'Aero failure to blame for Lewis/Alonso shunt'Monday 7th April 2008Neither Lewis Hamilton nor Fernando Alonso were to blame for their shunt in Bahrain, rather it was the result of an aerodynamic failure.
Hamilton ran into the back of Alonso's Renault near the start of the grand prix, leading to some suggestions that the Spaniard had brake-tested his former team-mate.
Renault, who even went as far as to provide data proving that their driver was innocent, denied this.
McLaren boss Ron Dennis backed up their claims as he put the blame on Hamilton's shoulders.
"He tried to second-guess Fernando and vice-versa and damaged the car quite extensively and that was really it," Dennis said.
However, it appears he too was wrong as it wasn't Hamilton's fault either. Rather it was an aerodynamic failure on the front wing of the Brit's MP4-23.
'It subsequently emerged that the aerodynamic "bridge" connecting the two sides of the front wing across the nose of the McLaren had failed a couple of seconds before he plunged into the back of the Spaniard,' reports the Guardian.
'That gave Hamilton a fleeting rush of acceleration which carried him into his collision.'
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