On the schumacher and Kobi penalties. both were unnecessary and interfered with the race.
Really? I thought both were well deserved, of course they interfered with the race, their supposed to be a punishment.
Schumacher was well behind Kobayashi, and it looked like he under-estimated the DRS and just couldn't slow the car down. He even admitted fault for that himself.
Kobayashi also had a clearly unsafe release into an oncoming car.
Schumacher had a punishment, he lost his wing. Why deprive fans of a race by interfering. It was racing. this is motor racing and cars will touch.
Yes Kobi was released unsafely but that wasnt his fault. Take points off the team if you must but let Kobi race.
The FIA don't seem to accept incidental punishment, (like Alonso getting a time penalty when he ran into the back of Hamilton despite having to pit). I guess its so they can point out they have acted and punished, they need to send a message.
I don't agree they should say, lets not interfere, its their job to try and correct matters when someone races by breaking the rules, otherwise rule breaking has a greater reward to risk ratio, and more drivers start to do it etc.
I'm not sure if it was Kobayashi's fault or not, it looked like the lollipop man put the lollipop down again, and Kobayashi drove past it (not really sure though, only seen the incident once). But it doesn't matter, its a team sport, it wasn't a personal fine, it was against the car rather than him. So it was a team centred punishment, because the team is based around getting good results from the car.
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I haven't watched the Massa-Lewis incident in detail, but I still think its Massa's responsibility there to find a safe way around Lewis, all Lewis has to do is not turn into him when they're side by side.
ah well, at least i didnt use the dancing guy smilie
you could tell Alonso was even teary eyed...