Poll: Austrian Grand Prix 2018, Spielberg - Race 9/21

Rate the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix out of ten


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Bottas
Hamilton
Raikkonen
Verstappen
Grosjean
Vettel - 3 place penalty
Ricciardo
Magnussen
Sainz
Hulkenberg
Ocon
Gasly
Alonso
Stroll
Vandoorne
Perez
Sirotkin
Leclerc - 5 place gearbox penalty
Hartley
Ericsson
 
What scared her? :eek: Crazy people..





While the reality is that it is a small miracle by Sebastian that he somehow still manages to stay in the competition.
Don't forget how the season started in Australia with tremendous point six of a second commanding lead in the qualifying alone.

https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/979/australia/qualifying.html

Could also try to remember how he was handed the win in that race from a VSC and a huge screw up from Merc's strategy team in what kind of gap they needed. Also the luck of both Haas's tires coming off to enable the safety cars to let him pit, without that he finishes what was it going to be, 4th?
 
Liberty media must be really hell-bent on having a British champion this year.

Where is the consistency on giving penalties for ruining people's laps?

Can name quite a few times others have gotten away with it with no penalties.
 
Because it's Liberty Media in the stewards room right?

Sainz comes flying around a blind corner and has to go off track to avoid a crash, because Vettel is day dreaming on the racing line at a crawl.

You can't just let that go.

Did I say he wasn't in the wrong? I'm questioning why if this is penalty worthy then why haven't previous incidents not been?

:rolleyes:
 
I was going to argue that this one was different as it might have resulted in contact and therefore a penalty might be warranted, but then if Hartley wasn't punished for the Baku Q1 horrific near miss with Gasly then I don't see why Vettel was here.
 
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The puncture isn't what caused Hartley to slew around the track in a dangerous way, it was his inputs on the steering wheel, as he admitted.

Until now I've not seen anyone attempt to defend what is one of the most idiotic and potentially dangerous moves in modern top-tier motor-racing.


"Hartley was going slowly, as he'd hit the wall and punctured his front-left tyre, and Gasly had to take evasive action to avoid a massive accident, ending up down the escape road."

"Hartley admitted he was at fault for the incident, but he was unaware that Gasly was on a flying lap and was catching him so quickly."

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/135656/hartley-apologises-for-cary-gasly-incident

Vettel was way to slow and on the racing line. What Vettel got was lucky in my opinion.
 
"Hartley was going slowly, as he'd hit the wall and punctured his front-left tyre, and Gasly had to take evasive action to avoid a massive accident, ending up down the escape road."

"Hartley admitted he was at fault for the incident, but he was unaware that Gasly was on a flying lap and was catching him so quickly."

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/135656/hartley-apologises-for-cary-gasly-incident

Vettel was way to slow and on the racing line. What Vettel got was lucky in my opinion.
What you failed to mention is that Hartley hadn't hit the barrier in the previous corner, but the one before that, coming out of the castle section. He had several hundred metres to get off the racing line yet for some unfathomable reason was still on it! The puncture wasn't why he was in the middle of the track - he was still in control of the car, as he vividly showed when he nearly made it worse when Gasly tried to avoid to the inside, only for Hartley to go the same way.

There were no excuses for it, yet in what was one of F1's biggest near misses the stewards decided not to penalise him (Gasly failed to make Q2 for the record). I merely question how Hartley wasn't penalised for what was a far more dangerous move than Vettel's?
 
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