Buttttt if McLaren where thinking about letting Kimi through again, they must have thought Lewis' move would be seen as a bit suspicious?
You are just grasping for straws now - its obvious after so many dubious calls against them McLaren arent going to throw away a race win for the sake of double checking, as it was obvious Kimi's tyres where shot (temp wise)
McLaren where only trying to avoid this actual circumstance, and due to incompetance they are in it anyway
CW may not be an official steward, but as he has been Race Director for a lot longer than these stewards have been in place, he knows the rules better than anyone
Its a complete shambles - and its only complete novices or biased fans/team officials who think otherwise
NO drive through penalty has ever been applied if the position was given back immediately - which it clearly was, similar incidents happen frequently and the car that has been disadvantaged immediately takes over and they start racing again (and rarely is there even an investigation unless for some reason the position isnt clearly given back - whcih from numerous videos is clearly NOT the case here)
The Kenyan steward spoke out saying that he was just doing his job blah blah. It's on Autosport.
To be honest he sounds like he isn't a bad fellow and I doubt he would turn around and say "I didn't say it was OK" if McLaren wanted a witness.
Depends what side his bread has been buttered doesnt it - Im not sure though that teams can talk directly to stewards, if CW KNEW it to be an ok move, with his experience in the job, would he check (Im not blaming him for a second, as his experience is more likely correct) - I very much doubt he would check, would you in his position - without 20/20 hindsight?
In the same article:
He added: "We had a choice to mete out a time penalty or 10 grid places in the next grand prix race. We opted for the former and handed a time penalty of 25 seconds.
The other thing I think personally is that surely the stewards penalised McLaren too heavily either way - at the end of the day no one else got affected (as Kimi was out anyway), but the stewards STILL insist on comprehensively altering the Championship , when Ferrari as a team where not affected and neither where Massa or Heidfeld , and yet they all benefit financially and in the Champ GAURENTEED when a grid slot (even around a twisty circuit like Monza) wouldnt affect anyone apart from Hamilton
If however the safety implications of not being able to change a damaged or badly worn tyre outweighed the safety of a reduced grip tyre then its sensible to change the regs back.
