Lewis Hamilton has accused young Formula One drivers of being too ‘cautious’ to race in the wet.The seven-time world champion’s condemnation came in Singapore, a week on from Malaysia, where cars were effectively parked up for 90 minutes as rain fell, a hiatus partly caused by technical complexities of controversial half-battery engines that had been reprogrammed and then suffered a glitch.But, as Hamilton argued, the delay was also a consequence of a reluctance among his younger colleagues to get on with the action.Hamilton, 41, spoke for an older generation of racers when he said: ‘I was looking forward to a wet race.’When it started raining, I was like, “Oh yeah, this is going to be fun.”‘Ultimately, I didn’t get to have that battle that I wanted to have with Max (Verstappen), which I was excited about, and Kimi (Antonelli). Lewis Hamilton has accused young F1 drivers of being too ‘cautious’ to race in the wet’But I don’t really have a feeling against the FIA (the governing body). They did the best job they could to keep us all safe. It was an unforeseen issue that came about, and they handled it in the best way.’I do think the guys running the show are more and more cautious, but, then again, the young drivers coming in are more and more cautious. Us old school drivers are like, “Let’s get racing,” and more of the youngsters are like, “Let’s not race”.’So they’re getting two different bits of information, and they are super cautious as well.’Wet weather races aren’t the same as we used to have.’I’ve had great races in the wet, at Silverstone in 2008, for example (when he won by more than a minute). Back then we had more testing and better tyres for the rain, because we developed more with Bridgestone back in the day. I love wet racing more than anything else.’Verstappen – like Hamilton a brilliant wet-weather driver, the pair sharing 11 world titles – was keener to lay the blame on the 50-50 combustion/electric engines, which he hates, rather than on his fellow drivers.’The problem is it is very complex,’ said the Dutchman. ‘I just hope the next rule reset is easier. That you can just start the car and drive off like it should be or used to be.’You should be able to go out, have a brake pedal and throttle pedal, and that is what is deciding the lap time.’As for the last word on the debacle, we return to Hamilton.’Is it riskier?’ he asked. ‘Absolutely.’That’s how it should be when you earn up to £80million a year to do what the rest of us couldn’t do, and Lewis got the point, and made it well.