Hungarian Grand Prix 2010, Hungaroring Circuit - Race 12/19
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he pulled over after the start of the move, so would have made no difference what side he went on.
Making it 4 weeks.. and way too long..
But good at the same time, 2 week factory shut down. then two weeks for Mclaren to scratch there head and plenty of time to rule on flexi wing and any other flexi part.
No tactical abilities. leaves all descions to the team.
It's against the rules.
Or do you want FIA to pick and choose which rules they enforce. Something which they have been heavily criticised for.
If true, it is a sensible clarification and the what I expected and hoped for.
MSC has also been found of braking rules and given a 10 place grid drop, how is that not concentrating on punishing those who needlessly push others of the track. Today was a step to far you can't stifle racing though. Which is why most of the time it is allowed. Also on the exit of a corner, you can not stop your car riding towards the outside.
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Trouble is it has never been consistent. Is it this year or last year change of leadership and driver stewards?, I forget, but I think it's only this year isn't it.
either way you should only compare it to punishments from this year or this year and last.
So would I but, you can't judge penalties with past penalties. The system has changed with an outlook of being more consistent. You have to give it a chance and see how it pans out.
why wouldn't vettle be punished?
IMO it was the move and the wall combined that made a punishment.
I can only think of one other move remotely similar and that was vettle vs webber, which of course was the same team. But even that was not the same, webber had plenty of room to manoeuvre. Similar swerve, but there was plenty of track left. If it was against someone else, then he probably would have been punished. But of course, RBR aren't going to lodge a complaint.
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It was not deliberate, he was caught napping. Nothing like the same. That was stupid, but a racing inciedent.
There is a massive diffrence between closing the door and trying to put some one in the wall, they have set s presedence for the later.
racing and defending is certainly allowed as we have seen every other race.What is not aloud is far to much aggression. If you think that should be allowed, then there will never ever be any over taking as all the defending driver has to do is use their car as a weapon and go for it.
As we have seen from many drivers aggression, blocking and pushing is allowed, this crossed a fine line.
The Mercedes should have been faster in a straight line, he was keeping RB at bay very well. Until he made a mistake in tee last corner, that's what allowed RB to make that move. A balls up by MSC.
I don't agree with webber, it is clearly against the rules. Even though it passes scrutineering. hence FIA adding the scrutineering clause.
There own fault for being to greedy. If they kept the flex to a more reasonable amount, they would have been fine. Just like Ferrari, if they didn't communicate and Massa had a "mistake" they would have been fine.
Of course people are going to moan, we are talking 100's of millions per team.
I don't know why people keep saying in the spirit, it is just against the rules, the rules goes into flex and scruteenering can be changed at the FIAa whim if to much flex is observed.
There own fault for being to greedy. If they kept the flex to a more reasonable amount, they would have been fine. Just like Ferrari, if they didn't communicate and Massa had a "mistake" they would have been fine.
Of course people are going to moan, we are talking 100's of millions per team.
I don't know why people keep saying in the spirit, it is just against the rules, the rules goes into flex and scruteenering can be changed at the FIAa whim if to much flex is observed.
"leaked" that test weights will be doubled. How true that is we will have to wait.
FIA haven't really let them get away with it.
A) no one asked for clarification
B) it has been a progressive design and only in the last couple of races has been very noticeable.
There is no spirit of the rules, but there are rules clearly banning to much flex and rules allowing FIA to change test procedure.
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That is how these things work. if it passes scrutineering. it is up for teams to lodge their concerns. Which two teams now have, fia are now investigating and it is likely the scruiteneering will now be altered as per the regs.