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Tough one to call.
50-50
Perhaps a tad too harsh, TBH, as he was slightly ahead as they were side by side.
Don't understand why there isn't normal turf round that part of the track. I suppose the GPDA complained about dirt and crap being brought onto the racing line :rolleyes:
Aha. Check Heiki in the penultimate lap, slowed trough the chicane, didn't pass Triulli, no problem, no penalty.
Lewis passed Vettel. Should have let him go ahead of him.
I would prefer to have seen a camera angle outside of Hamilton's cockpit before making final judgement but I'm guessing the stewards have access to that footage and made the appropriate call.
I think the penalty was fair even though Hamilton most likely would have held onto the position.
If you pass and then don't make the next chicane,
It is arguably because you hadn't braked early enough to stay on track!
Kinda sucks as passing is so difficult in F1
Very fair. This is yet more proof that Lewis just doesn't have the mindset of a champion. A better driver would have let Vettel past and have had him on the next lap but Lewis didn't do it and paid for it...... Tunnel vision gets you nowhere kiddo.
You took the words out of my keyboard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Hamilton was being stupid again and paid the penalty. Deserved.
On balance, yeah. If he had slowed enough to make the corner, he wouldn't have made the pass. So he gained/held a place ONLY by cutting the corner, so he "gained an advantage" by cutting the corner, so, yeah, pretty much exactly what the rule is designed for.
What he SHOULD have done is given the place back - he could almost certainly have taken the car again, fair & square, given their relative levels of performance, so it was a boneheaded call to hold it.
Nothing short of what I was expecting from Lewy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Somebody
But what about the team? What the hell were they thinking? That they will not be penalized because they already got some penalties?! :rolleyes:
According to Brundle that decision would most likely have been down to the team after they'd spoken by radio to the FIA, if that is indeed the case you cant exactly blame Lewis personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
It may be down to an interpretation of the rules but overall I agree with the decision, technicaly he may well have been past Vetel by the time he left the track but that is an extremely bad precedent to set imo..
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
They were side by side, Lewis had the outside line for the first part of the chicane, makes a slight error into the second part and goes off the track.
Brundle called it 50-50
what if Lewis/McLaren got away with it? Giving the place back to Vettel would've slightly hampered his charge through the field.
Not that I'm Lewis-lover, the stewards have made error judgements before so I'm wondering how they made the decision. It's going to be interesting how this all unravels!