Oh you hypocrite, every year you write a list of if's and buts where Jenson has lost points and when someone else mentions similar you spit the dummy.
They have cost Lewis far more points this year than Jenson and if that stat was reversed as usual you would mention it every 5 minutes.
I've always been a Jenson fan over Lewis but the facts speak for themselves in points lost. Last year is over I'm talking about this year. With Jenson out of the top 10 he had a real chance to bury some points tomorrow and the team blew it for him.
well its strange how in nearly every post you always want to stress how LH is hard done by, yet you are a JB fan - yeah right
Nearly every single mechanical failure for JB is forgotten about (or ****-up's by the team like the wheel at Silverstone), yet you go "on and on" about how it was only LH's own crashes that caused him to be beaten by his team mate last season
The fact that JB could have won two races this season instead of one (and as yet Lewis has failed to win any from 3 1st row positions) had the pitcrew not ***** up in China
It wasnt McLaren's choice to start him from the back of the grid today - whether it was a tactical choice, or a fueler mistake, (and whether Lewis knew about it or not) it cant exactly be certain that Lewis would have had a great race in the first place
Yet you dont ever stress how its just unfair - its always in relation to JB
Maybe you should try and post something less biased, and then I wouldnt have to pont out the obvious errors you are making (in nearly every post)
I also agree that this rule should apply to the race as well as qualifying, as that is where the points are awarded, therefore it is more important than qualifying.
Unfortunately we must accept this and move on.
Impossible to apply it to the race, and that would be completely unfair if they tried imo
Its fair enough teams should be able to manage to work out 3 laps of fuel exactly without adding extra weight (for qualifying) - magnifying the situation for 60 laps, with possibility of safety car's and everything else that can increase /decrease fuel usage and penalising them for less than a lap after the flag, that would be mightily petty imo
I was under the impression Jensen's car was fine to finish but they knew he had to change something that would have caused a grid place penalty for changing at the next race.
IE if the car pulls out of the race due to gearbox failure, they can put a new gearbox in for the next race without getting a 5 grid penalty for doing it AT the next race.
It's basically cheating, they decided it was better to give up a couple of points(due to a poor performance mostly) from Jenson, than to get a few points and a penalty at the next race.
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I understand that impression to be completely wrong
JB (with the technical issue apparant after having a pitstop to check it out) didnt have the pace to complete the last ~10 or so laps in the points, he would have been overtaken (as he was anyway he lost a place on the single lap before retiring), given the lack of pace both McLaren's had that race even when working well.
I think SV has already done similar this season (or one of the top teams retired a car before the end to save a penalty next race) - its team management, its not cheating at all. Its not like McLaren have an illegal device on their car or something.
In the case of gear boxes (as per your example) - remember every car/driver has a given number of gear boxes for the season, does it matter whether 1 lasts a single race as long as his remaining allocation get him through the remaining races without having to use an additional gear box? If anything it shows how good the boxes are in general if each of the remaining ones manages to complete additional race (s) to make up for the faulty one that failed.