Caporegime
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Yes this argument about punishing poor driving with gravel traps and the like is just completely ridiculous, because both we frequently had races which ended up with 10 cars and they were all miles apart, and the people who ended up in gravel traps were often...... people who got shoved off by others. to presume that only people who make mistakes end up off the track is absurd. Is it fair if a driver screws up a dive up the inside, bumps you, they go on and finish the race and you end up in a gravel trap? More over if you're a fan who has come across the planet to watch a race and watch your favourite driver get knocked out 5 laps into a race while the guy who did it finishes and gets points, in a race with no action because half the cars have gone off... how is that good for the fans?
What we have now is, a guy spins and ends up in a run off area and gets back in the race will still lose a hefty chunk of time so they get penalised. Now if someone gets shoved off the track, the person can come back on and the person who shoved them off might get a 5 second to a drive through penalty. In either case that means more cars in the race, more potential action and far fewer cars being unfairly knocked out of races.
Anyone who thinks punishing gravel traps were good for F1 is mental. Less cars, less going on and loads of entirely innocent mistake free drivers being punted out of races was never at all a good thing for F1.
Regardless it's a cheap interview from Vettel, he doesn't say what is wrong, what's the expensive regulation that is there just for the regulation? Also which sport wasn't always a business massively, none is the answer. He gets paid 40mil a year, yet is now playing the omg... does it have to be a business. Yeah, if you were asking for 1million a year then the team could spend less, run more cheaply, they could charge less tickets, the value of the company would be lower and Liberty wouldn't be as desperate to make more money. Nothing like hypocrisy to make me lose respect for someone.
F1 has always been about large sweeping regulation changes to throw a spanner in the works and shake up the order. The 2009 regulations changed the order in his favour, the 2014 regulations changed the order in Mercedes favour, the 2017 regulations favoured Ferrari but his own blundering has cost him at least one, maybe two titles already. After Italy in 2017 Hamilton was a massive 3 points ahead of Vettel, and Vettel had pole in Singapore and then handed Hamilton 25 points.
Now all of a sudden under pressure from Leclerc he's talking about leaving because F1 is too much of a show? lol.
