Damon Hill urges Dutch fans to stop booing Lewis Hamilton

Damon Hill urges Dutch fans to stop booing Lewis Hamilton

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The intense rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen has escalated dramatically in the past month, after the incident at British GP. Several accusations were hurled by both parties, as they held the other accountable for the crash, which ended Max Verstappen’s race.

Following their crash at Silverstone, Lewis Hamilton was booed heavily at the Hungarian GP by the Verstappen’s loyal fan base, the Orange Army. While giving his post-race thoughts, the seven-time F1 champion was welcomed with several upset fans, who were not happy with the crash last month.

Damon Hill, former F1 driver has urged the Dutch fans to be kind to Lewis Hamilton, and insisted that the Briton was just doing what he loved to do.

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“Dutch fans, be nice to Lewis, will you?” Hill said as quoted by PlanetF1. “Because he’s doing what he’s good at, and it’s going be fun. It’s going to be good. Because we’ve got a lot of listeners in Holland, who listen to us. They’re good sports, the Dutch. It’ll be great to have a Dutch Grand Prix, the first ever Dutch Grand Prix for how many years,” he added.

“I don’t think the booing was malicious,” opines F1 expert

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F1 Nation host, Tom Clarkson believed that the booing Lewis Hamilton received at Hungarian GP was not malicious, and it was just a matter of bad positioning.

Clarkson stated that Hamilton’s post match interview was just in front of the thousands of Dutch fans, who were unhappy with the incident at British GP.

“I don’t think it was malicious, it was just that directly in front of parc ferme and the podium was the orange army,” Clarkson said.

“They had their own grandstand, and it was orange. So anything they said or did were what Lewis could hear more than anything else when he was in in that bit of the pit lane. As I said, I don’t think it was malicious. I think it was just nonsense, really, and just a bit disappointing,” he added.

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