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Originally Posted by paddy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/40400301
Anyone blaming Hamilton or particularly abusing him by calling him a moron should read this. Constant throttle, no braking and no different from previous restart. Vettel should have been disqualified in my view. Not for the first contact, but to deliberately pull alongside and then drive into another car under safety car is dangerous and totally unprofessional. It's one of the most blatant breaches of safety car regs I can remember.
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Constant throttle only matches what the TV telemetry showed if you consider no throttle mid corner and off the corner to be constant.
Having said that, obviously the stewards have access to better, or request the teams own data.
I would say comparing it to earlier restarts is a bit dubious. Hamilton may well have done the same thing, but where was Vettel in those restarts, was he further back could he see what Hamilton did.
Also even if he had seen Hamilton do that previously, who is to say that he'd do the same thing again. After all Hamilton being in front will be seeking to get an advantage and could change the way he was going to restart.