Ari
30th April 2009, 01:10
I hate to bring up old news but this one just blew me away.
Force India team manager Andy Stevens:
But the stewards insisted the team should have instructed Sutil to get out of Webber's way.
"In my mind, the timescale that we had to do that was too short," said Stevens.
"So I feel the penalty was very, very harsh."
He added that Webber had seemed sanguine about the incident, and suggested that the officials should not have been involved.
"When you look at the times from Webber as well, he probably wouldn't have made it through to Q2 anyway," Stevens said.
"It was a bit of sour grapes, I believe, on Red Bull's part.
"I believe these things should be kept out of the stewards' rooms and we look after it ourselves.
"We had dealt with it with Mark and he was quite happy that it was an innocent circumstance, but the stewards got involved."
http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=45735
Do we still have public stonings? This guy's on drugs. Yes I see the double entendre.
The reason the times for Webber were, at that point, so poor is that he'd not actually put in a fast qualli lap.
Webber Quali Australia: 8th
Webber Quali Malysia: 7th
Webber Quali China: 3rd
Webber Quali Bahrain: 19th
Force India team manager Andy Stevens:
But the stewards insisted the team should have instructed Sutil to get out of Webber's way.
"In my mind, the timescale that we had to do that was too short," said Stevens.
"So I feel the penalty was very, very harsh."
He added that Webber had seemed sanguine about the incident, and suggested that the officials should not have been involved.
"When you look at the times from Webber as well, he probably wouldn't have made it through to Q2 anyway," Stevens said.
"It was a bit of sour grapes, I believe, on Red Bull's part.
"I believe these things should be kept out of the stewards' rooms and we look after it ourselves.
"We had dealt with it with Mark and he was quite happy that it was an innocent circumstance, but the stewards got involved."
http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=45735
Do we still have public stonings? This guy's on drugs. Yes I see the double entendre.
The reason the times for Webber were, at that point, so poor is that he'd not actually put in a fast qualli lap.
Webber Quali Australia: 8th
Webber Quali Malysia: 7th
Webber Quali China: 3rd
Webber Quali Bahrain: 19th