{"id":291862,"date":"2023-10-24T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=291862"},"modified":"2023-10-24T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:54:07","slug":"lewis-hamilton-exposed-for-furious-reaction-as-fia-steward-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/racing\/f1\/lewis-hamilton-exposed-for-furious-reaction-as-fia-steward-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton exposed for furious reaction as FIA steward speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FIA chairman of the stewards Tim Mayer has revealed he was once on the receiving end of Lewis Hamilton’s wrath in a post-race meeting – although the race official admitted he was in the wrong. Race stewards have gotten busier and busier over the years with post-race meetings taking place on a regular basis with drivers.<\/p>\n

Now in his 17th year in F1, Hamilton has been in the stewards room more than most mainly due to his longevity in the sport. Details of those meetings are usually kept under wraps by all parties involved, but Mayer has given an insight into how they can sometimes go wrong.<\/p>\n

The former race steward admitted on the F1 Nation podcast that his “biggest mistake” came at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix when Hamilton and Nico Rosberg famously crashed out. Inevitably, both drivers were summoned to the stewards’ room where Mayer was waiting to speak to both of them.<\/p>\n

But he felt he had put his foot in his mouth during the meeting, which ended up infuriating Hamilton. Mayer added: \u201cBoth drivers were out. We bring them in afterward. And we decide no further action in the end.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut Lewis says to me, \u2018Well, what was I supposed to do?\u2019 As a steward, somebody who\u2019s never driven an F1 car, I started to tell him what I thought he ought to have done.<\/p>\n

“That wasn\u2019t respectful of me, he got up, he was a bit mad and he slammed the door and walked out. Poor Ron Meadows, his team manager, went absolutely white in the face and said, \u2018Oh, I\u2019ll get him back to apologise\u2019.<\/p>\n

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