El jefe de McLaren Ron Dennis cree que no se debe culpar a Hamilton por su salida de pista en el GP China. Aunque Hamilton arruinó sus opciones de ser campeón del mundo en China por no cuidar sus neumáticos, Dennis piensa que son cosas que pasan en las carreras."Es excesivo querer culpar a alguién sobre lo ocurrido hoy", dijo Dennis. "Esta siendo una temporada muy competida entre nuestros pilotos y así volverá a ser en el próximo gran premio"
"Fuimos muy agresivos para mantener la ventaja. Abrió (Hamilton) hueco con Kimi fácilmente castigando más sus neumáticos. Pero Fernando y los dos Ferraris pararon más tarde que Hamilton."
"No creo que ni el equipo ni Lewis hayamos hecho nada mal. Pero la pista estaba bastante más seca que la entrada al pitlane. Ésta ha sido la diferencia".
Dennis continuó, "Es fácil decir que podríamos haber parado antes, pero ¿habría cambiado algo?". El año pasado Alonso perdió la carrera al poner neumáticos intermedios cuando debió seguir con los usados.
"Todos los equipos punteros hemos intentado evitar esa situación pasando directamente de neumáticos de lluvia a neumáticos de seco"
Dennis indicó que la decisión de retrasar la entrada de Hamilton no dependía de lo que hiciera Ferrari sino de lo que Fernando Alonso fuera a hacer.
"El problema fue la lluvia y el peor estado de las ruedas de Hamilton. Pero a nosotros no nos preocupaba Kimi. Nosotros no competíamos contra Kimi, nosotros competíamos contra Fernando".
"La victoria de Kimi y el segundo puesto de Lewis era idóneo. Pero al final no sucedió así".
Fuente: Autosport.com
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Dennis: no one to blame for Hamilton exit
McLaren boss Ron Dennis thinks that no one should take any blame for Lewis Hamilton's exit from the Chinese Grand Prix.
Although Hamilton's chances of winning the championship in Shanghai were wrecked when he ran off the track on badly worn wet tyres on the entry to the pits, Dennis thinks it was just a simple consequence of racing.
"It's too extreme to say anyone made a mistake in this," said Dennis. "It's been a very competitive season between our drivers and it will go on for another Grand Prix.
"We were very keen to maintain the lead. It was so comfortable for him (Hamilton) to pull out the gap on Kimi that he gave the tyres a little bit more of a hard time. But Fernando and the two Ferraris stopped after him.
"I don't think we did anything dramatically wrong and neither did Lewis. But the circuit was considerably drier than the pitlane entrance. That's what made the difference."
He added: "It was easy to say, we could have stopped earlier, but would it have made a difference? Everybody had the same thought. Last year with Alonso, when he went onto intermediates, they immediately grained and he was extremely slow.
"All the top teams, Ferrari and ourselves, were trying to get through the rain and straight onto a dry tyre."
Interestingly, Dennis said that the team's focus in making a decision about delaying Hamilton's change of tyres was not in what Ferrari were up to, but what Fernando Alonso was doing.
"The problem was rain and his (Hamilton's) tyres were in the worst condition. But we weren't at all fazed about Kimi. We weren't racing Kimi, we were basically racing Fernando.
"Kimi winning and Lewis coming second was adequate. It just didn't quite work out that way."
