Not Hamilton's Fault That Mercedes Car Is 'Too Tricky' Says Allison

"He’d found that the changes he’d made had made the car more understeery, they’d made it easier for the car to lock up under the braking and he was just pinching those front brakes in a way that was causing him difficulties."

"So he would hold his hand up and say 'my mistake, my error.' I think we would be a little more rounded and say we should have actually encouraged more strongly that he was pursuing a programme a bit more like George's.

So that’s our mistake and we should frankly be making a car that is just not so tricky as the one we’ve got at the moment which is causing the drivers to make very uncharacteristic errors."

"We have two of the best drivers in the world and locking up at the end of a straight into a hairpin is not in Lewis’s recipe book and it’s a consequence of the car being too tricky."