Hamilton unimpressed with penalty
Lewis Hamilton was far from impressed after receiving his second penalty in two races after being hit by a drive-through at the French Grand Prix. The McLaren driver, who was already serving a penalty after his pit lane shunt into Kimi Raikkonen in Montreal, was given the drive-through for overtaking Sebastian Vettel by cutting across a chicane.
Hamilton, who started the day in 13th, eventually had to settle for 10th at Magny-Cours, a result which has seen him slump 10 points behind championship leader Felipe Massa.
But the Briton insists he did not do anything wrong, although he admits he has no choice but to accept the penalty.
"I feel cool. It's all good. Racing is racing. I'm still here, there's nothing you can do to get me out of it," he said.
"I don't particularly feel I did anything. I went into the corner. I believe I was ahead on the outside and I couldn't turn in on the guy, otherwise we would have crashed so I took the outside line, lost the back on the marbles and went over the kerb.
"I continued because I don't believe I overtook him by going over the kerb, I actually took him before that.
"I kept pushing. There's nothing you can do that can distract me. You can keep on giving me penalties and whatever you want to do and I'll keep battling and try and come back with a result."
Hamilton has now failed to score points in his past two races but says he is happy with his efforts over the weekend.
"I did everything I needed to do, I stayed out of trouble and drove what I thought was a fair race," he added. "We just missed the points, so that's three races now without scoring points but there's still 10 races to go.
"I had quite a good start, but there were about four people abreast in front of me so I took it easy. I was able to overtake a few people in turn five and I thought I overtook reasonably fairly into turn seven.
"Going in I was ahead but I lost the back end and to correct it I corrected it and I went over the kerb which I don't particularly see as cheating, but rules are rules."
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