Poll: United States Grand Prix 2017, Austin - Race 17/20

[Irish_Tom]

Hamilton could well match shumachers most wins in a season. Impressive stuff.

He can only get 12 if he wins all the final races no? Doesn’t that leave him one short?

 

[Flibster]

And for the next rant we go over to Jos Verstappen on twitter....

This is *REDACTED*. Sorry. This sucks

Shame on you FIA

Obviously F1 don’t now what racing s

Only Max get,s a penalty when he cross the line Nobody else the hole weekend

 

[GodAtum]

can anyone explain why red bull cant contest?

 

[Kenai]

Interesting to look at the times, Kimi obviously slowed as the 5 second penalty only put Max slightly behind him. I wonder if he'd slowed even more whether the penalty would be 10 seconds?

 

[Irish_Tom]

EJ makes some good points about Max’s comments but you can understand why he’s so frustrated.

 

[Steampunk]

can anyone explain why red bull cant contest?

It's in the rules. Decisions are final.

 

[RSR]

So Bottas does the same to Max and there is no penalty, Max does the same and gets a 5 second penalty WTF FIA.....

 

[Flibster]

can anyone explain why red bull cant contest?

Time penalties and drive throughs etc can't be protested.

 

[neil_g]

There's hardly a highlight clip being shown where a car doesn't exceed the track limits.

Where's the consistency.

 

[deuse]

So Bottas can go off the track with no penalty, but max gets one. The fia protecting ferrari again

 

[lunarwolf]

Passing with all 4 off track. Lol to the ones saying it was OK. if it happened to you on track, you would be outraged, and rightfully so

Glad the FIA called it before the podium

Great drive from Max nonetheless

Pity for Alonso, Hulk and Ricciardo. Wonder where Ricciardo would have finished? The RBR had really good race pace

Also congrats for Sainz, and a great fight with Ocon. Good for the future

Kyv did well to get some points, and maybe save his drive - but TBH without others misfortunes he would not have been in the points - but he was there to capitalize

 

[RSR]

Hmmmmm

 

[Steampunk]

There's hardly a highlight clip being shown where a car doesn't exceed the track limits.

Where's the consistency.

When you go wide and lose time, no one really cares. When you cut across the track limits and make an overtake on the inside that you otherwise couldn't, and the other guy's team protests because a podium is at stake, you're going to be on thin ice.

 

[neil_g]

Passing with all 4 off track. Lol to the ones saying it was OK. if it happened to you on track, you would be outraged, and rightfully so

When everyone was doing it all weekend unpenalised, you have to agree it's a little inconsistent to penalise max?

 

[MM-Seat]

When everyone was doing it all weekend unpenalised, you have to agree it's a little inconsistent to penalise max?

In FP3, they stated that they had relaxed rules on track limits coming out of specific turns on the track. As far as I could see, no one apart from Max used this to overtake another car?

 

[KiNgPiN83]

They either need to enforce the track limits everywhere for everyone or build in a physical deterant like grass or gravel to slow them down like the old days. There’s no penalty for getting it wrong on a lot of tracks. Get it wrong and just use the get out of jail free run off...

 

[RoboCod]

It was a cut corner, can't really dispute it

This. Suck it up, thems the rules.

Did anyone else see a giant eagle shadow across the track during the race?

When everyone was doing it all weekend unpenalised, you have to agree it's a little inconsistent to penalise max?

They were? Who?

 

[this_is_gav]

So Bottas does the same to Max and there is no penalty, Max does the same and gets a 5 second penalty WTF FIA.....

Bottas didn't. He took a longer line. Verstappen cut the corner and was the only one to overtake cutting a corner all race.

It was disappointing, especially the way it was done post-race, but even the split opinion here, normally pro-Verstappen, shows there's two ways of looking at it.

Coulthard made a good point after the race - why is there even so much space on the inside of that corner to allow it? There's no safety justification, it's just a stupid sea of kerbs and tarmac.

All said Kimi was silly for even giving Verstappen the chance to overtake. Just turn in a bit earlier and there wouldn't have been space for Max.

 

[Flibster]

I can't think of a single other person this weekend who cut the INSIDE of the corner. Running wide, ok, there were many who did that. But cutting the inside of the corner, no.

And Verstappen has called the stewards retards... That'll go down as well as a turd sandwich.

 

[steve45]

Verstappen has called the stewards retards... That'll go down as well as a turd sandwich.

He's right though... Just saying. But then I'm still of the opinion that all track limits should be enforced at all times (except maybe first corner/lap)