe it’s because I’m black – that’s what Ali G says. I don’t know. It’s not affecting my confidence as a driver. The sport is… people want to see motor racing, want to see overtaking, and you get done for trying to overtake, you get done for trying to put on a show, you get done for trying to make a move.

“Fair play – if I really feel that I’ve just gone too late and hit someone, I’ll put my hand up and realise, okay, I really have caused and incident and I’ve been the stupid one. But it’s not the case, but yeah.

“I’ll just keep my mouth shut and try and enjoy the rest of the season, which I’m sure is going to be an interesting one, but as you can see he (Vettel) is walking away with it. It’s never too late but it’s not looking great, I must say.”

The result was that he was dropped to 9th place on the grid.

Perez, who was performing well in the Sauber, slid out of control, impacting the barriers at significant speed coming to a rest in less than 2 meters. It was clear that Perez, motionless in the cockpit, had been knocked out by the impact.

The session was rightly red flagged which left just 2 and a half minutes on the clock. This effectively ended qualifying with most other drivers unable to improve their times.

Perez was essentially unhurt but was taken to hospital where he spent a number of nights recovering from the concussion.

Luizzi failed to make it out onto the track for the remainder of the day.

Mercedes had their work cut out, but they managed to get the car ready for qualifying.

Schumacher was less than impressed after Hamilton commented “I won’t speak to him about it – I don’t want to waste my time or my breath.” To which Schumacher responded,
“I don’t recall this, and I think it wouldn’t make sense.” Mostly in your old age you don’t remember allot and also allot does not make much sense, but in this case Schumacher is right, it does not make sense.

But not content with the Schumacher repost, Hamilton went after Team Toro Rosso remarking that they too had blocked him: “That kind of thing shouldn’t happen because they are not supposed to be a sister team, are they?” Hamilton said. “Definitely in the last race there was some of that … all of a sudden moving in my way, which caused a bigger gap, the gap that I closed to Sebastian and I then lost. They let him past and held me up for the next couple of corners.

“If that continues to happen, some penalties should probably be handed out. I won’t complain but I have mentioned it to my team so it is for them to approach the FIA to make sure the stewards are aware of it.”

It became clear in Spain that in order to beat someone on stops in 2011, you need to come in first rather than second so ultimately it was a poor tactical plan from Ferrari.

Looking toward the Monaco GP, “That is why we have changed our procedures this weekend,” he said. “I don’t know if mechanics were putting their hands in their pockets at the wrong time, or it was someone picking a tyre up. But anyway, we have changed our procedures this weekend to be less transparent.”