HOCKENHEIM, Germany -- Lewis Hamilton said he was angry with himself in the closing stages of the wild German Grand Prix, which he likened to an F1 version of the famous Snakes and Ladders board game.
Hamilton had been running comfortably until a pit-stop for dry tyres on Lap 28 of the race, as he spun off the circuit soon afterwards and damaged his car.
He crawled into the pits for a 50-second pit-stop, which was the first of a series of wild events which relegated him down the order and out of the points when he took the chequered flag -- he was promoted to ninth post-race after penalties for Alfa Romeo's two drivers.