Donkey of the Race - Spa

[steveaki13]

Vote time again

[N4D13]

Got to say Lotus for their double DNF.

[Koz]

Merc for leaving Hammy out.

[pino]

Mercedes for keeping Lewis on track

[steveaki13]

Some of todays Donkey's

Massa - Did I miss something? 13th in a Williams

Lotus - Terrible car and again breaking down.

Vettel - He has had some bad luck, but he was battling for a lead on the first lap and ends 40 odd seconds behind Daniel?

Rosberg - He drove a decent recovery race, and although it was a racing incident it was a clumsy one and he has bought himself some issues within the team this evening.

[AndyL]

Massa - Did I miss something? 13th in a Williams

I don't know what happened with Massa. He was way off the pace during the first half of the race. His pace was OK later on, but the damage had been done.

[Ranger]

Massa - Did I miss something? 13th in a Williams

Commentators said he had debris removed from his car during a pitstop - by then it was too late.

Donkey has to be Ferrari for a professional foul at the start. They are pretty lucky it was only 5 seconds but it was pretty costly.

Rosberg gets an honourable mention but it was a fairly clumsy racing incident - although he was at fault.

[steveaki13]

Donkey has to be Ferrari for a professional foul at the start. They are pretty lucky it was only 5 seconds but it was pretty costly.

Rosberg gets an honourable mention but it was a fairly clumsy racing incident - although he was at fault.

I agree about Nico

I also agree that the Penalty is pretty lenient.

I remember back in the early 2000s in particular cars getting 10 second actual stop and go penalties for this. Now its just a 5 second add on? Wow

[N4D13]

Donkey has to be Ferrari for a professional foul at the start. They are pretty lucky it was only 5 seconds but it was pretty costly.

It's rather hard to blame Ferrari for that. They were quite lucky - Alonso's car wouldn't start but they managed to get it running during the start, which meant that he wouldn't have to start from the pitlane. A 5-second penalty is nothing compared to what he would have had to endure had he been forced to start from the pitlane. So I'd actually congratulate Ferrari on their swift reaction rather than blame them.

Edit: and yes, the penalty was too lenient. I expected a drive-through, and there's also the fact that starting a car's engine during the warm-up lap and having the driver overtake during it doesn't really come across as a really sensible thing to do. I would expect the rules to become much more stringent in the future to avoid a repeat of situations like this.

[Hawkmoon]

Not really a donkey but Vettel got his arse handed to him again. Three wins to zero for the Aussie over his quadruple world champion teammate.