Robert Kubica celebrates first win after Lewis Hamilton was in costly pit stop collision that inadvertently took out Kimi Raikkonen. At the start of the race Lewis sprinted away from pole position, leaving Robert to put the squeeze on Kimi as the Finn sought the inside line into the first corner.

It’s said that the pit lane opened on lap 19, and all the leaders headed in. And that’s where it all so dramatically went wrong for Lewis. His stop was longer than Kimi and Robert and it’s said that as he rejoined he suddenly found himself confronted with the Ferrari and the BMW sitting stationary at the end of the pit lane, restrained by the red exit light. Apparently Lewis could not stop in time and struck the back of the Ferrari, removing its rear wing and damaging his front one. So for Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton, it was game over. Lewis was then summoned to the stewards and was given a 10-grid place penalty for the upcoming French GP.

Lewis said that “I was focusing on making sure I didn’t lose the lead and obviously two cars jumped me. It looked like they were battling in the pit lane so I was trying to be cautious. I went to look at the red light and I looked back and they’d stopped and I tried to avoid them. It was an unfortunate situation where you had two cars side by side. If they’d been in a line I would have seen it a bit faster. But that’s what happens sometimes. It happened so quickly. I was doing 80 kmh and they were at a standstill. It was such a short period of time. I’m not feeling that bad. I’m gutted for the team, I feel gutted for and I’ve apologised to Kimi, but also for my team because we were the best this weekend. No one could touch us, and something as small as that … it’s not like I crashed into them all while I was racing because then I’d feel really bad.”

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