Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
I am finding it hard to believe they made an error. I think they wanted the result. With commentators speechless that they brought Lewis in from what seemed like a safe win position to change tyres with 10 laps to go, seemed an unbelievable error, especially for a meticulous team like mercedes. Hamilton was in no real threat from Vettel, especially if Vettel had pitted for fresh tyres which would have put him a few places back from 2nd position, probably behind Kvyat or Kimi. Overtaking being nearly impossible in Monaco between closely matched cars and the soft tyre was good to run the full race without adverse deg. So why in the world would anyone in their right mind take such a risk of pitting a car in a sure and relatively safe winning position.
There is serious doubt that this was an error.
While it is easy to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon, and I'd be the first to do so if I thought there was a one, I think this was a pure simple case of complete and utter brain fart. I still can't believe what we saw. It's the worst team decision I've ever witnessed in F1.

Can anyone think of something so outrageously stupid that matches this?

As for the Steward's I'm also going to nominate them for race donkey's as there was absolutely no consistency. Alonso got a penalty that he didn't deserve, Ricciardo didn't get a penalty which he did deserve and they penalize the wrong person for the Grosjean and Verstappen crash. Something has to be done about these stupid decisions that race Steward's are making. I think there's too much pull going on in F1 anyway. It's a small world and everyone knows everyone else. If the Steward's are too thick to see what is in front of them and read the data, then they should not be empowered to make these kind of decisions. There must be a better way than what they are doing now.