Lewis Hamilton was hampered by Kevin Magnussen's illegal defending throughout the Miami Sprint race and, afterwards, the F1 stewards investigated the Haas driver's actions
Miami Grand Prix stewards have asked the FIA to change Formula 1 rules after they were left powerless to punish Kevin Magnussen 's alleged 'unsportsmanlike conduct'.
He did it so that his Haas team-mate Nico Hulkenberg could build up a significant gap ahead. And it worked - while Magnussen picked up several time penalties, the German was able to secure seventh spot unchallenged, and the two points that came with that result. "I started fighting with him like crazy and I had to create the gap like I did in Jeddah, using these stupid tactics which I don't like doing. But at the end of the day I did my job, I'm a team player and Nico scored his points because I got that gap for him. Lewis and Tsunoda couldn't catch him. It's not the way I like to go racing at all, but it's what I had to do today.
Magnussen told them in a hearing that he "thought he was entitled to race Hamilton in the manner that he did". The Haas driver also expressed his belief that he was entitled to sacrifice his own race in the way that he did to the benefit of his team-mate Hulkenberg.
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