Austrian Grand Prix 2016, Spielberg - Race 9/21

Apparently Lewis tyres were 7 laps old when they put them on his car for the last stint, yet he had new ones available. Is there any reason that doing this would be advantageous?
 
Ok, the 10 place grid penalty was hopelessly optimistic.

He actually gets....

*drumroll*


10 second penalty and 2 penalty points on his license.

A complete and utter non-penalty. Changes nothing.
 
10 second penalty and a reprimand, ric was more than 10 seconds behind so it's a pointless penalty, what a joke!
 
A penalty is meant to penalise the offending driver. How does 10s and 2 points on license penalise Nico? Clueless stewards.
 
A penalty that causes no inconvenience isn't a penalty. I though the point was to make drivers worse off than if they hadn't tried cheating in the first place. That way they wouldn't be tempted to get unfair advantage, because getting caught would mean being in a worse position than driving within the rules. Now the stewards are saying you might as well give it a go, as you won't actually be punished for it.

I wonder what Toto is going to say, because last time it was "the stewards found it a racing incident, just one of those things, no one at fault". This time the stewards found Rosberg publicly guilty of crashing into his team mate to drive him off the track, gave him a meaningless punishment that at least publicly acknowledged his cheating behaviour.
 
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Lewis drives the wrong side of a cone and gets a reprimand. Rosberg intentionally tries to take another driver out of a Grand Prix, causing significant damage to both cars, then proceeds to block the same driver trying to get back on the track, before driving around in a heavily damaged car... And gets a reprimand...

:rolleyes:
 
It's because they are both from the same team. If it was different teams with people screaming blue murder, you can bet the punishment would be much more.
 
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And they wonder why people are tuning out.
Once again FIA are making what should be the absolute pinnacle of racing into a laughing stock.
 
Looking over the previous penalties this year for causing a collision it has been punished with a 10 sec penalty and points on the licence, or a three place grid drop and penalty points, so at least it's consistent.

I'd have thought though, that given a 10 second penalty = no actual difference to his race position they'd have gone with a three place drop next race.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Is it possible they take into account what happened to him based on his actions? As in, he already lost 2 places because of it?

(I'm not saying it's right, just is it a factor?)
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They do in general do this and they shouldn't, and they do it rather arbitrarily. Different stewards at every race is a joke, this is a sport, it's the equivalent of picking random people out of the crowd to be a referee in World Cup games. It's unprofessional, leads to people who don't really have a genuine job and means people consistently interpret the rules differently. One race this incident gets a DQ, another a inconsequential 10 second penalty.

For instance if Hamilton's car had been damaged of failed to finish and Rosberg had won they might have torn him a new one regardless of them being team mates and Merc obviously not pushing for it. Had Ham continued but come 5th and Rosberg continued and come 3rd, maybe they'll have created a situation in which Rosberg ends up 8-10th.

That it's so arbitrary and inconsistent does my nut in. Even the penalty itself, one race you give 10 second penalty and it does nothing, another race finishes under safety car and you go from first to 12th with a 10 second penalty. How is the rule not, drop you 2 places, or 5 places, depending on the severity of the incident. If you do the same thing you should lose the same number of places. It's all stupid.
 
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