Lewis Hamilton Left Nurburgring With A Smile On His Face
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Jul 24, 2007
Lewis Hamilton talks a lot about turning negative energy into a positive force, which explains why he left the Nurburgring with a smile on his face. In one chaotic weekend Hamilton racked up enough negative elements to keep his energy converter churning until Christmas, including flu, 175mph qualifying crash, puncture, rain, nil point.
In nine previous races, which constituted the sum of his Formula One experience, Hamilton had not once failed to finish on the podium. The most emphatic start to a grand prix career came crashing down around his ankles in round 10, the scale of his woes as impressive as his earlier successes.
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“I wanted to race,” added Hamilton. Even when I got out of the car I asked the medical team, ’when can I use the spare car? How badly damaged is my car?’ I was wondering if I would be able to use it the next day, and what would happen.”
“So it was great to find out that I could race.”
July 23, 2007
Lewis Hamilton has no broken bones and no pain but will be staying in the Medical Centre at the Nurburgring under observation for a couple of hours to make sure that the G-forces involved in his accident did not cause him any serious damage.
July 21, 2007
And after visiting Lewis in the medical centre, Dennis told Louise Goodman: “He has no injuries, no broken bones.
They are just keeping him for a couple of hours’ observation, maybe here or maybe they will take him to hospital as a precaution.
At the moment he has no injuries.”
Regarding the cause of the accident, Dennis said: “It was nothing to do with Lewis, we had a gun failure. The right-front wheel wasn’t tight, we know that now as we discovered it afterwards.”
July 21, 2007
“We had a problem with the wheel gun - we knew that.”
The championship leader careered across a gravel trap in the final 15-minute qualifying session after his front-right suspension failed.
That caused a puncture and he lost control at around 170mph.
Hamilton was clearly shaken and he fell to the ground as he climbed from his car.
Championship leader Lewis Hamilton crashed heavily during qualifying Saturday for Sunday’s Formula One European Grand Prix and was taken away in an ambulance after the high-speed crash.
Hamilton was travelling at around 250kph when he crashed into a tyre wall at the Schumacher-S curve in the final qualifying session at the Nuerburgring.
Lewis Hamilton was unhurt despite being taken away from the Nurburgring on a stretcher after a crash during qualifying for the European Grand Prix.
The Briton, 22, went into the tyre wall at the ‘Schumacher S’ bend and struggled to get out of his McLaren before medical assistance arrived.
Hamilton’s McLaren hurtled into a tyre barrier at the Nurburgring circuit in Germany after a front-right suspension failure led to a puncture.
The 22-year-old Briton then careered across a gravel trap before burying the nose of his car into the tyres.
The incident occurred with just over five minutes remaining of the final 15-minute qualifying session, with Hamilton on a hot lap.
Lewis Hamilton had a sizeable accident in the final minutes of qualifying for the European Grand Prix when his McLaren suffered a tyre or wheel failure on the right front at the high-speed Turn 8. The World Championship leader was going for pole when the crash occurred and had set the fastest time in the first sector.
