Quote Originally Posted by MentalParadox View Post
The Ostberg penalty was 100% the Italian stewards running defense for "their" team, Pirelli. They were already under fire for their crap tires in the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and now THIS happens. When the event is run by your compatriots, this can be exploited to silence your critics.
lol "100%", sure it is.
You know it's FIA stewards who decide these fines and not rally organizers, right? As if Italian organizers would care in the slightest if a driver swears in English or Norwegian, or if he insults a tyre manufacturer that happens to be Italian. Most Italians into motorsport don't even care about FIAT, go figure if they feel obliged to defend a tyre manufacturer by imposing fines.