TREMAYNE: ‘He brake tested me!’ – The ‘crazy’ story of Vettel vs Hamilton at Baku 2017


If there was one thing on which pretty much all of the drivers in the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix were agreed upon, it was that it had been a “crazy” race.
That was the word used time and again, after a controversial incident in which Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel had fallen out, Daniel Ricciardo and Valtteri Bottas had driven back-to-front races to first and second places respectively, and new boy Lance Stroll had finished third, thus becoming F1’s youngest-ever podium star.

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